Iggy Azalea’s Twitter existence has never been a peaceful one. Before she was famous, Iggy threw plenty of shade that hip hop fans dug up after the fact. She didn’t stop after hitting the big time. Iggy ended up (bizarrely) feuding with Snoop Dogg and (rightfully) schooling Eminem for his rape lyrics. She stirred up plenty of trouble for dismissing her “patronizing” critics and refusing to “play hip hop squares.”
There have been more feuds, but let’s get down to the matter. Iggy actually isn’t in the wrong for her latest round of news. She went on vacation with boyfriend Nick Young, and she got papped (long range) in a bikini. You can see those photos here. The internet got really ugly, really fast over these photos. People ganged up on Iggy for daring to show a little cellulite. So now she’s quit Twitter with a series of statements:
(1) Just got back from a great vacation, came online and saw apparently it’s shocking and unheard of to be a woman and have cellulite. Lol.
(2) I just want to have peace and relaxation time without a perve with long distance lense hiding out taking pictures, everyone deserves peace.
(3) I feel the hatred and pettiness i see online at all times is at making me become an angry person and I cannot be that.
(4) To become nasty because of the way I feel iam treated would be a disservice to my fans and I promise i will try to keep smiling.
(5) But I also want to let my fans know iam taking some time away from social media. I need to be happy and it is too negative and draining.
(6) The Internet is the ugliest reflection of man kind there is.
[From Iggy Azalea on Twitter]
Iggy says she’s turned over all of her social media accounts to her management, which is a wise move. I don’t know how long this hiatus will last. Celebrities “quit” Twitter all the time and come back a few days later. It’s a very hard habit to kick. Even Chrissy Teigen returned after receiving death threats. Chrissy lasted a whole week. Since Iggy put her team in charge, I think she’ll last longer but not forever. If her people are wise, they’ll change the password so she won’t be tempted to jump into the next controversy. But Iggy didn’t deserve to be body shamed. Twitter should be ashamed of itself, but I know it’s not.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
She looked great! Stop body shaming women who don’t look like they just left concentration camp!
But people are fine with body shaming women that are thin.
It is wrong either way. All women are different sizes and shapes. They should all be fine with the figures they have. But skinny shaming seems to be OK.
A part of her image is her body; showing it off. Which is her right. I think some people feel when you put yourself out there for that then you are open season. It is wrong and silly; but I read a few comments stating as such. I think she look fine as well, but I still don’t get why it is fine to attack women that are thin..
Yes. Totally agree. I would never go to an overweight person and tell them not to eat another burger, but because I’m skinny people find it okay to tell me to go eat a burger. When it’s assumed skinny girls have eating disorders, it really makes mad.
I’m 36 years old, 102 pounds with cellulite.
I’m sure PHD Gossip was being fecetious. She was most likely referring to women who are starving themselves to be skeletal.
It’s never okay to attack women for being thick or thin, but thin women are put up on a pedestal in our society. Studies have shown how people associate fatness with stupidity, laziness, and sloppiness, and fat people often suffer the consequences of those assumptions in the workplace and socially.
So yeah, it sucks to be shamed regardless of whether you’re too thin or too thick… but the thicker ladies have it tougher. That’s probably why some people don’t feel bad throwing shade at thin women. Plain and simple.
“She was most likely referring to women who are starving themselves to be skeletal.”
I don’t want to put words in your mouth but it seems like you’re implying that it’s ok to shame people who have eating disorders? Because women who starve themselves DO have an ED-it’s called anorexia. It’s actually a disease and if you know anything about what drives it, then you’d understand that Anorexia can be exacerbated and triggered by negative comments like that.
Saying a woman looks skeletal or like she just came from a concentration camp isn’t exactly sensitive either, you know? Let’s all be nice and stop making nasty, critical comments about women’s bodies, whether thin or heavy.
It isnt okay for anyone. Telling someone to eat a burger is just as bad as telling someone to put a burger down. It’s concern trolling. It’s rude, presumptuous and no one’s business what someone eats or what their body looks like. Period.
Having said that, I honestly cannot understand why anybody cares about someone else’s body. My body does not exist for anyone else’s enjoyment. No one else’s opinion means a damn thing.
@Kitten I’m fully aware of EDs. I’m in medical school currently so I’m pretty well educated on mechanisms of disease. I didn’t mean to imply it’s okay to bash women who look skeletal or women who suffer from anorexia. I meant to make the distinction that there are women who are naturally very thin and there are women are are not naturally thin but go through certain measures to make it so, and PHD was referring to the latter.
