Now when I first found this I was like “awww” because t’ruth be told she does inspire a lot of full figure women and I felt a bit woeful that she would try to distance herself from that reality. Well you have to watch the interview to see to see that it’s not so deep. Actually I think that mainly it was because the interviewer, Sun-Herald Fashion Editor Kate Waterhouse was so inept. Her, trite and insipid questions were the likes of what we hear all of the time and I am sure that Hendricks was sick of them too. The phasing of the the “full figured” faux pas was clumsy and came out of left field with a curve, I can see how and why she was taken aback. I do think that Hendricks id proud of her body and in inconspicuous benefit of helping women of a certain size feel good about themselves but like all of us, there are days when you just don’t want that to be the focus… Can we move on?
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WKBT anchor Jennifer Livingston Addresses Email about her Weight- Bullying is NOT OK!
After a viewer (well not even) wrote an email telling WKBT anchor Jennifer Livingston that she was a bad example to little girls because of her weight Livingston took to the airwaves to give him a piece of her mind, and told him that his email amounted to bullying. She so eloquently let HIM HAVE IT! What think is so interesting is the fact that for a long time news anchors and weather girls were supposed to look like sitting Barbie Dolls, pretty women who could read and point at a map, they were not allowed to be flawed or old (or bald) like their male counterparts, they needed to good at their jobs and be attractive. Well times are changing and there is greater diversity in the field which has allowed for different ages (or for female anchors to age) and be racially diverse yay! They can even work through their pregnancies (probably because that counter cuts off the image of their expanding waistlines) oh but wait, they still have to be attractive (I forgot). The diversity that is so wonderful that allows people of color to tell you what’s going on in the world also extends a person’s weight. Personally I like the fact that you can turn on your local news and see a person who looks like you Mom (maybe) or just a real woman addressing you. If this dude took 2 minutes to think about it he would have realized that there is a chubby girl out there who would love to be on television giving the news who upon seeing Jennifer Livingston believes that THAT can be a reality for you. Hey buddy that knife cuts both ways!!! Check out Livingston’s response PRICELESS!
“I’m Fat Get Over It” Xtina says to Record Exes! (LOVE THAT!)
Christina Aguilera has had her ups and downs, and not just with her weight, she went from being a squeaky clean Disney star to a raunchy half dressed writhing soul singer, to mother, divorcee, to tipsy club guest, to the full figured judge on the hit she The Voice. It seems that all is forgivable, all except getting fat. When ever the blue eyed soul singer gets photographed it is her waistline and healthy booty that is the focus. However this does not deter her from wearing form strangling clothes. She is thick and happily unapologetic about it. Recently she gave the skinny on the record industry and how they control female singer’s images (their weight) and how much it is a part of their ability to present what is supposed to be the point—their art.
She told Billboard.
“During the promotion of my album Stripped [in 2002, left], I got tired of being a skinny, white girl, I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.”
Truth be told even though her name is obviously Latin, how many of us thought she was your average corn feed WASP when she first came out? Remember she hit before it was chic to be Latina. We all know that the industry is known for white washing people, it was more shocking to think that this all American girl could sing like a Black woman who grew up in a Baptist church (Because we all know that all Black people learn to sing in the church wink wink)
“I had gained about 15 pounds during promotion and during my Stripped tour [with Justin Timberlake]. “They called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash about my weight. Basically, they told me I would affect a lot of people if I gained weight — the production, musical directors.”
Ok so her weight would affect a lot of people….humm well I can kind of get that because it’s so clear that when Barack Obama’s weight goes up unemployment reflects that!
She says the record company said “people I toured with would also miss out if I gained weight because I would sell no records or tickets for my shows.” She adds. “I was young, so I lost the weight quickly and was toothpick thin during Back to Basics promos and touring.”
It’s sad to think that grown men and women are manipulating young vulnerable girls who want to have music careers. Pimps they are pimps I tell you! The other thing that gets my goat is the fact that they didn’t bring in support for her to get “it under control” but just to tell her that she is fat and she has to to something about it or people will lose their jobs is just ill! It reminds me of the dance world. hummm. And the reality is she was probably just EATING and put on the weight that she had starved to keep off.
