I have been so encouraged lately by the amount of celebrities in the entertainment industry who have finally found themseleves and their voices with it about the truth behind the unobtainable weight they have portrayed in the past. Stars who are saying they are going to be true to themselves and to their fans about who they really are. People just like you and just like me. Some are small and some are just not. It should have beens all about their talent not their weight! Stars are hitting back and saying "so I am bigger now, that's who I really am and always was! I did things to make myself a weight that was acceptable to other people but not to myself". Wow! That's what I'm talking about! Adele's undeniable talent was so huge her weight was secondary. Also, these days people are more likely to accept it than a decade ago when stars like Christina Aguilera started. The pressure to stay thin so she could show her talent was a must. One cannot imagine what she had to endure and go through to maintain that unatural state. To be taken seriously God only knows what she had to to do to stay thin to be recognised. If you're naturally thin then you're okay but if you're naturally bigger it's a problem because then you have to do unatural things to be a size that's not your own. Christina is said to have said that because she wears her hair blonde and her eyes are blue that people forget she is not of European descent with a body to match but that she is of South American descent and her body is naturally curvy. She is embracing her heritage and wearing her body. Wearing her skin. Other celebrities are starting to come out about feeling the same. Lady Gaga has been trying to make a point. The recent interest in her weight gain and back lash from that oh so irresponsible press prompted her to retaliate and say to people she was healthy now that she was the weight her body was naturally. That can't have been easy. It's like people morbidly prefer her unnaturally skinny but emotionally disoeriented with it rather than emotionally sstisfied and happy the weight she is - just as long as she looks perfect. People don't understand anymore that perfect is what's right for you not for them. We, as a society with the help (not) of, again, that irresponsible press expect too much of the people we look up to or appreciate. We have to re-learn how to appreciate people, even celebrities, for who they are not who we create inour minds. They do not belong to us. Their beauty is their own and is in their talent. I don't care if they have 2 heads! I just want to hear the beautiful music they make. It's not so long ago there were gasps and shocks of horror from people across the world when pictures of Mariah Carey's plus size body circulated the globe. Poor Mariah. She wanted so much to concieve but mother nature wasn't going to let that happen until Mariah let her body be what it needed to be to carry her children. Did it mean because Mariah was heavier she didn't sing as well or write those amazing lyrics she is known for? No! But people were cruel. She endured it and now she has her beautiful twins. But in her time of anxiety instead of the support she should have got all she got was ridicule and added stress. She was still Mariah to me. Fan then. Fan now. Fan always! Whatever her size. And I don't mind if they decide to give in to the pressue to be slim. If it is too much and they want to lose the weight so be it. That's okay. Because that's the freedom and choice they should be allowed. Being bigger doesn't mean it's an excuse to be unhealthy people. I am happy being big but I am always striving to be healthy at my size. My way. If I need hep I'll ask for it. But it's my choice. I am always reading up on what as a big person is healthy for me. No ridiculous diets I can't follow or exercises I can't do but doing my homework on the science of what a big person needs to stay healthy. No real help from the medical profession. And so these celebrities should have that same choice but they great thing is when they actually speak out about thier size and embrace it - what an amazing thing for those of us in the world living with our sizes which the world at large has a problem with. If the celebrities are saying the same things we are it can be heard better. That's why most worthwhile causes try to have a celebrity headline their cause for them.
I think this curvy celeb revolution has been way overdue but I end by saying thank you to you brave brave celebrities and non-celebrities who've spoken out to educate people about living our size.
Beautiful people, beYOUtiful!
Ray Ray xx