Not everyone who gets down to an unnaturally low weight suffers from a full blown eating disorder, but rather what we like to call “disordered eating.”
I feel for naturally thin women who struggle to gain weight and get picked on. I also feel deeply for those who struggle with eating disorders, as I have a close friend in recovery. But those only make up a portion of skinny women. Many are fueled by vanity, and I feel less bad for them.
Society pats these women on the back 99% of the time, so if they come across a snarky comment once in a blue moon… cry me a river. Larger women deal with cruelty on the daily. It’s not even a comparison.
In addition to what has already been said, would it be okay to fat shame women who overeat? It wouldn’t. People come in different shapes and sizes and it doesn’t matter how they ended up that way, shaming them doesn’t “solve” anything. You can’t complain about someone fat shaming and in the same breathe skinny-shame another woman.
“Not everyone who gets down to an unnaturally low weight suffers from a full blown eating disorder, but rather what we like to call ‘disordered eating.'”
I battled with my own ED and I know the difference between disordered eating and eating disorders, but you said specifically “starve themselves” and to me that’s different than drastically lowering your caloric intake, it’s literally not eating and that IS anorexia.
“Many are fueled by vanity, and I feel less bad for them.
Society pats these women on the back 99% of the time, so if they come across a snarky comment once in a blue moon… cry me a river. Larger women deal with cruelty on the daily. It’s not even a comparison. ”
Personally, I don’t feel the need to make that judgment on any other woman.
*shrugs*
I don’t presume to know why a woman is thin and what motivates her to be that way, whether it’s vanity or her natural body type or an eating disorder or not. Maybe she just enjoys being thin? Who cares? It’s her body and her business.
I also don’t see why it has to be a competition of “who has it worse, the skinny woman or the overweight woman?” because that’s a distraction from the real issue, which is society’s sick obsession with women’s bodies. I’m not going to play into the criticism because then I’m part of the problem.
Of course it’s not a competition of who has it worse, but it is relevant nevertheless. Thin privilege is a very real thing in this day and age. I don’t approve of shaming anyone, but when people say ragging on thin women is the same as ragging on fat women, that irks me. I swear, fat shaming is the last socially acceptable form of prejudice. Thin people who complain because some rando told them to eat a burger that one time do not recognize their privilege in terms of job offers and social settings, and I find that annoying.
To me (sharpen your knives!), it’s analogous to the race issue. White people may experience crap sometimes (like skinny people), and that’s valid, but it’s not comparable to what black people (and fat people) deal with on a daily basis. It’s a social issue. People roll their eyes when white people whine and cite white privilege, so I’m gonna cite thin privilege. Please note that I recognize racism is something deeply rooted in history and that you don’t control your race, while weight fluctuates. I’m not saying the two issues are equal, but rather analogous.
How can we make society better if we don’t point out inequality that exists? I agree the real root of the problem is the obsession with women’s bodies regardless of size, but that doesn’t change the fact that fat shaming has a deep impact that far exceeds self esteem issues.
I don’t see society being mean to overweight people as analogous to racism in any way, shape, or form. I really don’t see the parallel.
“Thin privilege” is NOT the same as white privilege.
I think you don’t understand that there are people who work their asses off to be in shape and they shouldn’t be shamed for it. Judging thin women as if they have some inherent rights because they are thin completely disregards the fact that not every thin person is born thin–for most of us it takes dedication and sacrifice. If it makes you feel better to think that thin people have some God-given privilege then so be it, but understand that it’s essentially the same as assuming that fat people are lazy slobs without any self-control. You can slap the fancy label of “thin privilege” on it, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a whole lot of judging on your part.
I get that this is a sensitive issue for you and I absolutely agree that overweight people are WAY too often treated incredibly cruelly in our society, but to say that the social construct that surrounds white privilege is analogous to overweight people being stigmatized in our society is an audacious comparison.
Jay- I think you are missing the point that Kitten put really well. It’s not okay for a rando to tell a women to eat a burger. It’s not okay for people to walk up to a complete stranger and comment on their body. I lost a lot of weight when I had PTSD after a sexual assault & had complete strangers tell me to eat. I had a server bring back my plate of food that I was finished with & tell me to eat more because I was too thin. It’s just not okay to humiliate women about their bodies.