“I told them during this Lotus recording [her new album], ‘You are working with a fat girl. Know it now and get over it.’ They need a reminder sometimes that I don’t belong to them. It’s my body,” she says.
“My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore — my body is just not on the table that way anymore.”
Now this is what I call a REVOLUTION! see… (sorry I know I keep taking digs at Gaga but it’s hard not to– I’ll get over it—soon)
Street Style From Fashion Week Milano
So It is Fashion Week in Milano, and the streets are teeming with the uber-fashionable. Fashionlogie.com (click here to see more images) gives us a taste of what the editors, buyers, and people in the industry are wearing. I decided to post a few pics of some of the models on the street just to give you a taste of what the bodies are looking like this season. Now you have to remember that Vogue Italia Editor in Chief Franca Sozzani has been very out spoken about the websites promoting anorexia and the too thin models that grace the pages of fashion magazines (including her own). But judging from the streets Skeleton frames are still en Vogue… What do you think?
Franca Sozzani Editor in Chief of Vogue Italia
And now For the Body Exploitation Moment of the Day- Brazil’s BumBum Pageant
hosted by Huffington Post
Brazil is gearing up for the “Miss Bum Bum” pageant, a nationwide contest to find the best butt in the country.
The nation’s cutest derriere will be chosen out of 27 competitors, one from each of Brazil’s Federative Units. Online voting will determine 15 finalists, who will travel to São Paolo in November for the “grand finale.”
“[Brazilians] definitely have a thing with butts,” said Brazilian Graciela Murano, writer and editor for Oddee, noting that “bumbum” is the word most commonly used in Brazil to refer to someone’s rear end.
UGH, JUST UGH!.
What Not to Wear host Stacy London struggles with an Eating Disorder
This is What not to DO. Stacy London has made her name for her self by helping people dress better and more appropriately for there lives, age and sizes. Recently she came out and admitted that she had an eating disorder:
“I felt like I’d never had a serious boyfriend and I really wanted to be attractive.”
This is the part that make me upset. Once again it is this concept of 1) being attractive for a man 2) trying to fit into a male/media defined standard of female beauty and 3) the feelings of inadequacy that comes with not being in a relationship. The first thing I want women to understand is that yes of course the way you look does have something to do with whether or not you are with someone, but it’s probably not the only (or even the main reason). Take a look around, there are all types of people in relationships: thin, thick, fat, super fine, and strange looking, rich, poor, unemployed people with children and without. The way you look is just a part of it, and starving yourself or working out to death may not solve the “problem” (although you might meet a cutie at the gym). The man (or the desired partner) is only half of the equation, remember you have to be into the people who are into you! Sometimes when women say “nobody is attracted to me” that is often code for “I am not attracted to the people who are attracted to me”. In addition, the most attractive thing on a women or man is confidence, and doing your personal work is paramount, working to become the person you would want to date might help you attract the person you want to be involved with.
At her lowest London 5’7″ and only 90 pounds, hospitalized she began to eat again, which resulted in binge eating to mask her self-doubt this boomeranged her to 180 lbs doubling her weight. she chronicles her journey in (you got it!) a new book The Truth About Style.
She said:
“When you can talk about something and shine light on it, you’re obliterating shame. And that to me was always the really hard part – to feel so filled with shame and having no recourse to thinking it could get better. [M]y value doesn’t simply come from [being thin]. It comes from me and solely from me. It took me a long time to recognize that.”
