I would love to say that it had something to do with my work, but it doesn’t, I have a boyfriend, and if I’m being completely honest, no one likes to be not toned when you are dating someone.”

Kelly Clarkson

Ok ok I get it you meet someone, you start to date, you want to feel flirty, and sexy and alluring so you might start to do the things that maybe you should have been doing all along, like maybe eating better, or working out. SO I can’t be mad but…

What I find interesting that she didn’t feel the need to lose weight for the industry in order to fit into their cookie cutter mold which I applauded her for. She has an authentic talent, a big voice that doesn’t really require auto tune, or the bells and whistles of push up bras and dancing in panties, front lace wigs and flailing back up dancers as camouflage. She is the type of performer who can just stand and belt out a song and move you to tears. I think that she gets that so she was like “accept me as  I am”  she got that she, as she was, was enough and she stayed chunky. It was a win for all the talented women who don’t look like “real women”.

So now to hear that she got a boyfriend and then decided lose weight makes me go hummm.  I hope that it was not because she felt inadequate or did it because she is afraid that she will loss him, I mean the reality is he started dating her when she was fuller so he must have liked it. On the other hand maybe it was the boost of endorphins made her want to be better, that I get.  Either way I think she looks great and if she is healthier for it, all the better.