Jay – ‘so if they come across a snarky comment once in a blue moon… cry me a river.’
Seems like you will be perfectly well suited to the Medical profession with Empathy like that.
As a naturally thin woman I have had to deal with an inordinate amount of shaming and blatant bullying over the years – including from the medical ‘proffession’ who refused to test me for Hypothyroidism for 4 years because I was ‘too skinny’ – You have no idea and sound pretty vindictive.
@MC2-I’m so sorry that you had to go through that. Truly. Thank you for being brave and sharing your story.
It really does illustrate the fact that we don’t know why a woman is thin/overweight and it simply shouldn’t be a topic at all. It’s all just another example of society thinking they have ownership of women’s bodies, that as women we exist to be critiqued and judged.
Jay doesn’t see that she is participating in that.
I disagree that it’s an audacious comparison. I never said I think thin people have a “God given”privilege; they have a MAN GIVEN privilege, and how would that make me “feel better?” Nonsensical. I’m also well aware that there are people who work hard to be healthy and trim, as I am one of those people, so no need to condescend me.
I also never equated white privilege with thin privilege. In fact, I clearly stated the two are NOT equal.
It is undeniable that thin privilege exists (no, not God given, but socially constructed), and for you to make a mockery of that is rather ignorant. Plenty of research has shown the subconscious perceptions of thin vs. overweight people and how those perceptions affect their treatment in society. Perception/prejudice dictating social treatment is analogous to racism imho. If you don’t get that, whatever.
I’m not saying every thin person lives a life of rainbows and sunshine, just like not every overweight person leads a miserable one. I know thin people face horrible bullying at the individual level. I’m simply saying there is an inequality in treatment that goes BEYOND affecting body image. For instance, overweight people are perceived as lazier and more irresponsible/unintelligent than their thin counterparts, and are often passed over for job offers. If that’s not thin privilege to you, then you must be arguing semantics, which is a sheer waste of time.
Kitten- thank you! I spent a lot of my life trying to hide my experiences & now I think sharing (all different experiences) is good for us all. I hope Jay can take a breath & learn from other’s experiences- especially going into the medical field. I had wonderful doctors but also encountered some that were too wrapped up in themselves & their preconceived ideas (?) to not be considerate & had terrible bedside manner.
Jay- I think we all in this convo understand that thinness is upheld as a beauty standard in our culture. That said- it’s not a fight over who has it worse. People feel the right to judge & comment (directly) on women’s bodies & that is not ok- no matter the reason or circumstance.
You typed “Many are fueled by vanity, and I feel less bad for them. Society pats these women on the back 99% of the time, so if they come across a snarky comment once in a blue moon… cry me a river. Larger women deal with cruelty on the daily. It’s not even a comparison. ”
So- own your comments & maybe learn from others rather then being on the attack.
@Jay-
“Perception/prejudice dictating social treatment is analogous to racism imo”
“Analogous” means that they are the same in some respects, that they are comparable. That’s the definition of the word that you used.
And I’m telling you that they are NOT the same. At all. I could go into a whole dissertation about the differences, beginning with lynchings and ending with police brutality but I think that would probably be lost on you. Much like rape, racism really shouldn’t be compared to anything else. It stands alone in the social injustices and everyday indignities, the sheer dehumanizing, the violence, the ownership and dominance that was imposed on PoC, the way they were treated like animals. It is not analogous to someone giving a dirty look or making a snide remark about an overweight person.
“Plenty of research has shown the subconscious perceptions of thin vs. overweight people and how those perceptions affect their treatment in society.”
Do you really NOT see that this is exactly what you do to thin people? You have preconceptions and false notions about thin people that you have demonstrated over and over in your comments here. In your attempt to be empathetic and equalize what you see as an inequality, you’re actually doing the opposite–you’re perpetuating stereotypes and assumptions about a woman based on her body type.
You know what?
I give up.
Mistreatment based on race and mistreatment based on weight ARE similar in *some* respects. Of course there are countless differences, but there are some similarities, hence they are analogous. How is being passed over for job offers based on prejudices drawn from someone’s physical appearance NOT a similarity between the two? I never said they’re the same (in fact I’ve said they’re not the same multiple times), but keep putting words in my mouth. You’re clearly just going to read what you want to read.
I don’t “do” anything to thin people. I have no false notions, and I perpetuate no stereotypes, so I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. I’ve actually run into quite a bit of drama defending my thin friends. But that doesn’t mean I think they have it worse than overweight people from a *societal* and not necessarily an *individual* standpoint.