I’m sure being in the industry, and more specifically being on a show that dresses what the fashion world calls “normal” bodies didn’t help her disorder. And just one more thing, I used to be hooked on What not to Wear, but phrases like “Hide your flaws, play up your assets and make you feel good.” If we can somehow change the perspective on what “body flaws” are pooches, saddlebags, fuller arms, big booties, and “extra” weight in general maybe we can shift this whole body image game! (just a thought)
Salma Hayek Weighs in on how she keeps her Curves in Balance
There are SO many reasons to love Salma Hayek, even though she is married to a billionaire who is the CEO of luxury-brands firm PPR, which handles Gucci, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta and Stella Mccartney it could be easy to hate her and her closet. But there is something so girlfriend-y about her, so down to earth that you feel like you could meet for coffee or a cocktail and just hang. Well she recently she was reported talking about how she keeps her curves from spilling over so to speak:
“I’m not a skinny girl. I push it. I’m at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I’m happy at all times. Everybody has a weakness (and) mine is food. If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.”
I SO GET THAT! I have a few pieces of clothing (pants, a dress, and skirts) that have NO stretch that I use to “keep myself in check”. T’ruth be told we ALL know when we have been over indulging or when we are in the “hormone zone” and we are what I like to call “fluffy”, or for the latter literally “puffy”. These are the items that I slip on (or tug up) to assess the “damage” and to see just when I need to reel it in. If I can get them on and they are snug, well then I might have one more week of indulgence, but if there is no hope I have to drop the fork, back AWWWWAAAY from the table so no one will get hurt (namely me!) Personally I avoid scales because numbers are a head game for me but it’s basically the same principle. It’s nice to know that I am not alone in that sort of monitoring….
But ya gotta love Salma for helping to make the rest of us mere mortals not look completely nuts- but more normal (which still may be a bit whacked!)
Maybe it’s Adele should start A Body Revolution (actually she already has!)
On rival musicians out there who more or less rely on their sex appeal to sell music:
“I’ve seen them up close and they don’t even look like that [like in videos and magazines].Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don’t find it encouraging. I just stand there and sing. I’m not worried that I’m a ‘plus size’ and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like, the key is to be happy with yourself.”
Sometimes you just have to BE the revolution…
*note to GaGa
Lady Gaga 25lbs heavier and Starting a Body Revolution
Lady Gaga Got Chubby. It’s news. I have to say that I am not against women in the industry putting on weight and looking more like what they are naturally meant to look like. I love thick Christina, in fact I think that now she looks like herself, you know the self that she would look like were she not a pop star. When I see Dirty Christina, there is something about her skinny form that doesn’t look right, not in the fact that she was “too thin” but it just just doesn’t look natural. Her cherubic cheeks look right (do you know what I mean) now t’ruth be told I do think that she could go a size up in her clothes though (she could give a Azzedine Alaia dress stretch marks) but that’s just a matter of taste. I think her body looks healthy and womanly. So Gaga getting chunky doesn’t bother me. 
What does is that fact that media outlets have not only picked it up (as we knew they would) but it’s the way they are reporting it, calling her “Meaty” a reference not only to her weight but her costuming, some out and out called her fat, as if that in and of itself is an insult. That’s not cool, but neither is using something as serious and widespread as the Body image issue to self promote. This is what I question about her ‘A Body Revolution 2013’ – a project that aims “to celebrate ‘perceived flaws'”. It forms part of her larger Born This Way Foundation, which seeks to celebrate individuality and empower youth. It’s a great idea, and a relevant and necessary on however Ms. Lady Gaga The Revolution has already been televised, and printed, and sent over the radio airwaves, and over the internet.
True I am not a Gaga fan though I think that she is authentically talented, for me all the theatrics and what I perceive to be marketing ploys and antics obfuscates her talent. She does give good sound bite, and says all the right things (which makes me leery) mostly I just always feel like she’s up to something. I feel that she is disingenuous, and often seems to contradict herself, i.e. one moment she is saying that the media focuses too much on women’s bodies, and yet she runs around the streets half dressed.
As to her present antics, (because I think the photos she posted to launch her Body Revolution 2013 were antics) I think that is you are going to be the face and body of the cause you might want to rethink some of the things you present:
Gaga said in February 2011:
“I am on the drunk diet. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working.
“But the deal is I’ve got to work out every day, and I work out hungover if I am hungover.”