MC2 — no one is on the attack. I enjoy different insights and opinions, and I stand by mine. Thin women are sometimes bullied, and there’s no excuse for that. There’s no excuse for the abuse any woman faces. But it is fatness, not thinness, that leads to gross misperceptions about personal character, and in my mind, THAT’S the more pertinent issue.
When thin people get bullied, they are essentially being called unattractive (which is AWFUL, don’t get me wrong), but when fat people get bullied, they are being deemed unattractive + lazy + sloppy + stupid + unmotivated … and the list goes on. The impact of those misperceptions is far greater for overweight people socially.
I don’t mean to diminish what some thin women go through, but I think the gross inequality and false character perceptions need to be addressed.
Kitten
Extremely well said.
I can only speak from my personal experience. Whe I was at my lowest weight I was not praised. Society did not pat me on the back. I was either mocked for my appearance or approached like I was extremely ill looking with much concern for my health and safety. And to look at a thin or thicker woman I would only see traits I wish I had. Not the reverse.
I’ve stated my profession here and can say in the medical field there is a disconnect. Some things can’t be taught in a classroom or from a book. It comes from experience and then you begin to view what you learned in a different light. Sometimes years and years later.
Jay
Thin women are also seen as lazy and sloppy. Think of the stereotypical “white trash”. Or the (again stereotyped) lady who lunches with a wealth husband. They are also seen as lazy and not bright. It goes both ways. We might think more easily to to 1 side, but it exists on both.
Jay- no one has said here that thin women have it worse or the same then overweight women in societies judgment of them. One being worse does not make the other one okay or like people shouldn’t recognize it and there should be no “buts”. I totally agree that overweight women get more unfair judgements & comments. You really seem to be missing the point- it’s not okay to body shame. We don’t need to compare battle wounds to decide whose is worse. Saying “cry me a river” when a thin women gets a rude comment said to her- no one should have a comment made to them, period. You are adding fuel to the very fire you are trying to put out.
Kitten- don’t lock the door! I’m right behind you!
Thanks, FLORC, I always enjoy your comments on this topic.
@Jay-36% of the US population is overweight. I assume that most of these people are employed, so how often does an overweight person get turned down from a job because of their appearance? There are people who get turned down for a job because they aren’t good-looking enough too (hello Abercrombie). Is there a term for the person that got the job? “Beautiful privilege” or how about just LUCKY?
Sometimes people are mean or employers are sh*tty, that is still NOT comparable to a person being seen as ‘lesser than’ because they’re tanner than someone else. Life can be unfair and cruel but fat discrimination is nowhere near black on the scale of social injustices.
Put it this way– an overweight white person is STILL treated better than an overweight black person. I think you feel the need to draw parallels in order to elevate the prejudice that an overweight person might face, but in doing so you’re just minimizing racism. As far as overweight people being treated so poorly, I’d wager that Melissa McCarthy is having a helluva lot more fun than both you and I. Sure, she’s not the average overweight person but overweight people are generally allowed to succeed.
“I have no false notions, and I perpetuate no stereotypes, so I’m not sure where you’re getting that from.”
Here’s the thing–it’s not just me that’s getting that. There are other commenters here that are copying and pasting your OWN comments, insinuating that skinny women are less deserving of empathy.
But since you asked me, I’ll start with the term “privilege” or *a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people*. As soon as you say that thin people are somehow “privileged”
you are absolutely saying that there is some inherent advantage for women who are thin. Can you at least own that much?
Ok, so here’s my problem with that: saying that thin women have an advantage in life is a sweeping generalization that dehumanizes us and reduces women down to a body type. By using the term “thin privilege” you are completely disregarding the human being beneath, the PERSON who has her own unique life experience and her own singular emotions and feelings. There are people here like FLORC and MC2 who are sharing their truth but you’re too busy asserting how right you are to open up and REALLY listen to them.
What you refuse to hear is this: a thin person is a PERSON first. A thin person could have a disease, mental health issues, suffer from an ED, or be an abuse survivor. But to you, thin people all possess some inherent right or “privilege” simply because of their body type.
I wonder what my friend who was 92 lbs when she died of cancer at age 28 would think of your thoughts on “thin privilege”?
Better yet, ask the two toddlers who now live without a mother.
@Jay – I completely agree with you.
I just typed out a whole long comment that didn’t post and I don’t have the heart to do it again. Suffice it to say that I agree with Jay. I really don’t think anyone is saying it is okay to body shame skinny women. However, I think some of these comments seem very defensive or willfully obtuse. It is interesting that many of these comments also sound a lot like white people who refuse to acknowledge that white privilege exists.
Her body is great. I would love to look like her. Instead I’m short, curvy, and about 20 pounds overweight no matter how much I work out/diet. Yeah, I could starve myself, but I don’t want to to fit into some societal standard. I feel healthy how I am, my doctor says I’m healthy with good numbers, and I generally eat healthy so I’m ok with it. This is how my body is naturally and I don’t see a point in fighting it to please someone else. I’m a size 10 and I’ve accepted that I just have some extra meat on my bones.
Recently though I was body shamed by a previous male friend – to my husband of all people (this guy was friends with both of us). He texted him that I’m a ‘butterbody’ but I have a great smile/face (exhibit A of why we are no longer friends with him – he also made a pass at me prior to the text which was rejected and I promptly told my husband about). I can’t tell you how much this pissed me off. The guy in question is about 50 pounds overweight himself. And THIS GUY, this overweight himself guy, thought it was ok to body shame ME. Why? Because I’m a woman and have different societal standards. It’s ok for him to be overweight but me? Oh no, I’m supposed to be thinner and aesthetically pleasing to him. To that I say – f*ck off douche. I’ll say the same to anyone that body shames anyone else. Luckily I have a good self esteem and know my husbands loves me for me, but even with that it really dragged me down. No one deserves that.
When this happened I did have to remind myself that I’ve also gotten great feedback on my body before. I live in a very active state where many women are quite thin, so yeah my body type is a little out of the norm. In the last few years I’ve gotten compliments from random guys along the lines of: “You’re thick and have curves, and I like that” “I like the way you look” “You’re gorgeous” ect. So I try to remember that for every douche that wants to body shame me there’s another person out there that can see the beauty in me, and the beauty in us all no matter our shape or size.
Keep doing you Iggy, you’re gorgeous. To anyone who reads my little rant here – you’re beautiful too, whatever size you are.
I don’t want to participate in the “who has it worse” debate as it’s – as so many have pointed out – quite beside the point. But it’s also wrong to state that while overweight people have to face prejudice about their character, skinny shaming is only about looks. Just how many times someone says to a skinny woman, that she’s not a “real woman”? Because “real women have curves” or something stupid like that? Making someone feel like they are inadequate in their gender is something that goes far beyond looks. A lot of skinny women don’t exactly sport DDs and JLO’s ass as such a combination is rare genetic luck. I’ve heard so many horrible stories of young girls and women who are deeply insecure because of the steady insults about their supposed lack of “feminine” curves, people telling them they’re just a bag of bones, they should eat more to grow some boobs, they look like a little prepubescent boy or girl and no man could like them, except if he’s a closeted gay or pedophile etc. Way to go…
Of course these stories are not necessarily bound to skinny shaming, but they are often connected.
@isadora I agree, I think body shaming of ANYONE is wrong, whether small or big, and there is no ‘worse one’. Genetics, health problems, psychological issues, all of these things play a role in how someone looks and no one has a right to shame someone else’s physical appearance.
Iggy Azalea looks slim to me. Not dangerously so like Guiana Rancic, but slim enough to actually be characterized as slim and attractive by society’s standards, I would think. She’s definitely not overweight, at the very least. She has a very flat stomach. If the issue is only her cellulite, I don’t get that either since I figure everybody has some degree of cellulite, both among thin and fat people. So the comparison between thin vs fat people and who gets rude comments and why doesn’t even factor into it when I look at these pictures. What I’m actually wondering is why a lady who looks slim enough to fit society’s pretty person and thin ideal would be asked to put down a cheeseburger, not eat one. It almost seems nowadays that everyone (thin or fat) is being asked not to eat as opposed to just fat people being asked not to eat. I assume everyday thin women in regular life are being asked to eat something to fill out a bit, judging by the comments about people’s own experiences, but I wonder if this actually happens in Hollywood among the entertainment “crowd” and among the Twitter patrols — it seems like even size 2s are being asked to put down a cheeseburger (as evidenced by Kate Hudson’s comments about the French lady telling her to put away the extra pastries). Ultimately, that’s what I’m finding bizarre about the whole thing.