Earlier this year for implying she starves herself to say slim, tweeting:
“Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger. Pop singers don’t eat. I was born this way.”
*Sister if you were born naturally curvy then not eating to be thinner goes against your whole philosophy…no? Further more the statement (probably made quite spur of the moment and glibly) might well tell young aspiring performers that you don’t get to be a star by…eating….And where that may well be true, it’s not something to encourage especially when you are starting a “movement”.
Just this Month in Amsterdam during a concert she smoked a spliff and talked about loving to take a toke. She was quoted as telling The Sun newspaper::
“I want you to know it has totally changed my life and I’ve really cut down on drinking. It has been a totally spiritual experience for me with my music,” she says of smoking.
Am I nit picking but is that just trading one vice for another (page Dr. Drew)
I’m not saying that you have to be perfect to make a change but…it’s these sorts of things that have made me give The Gaga the side eye, and I’m not the only one.Spin.com asked the very question that popped into my head: Is she trying to promote an album? an a post entitled: Lady Gaga Strips to Promote Positive Body Image (And Maybe Her New Album) it charts all the orchestrated publicity that she has been doing lately. So is this seemingly altruistic “revolution” just a part of it?
To me she’s all about working the machine, pushing boundaries if and when it benefits her. She has modernized the 1980’s Madonna Method, albeit when Madonna was doing it, she was the first so we didn’t fell “manipulated” until years later. Now we are savvy and can see a marketing ploy coming a mile away. I’m glad to have a media powerhouse like GaGa in the trenches but why do I feel like I might have to watch my back?
What do you think?
Today I join the BODY REVOLUTION.
To Inspire Bravery.
and BREED some m$therf*cking COMPASSION
My mother and I created the BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION for one reason: “to inspire bravery.” This profile is an extension of that dream. Be brave and celebrate with us your “perceived flaws,” as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
In a portion of her open letter to her fans she remarks:
“My weight/loss/gain since i was child has tormented me. No amount of help has ever healed my pain about it. But YOU have. My boyfriend prefers me curvier, when i eat and am healthy and not so worried about my looks, I’m happy. Happier then I’ve ever been. i am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny. This is who I am. And I am proud at any size. And i love you, and want you to be proud in any form you may take as well. Please don’t look for kindness in critics, go where you know the gold is. Here, in out hearts. Love, Gaga.”
Everybody’s Favorite Kardashian (if you HAVE to Pick) Khole’s View on her Weight Loss
We all hate to say we watch them, although they are hard to avoid, but whether we like it or not the Kardasians are one of the most talked about bodies in the media and Khloe has always taken the brunt of the hits. She is the only one who is actually full grown adult size and has a fuller figure. But in true “Khloe” style she takes it in stride and is always grounded and brutally honest about comments from “haters”. Recently she stepped out (on yet another) red carpet at the MDA Labor Day Telethon in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, in a red dress and a slimmer figure. In past months she has been tweeting about her training sessions with celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson, and the results are clear. She looks great and here is what she said about it on Twitter:Last week, Khloe weighed in on weight loss via Twitter.
“Still get disgusted by how people judge others by weight. Either ‘fat’ or ‘skinny.’ Nothing is ever good enough,”
“Throwing stones behind a screen. If you must judge a person. Try judging their soul. My brick walls are getting higher and higher.”
“U can’t love any1 else until u know how to love urself first. The good, bad, ugly, beautiful…. Love yourself deeply. The rest is easy.”
Ok so I’m not trying to make her a 140 character guru but you have to admit that she is absolutely right. And with an attitude it probably makes both the process of getting in shape and the results something that you can own and therefore sustain. It must also be hard to stay on track being married to a mad snacker who loves sweets. I wonder if any of this has something to do with her and Lamar not doing their own reality show in order to get home more focused and back on track in his basketball career. More personal off camera time and space no doubt makes it easier to both have the time and focus to take care of yourself. When your daily life is a performance, it must be nearly impossible to keep a schedule and diet that has consistency and balance. Personally I think that she looks great and she sounds like she is in a good place!!