@Jay, I agree with you completely. Well done.
@Jay
I’m completely in awe of you that you had the mental strength and dedication to get through this absurd debate. You are right on, totally logical and 100% correct. Kitten (& others) are being “willfully obtuse” (as another commenter so accurately put it) and engaging in a pretty extreme case of selective reading with a nice side dish of “BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH THIN WOMEN?????”
I hold/have held many privileges in society. White privilege and thin privilege for sure. But it is my duty to recognize those privileges and do what I can to equalize the system. This conversation is absurd and I thank you for having patience where I did not. If I had been in your position I would have simply said “Kitten. Go back to school and read a book.”
@ Jay – well said & I completely agree with you.
That’s really a nice comment, both for thin women and concentration camps survivors… O.o
+1
@Jay:
You’re totally right, every time someone brings up thin privilege, a bunch of commenters have to bring up that thin women get teased as well. While it sucks that ALL women get made fun of for what their body is and what their body isn’t, that doesn’t mean that thin women experience the same kind of abuse that fat women experience.
As someone who has been on both sides of it, being fat was definitely worse because there are no privileges that go with being fat to offset all the negative. Many people have a natural tendency to avoid fat people, so if you want to be invisible than being fat is great. It’s harder to participate socially or even in a retail setting as a fat person, but being thin means you are given a certain baseline of decent treatment. If you’ve never been really fat then you have zero idea what its like to be treated as inferior in every setting just because you’re fat. It’s not even comparable to the comments one gets for being too skinny. It shouldn’t be about who has it worse, but it’s important that thin women understand hatred of fat people is on a much more endemic level. Hatred of fat is what leads people to police women’s bodies of all sizes.
Thank you so much for that comment Juno. I have noticed on this site that every single time there is talk of body shaming, people need to jump in and say skinny women get made fun of too. Or any time an overweight celeb is defended, someone jumps in and says well if people can call Angelina skinny I want to call Adele fat. The whole “real women have curves” thing started because overweight women felt so ashamed of their bodies and they struck back. There is no such thing as a real woman. I have been on both sides, very skinny and overweight, and I’m sorry you are judged much harsher being overweight. Point blank. I also did know someone who lost out on a job because they were overweight. The unofficial story was the employer didn’t think they would be able to perform the job (it was a YMCA camp). Why can’t some people just listen to other people’s experiences and what they have to say without jumping in and trying to turn it into a battle?
Funny how she’s being the victim now, but she tweeted in the pass how Mexicans have the box body look on lock. And all her other racist tweets about asian, and native Americans, and people that can’t speak English…see that didn’t make the news. Whatever girl bye. I’ll be glad when her 15 mikes are over. Just google iggy racist tweets and go to image and see what I mean. As a woman I don’t agree that she should be body shame either, but this drama is not the worst thing on the internet, people getting beheaded is more pressing than her feelings.
It’s easy to trivialize body shaming when you bring up terrorism or a million other world issues. That doesn’t make what she’s saying any less valid.
Childhood cancer exists. Does that mean you’re not allowed to be upset over anything that happens to you ever?
Well I think Des has a point in the sense that Iggy mocking Mexican women for a boxy body type makes a lot of us less sympathetic to her. But she’s proven again and again that she’s the type that can dish it but can’t take it.
Shame-off!!!
Tnx Kitten.
I checked out her racist tweets and she was also complaining about having to listen to Mexican accents, which she was not happy to hear.
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Many people with indigenous blood are not tall and slim, like the standard of beauty states. Better be boxy than a racist b**** like IA.
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While I agree that no woman should be bullied, girl gets no sympathy from me. She is a bully herself, trying to justify herself y saying that that was her private twitter.
Exact same thing I was thinking Des! She didn’t have a problem with body shaming when she said that “all the girls in LA are skinny, except the Mexicans who have block bodies”.
Zero sympathy from me. Who knows how many Mexican girls got to read that comment and wonder/think something is innately wrong with their body because who they were born as. Shame on Iggy.
True enough guys. She has been awful and racist in her comments. It doesn’t make it right to or justified to judge, but I hope she’s realized the impact of words now that she’s on the receiving end.
I thought this thread would be more how her bottom gets photoshopped to hell and back rather than body shaming.
Very much what you said, FLORC. She has said some terrible things and she seems like a big hypocrite (dish it but can’t take it) but it’s still bad to body shame her.
When I saw those pics I was like, “Oh my god, what?! She looks amazing!” You know all the people nitpicking her cellulite on Twitter weigh 300 lbs and hate themselves.
Stef Leppard,
Body Shaming can come from anyone, overweight or thin. Your insinuation that only overweight people are the ones commenting or nitpicking as you put it is rude. I carry extra weight, and I would never think to comment on someone else’s body from my own experiences with body shaming. People are rude, the internet gives them the platform to be rude. As an aside, you can be skinny and hate yourself. A person with an ED or an overweight person can both hate themselves.
I wasn’t talking about you unless you were one of the people who said ridiculous things about her body.
Your exact phrase “You know all the people nitpicking her cellulite on Twitter weigh 300 lbs and hate themselves” is a generalization that overweight people are the only people that are nitpicking someone thinner than themselves. It is a rude generalization about heavier people, and I pretty sure that someone thin could be behind the comments as well. Although whatever the person that is doing the picking on weighs shouldn’t matter. The only thing that really needs to be said about the internet trolls picking on IA’s body are that they are sad and mean, which has absolutely nothing to do with their weight.
Jay Is it a “privilege” to have someone tell me to eat or assume I have an eating disorder because I’m a skinny woman? No. It’s embarrassing to have people say these things
I’m sure that was mortifying, and I’m sorry you have experienced that. But thinness does carry certain privileges in our society. For instance, one study found that when they showed pictures of an overweight person watching TV on the couch versus a thin person watching TV on the couch, people perceived the thin person as “resting and relaxing” and the overweight person as “lazy and unmotivated.”
These perceptions, often subconscious, do impact life in the workplace and in social settings. So even though thin people take tons of crap sometimes (wich is totally inexcusable), there is privilege there.
That’s the problem with such studies, they can only show a certain aspect. So while I think in the described case it’s absolutely true, I’d love to have an example where a slightly overweight person is hanging out in a pub with friends and then a slightly underweight person is doing the same. Then ask people who they think is the funnier one, the better friend, more relaxing to be around. Personally I think there’s the posibility that more people would chose the overweight person because while there is negative prejudice of “lazy and unmotivated” about them, there is also often positive prejudice of being funnier, relaxed and able to enjoy the pleasurable sides of life. On the other hand skinny people are often prejudiced to be “high-strung, catty, obsessed with their body image” etc.
Of course I don’t mean extremely obese or extremely underweight people, as both are not a matter of body type but a medical/psychological problem.
Did people assume you were lazy, sloppy, uneducated, or unmotivated too? That is what many people assume about overweight people. Seriously why is this a war?
It’s ridiculous how some can be so obtuse about thin priveledge when it actually exists. Based on my personal experiences with being both thin and heavier, I had it worse when I was bigger (and let’s not even go there about the additional layer of racism I experienced on top of everything, but that’s for another post).
Thin priveledge is a real thing and it’s a shame some refuse to accept that.
Iggy azalea is worse than all the body shamers ever…cuz she’s a racist body shamer….anyone recall her tweet where she said: ‘Mexicans got the box body on lock,’ <– that's disgusting. She needs to stfd with her weak racist azz.
Hey
Girl still looks good! My butt doesn’t look that good with all the cellulite on it!
Agreed. She looks great. I also carry my weight in my rear and have more cellulite than her. Guess what, I also wear a bikkini as do literally 95% of the women who live here, no matter their size. Also, I exercise rigorously regularly and my cellulite is there no matter what. Yes, I notice that if I eat more over the holidays it gets a little worse
My point is, a huge percentage of women have cellulite, which is not easy to get rid of especially if you carry your weight in certain areas. Are we all suppossed to sit at home and never venture out? Shame on any one that thinks that.
It would be nice to all have perfect bodies, but who really does and if they do, it does not usually last. There are so many more important things to worry about.
Zimmer, we are in the same boat. Men are lucky they biologically can’t get cellulite. And even women who work out can have it. People don’t understand that.
AuroraO,
Men can and do get cellulite. It’s uncommon, but it happens. I work on the water and see all shapes and sizes in their bathing suits. Dudes can get it, uncommon though it may be.
People are so mean to this girl.
She once tweeted that Mexican girls all had ‘box body’. When people tease her for having cellulites,she’s quitting Twitter. Boo-hoo.
Agreed. Absolutely no sympathy for this racist broad. As someone stated up-thread, this is just another example of her dishing it out, then crying foul when it’s thrown back at her. She’s pulled way too many offensive stunts to pretend she’s a victim, which her defenders conveniently forget about when trying to carry her flag. Believe us, Miss Gloss, the meanness is WELL deserved.
Oh wow, that’s horrible. 🙁 It’s hard to feel empathy for her after reading this. That tweet is a body-shaming, racist tweet all rolled into one.
I like her music, but I don’t rly like her. Nonetheless, on this particular case I’m with her. Her response seemed rly mature to me. Good for her.
yep, with you there.
The thing is that we’re so used to seeing celebs with airbrushed bodies even in supposedly candid shots that when we see a normal looking girl, everyone is shocked! but everybody has a little cellulite even teenage girls,that’s what a real body looks like.
+1000
It’s like when the “natural” Beyoncé pics were released a few days ago and people lost their minds. So her skin isn’t flawless in real life, big freaking deal! I’d be very hard pressed to name one person who never had a pimple, just like I’d be very hard pressed to name a woman who doesn’t have some cellulite somewhere.
Trolls gonna troll, I suppose.
I agree. We’re mostly shocked not because we’re not used to seeing cellulite or pimples but because we’re not used to seeing them on celebrities. People lost their minds over this and Beyoncé because of videos like “Booty” or that L’Oreal ad. They present certain “assets” to us looking flawless and they do it on purpose. Sometimes to sell us products. So of course I giggle a little when the un-photoshopped Beyoncé has worse skin than I do as opposed to the finished ad where her face looked plastic as hell. Because they tell me I should their product to look like B. Only she doesn’t even look like that herself. I see a pimple in real life and it doesn’t even register.
Just when I thought we no longer expected celebrity women to be flawless, I mean look how Cindy Crawford was hailed after the photo leaked last week. I guess there is still a lot of work to be done.
With Iggy on this one, it’s ok for women to have cellulite, people. get over and grow!
I’m sure the people being cruel to her on Twitter don’t have an ounce of cellulite on their perfect bodies. What a shame. Our society focuses on the most shallow, meaningless things, and I agree with her that the anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people much of the time.
I guess as most of the Twitter idiots were immature teenage boys, they really might not have an ounce of cellulite on their (not so perfect) bodies.
While I sometimes miss my carefree teenage days, this is something I’m actually really glad about – not dealing anymore with boys who have yet to learn A LOT about life and women.
I see nothing wrong with Iggy in that photo.
Me neither. She looks slim and amazing. Her butt looks good. WTH
What did people think it looked like? Ugh! I blame photoshop
I tend to agree. If people would stop ‘shopping themselves, no one would talk when the odd blemish peeks out.
I’m mean but I’ll feel sorry for her (and others celebs) the day they’ll stop selling us perfect-photoshoped-plastic surgery bodies.
When you’re selling lies, people might get angry.
This. I do feel her pain, no one should be body shamed. But I think she’s had that fat injection surgery into her hips/butt area, much like Kim K.
http://famousplastic.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iggy-azalea-butt-shots-before-after-plastic-surgery.jpg
And do we really know what that surgery does to your ass after some time passes? I think Kim’s butt looks the same (but more ridiculous and extreme obviously) sometimes, presumably when she hasn’t had a “procedure” in awhile. Maybe Iggy’s is regular cellulite, and has nothing to do with surgery. Either way it is not cool to make fun of her, but I’m not buying that these are “natural curves,” and I think I’d feel sorrier for her if she hadn’t completely remade herself into something that she was not when her first try at a career didn’t work.
She had for sure. http://oi62.tinypic.com/2hwnvgx.jpg
She looks great, I’d love to have her body.
me too
You can buy it.
So she quit Twitter over cellulite, but not over the racist crap that she’s been involved in? Nice priorities. Is she over yet?
+ 1 to you and Twyla below.
Haha, for real. Quitting over cellulite but not over her own racism OR the fact that people have BEEN calling her out for being a phony, faking her accent, not writing her own lyrics, lip syncing, and the whole “vocal blackface” thing. THIS is what gets her up in arms after she’s been slammed so many times for so much worse (and rightfully so)?
Oh shiiiiit. 🙂 Nice one!
I’m glad she’s off Twitter so we won’t have to see her racist BS anymore but I wish she had been driven off for legitimate reasons not for having a “fat” ass.
I get why people might have a problem with her music and some of the stuff she says but no idea why they’d take so much issue with her looks.
She’s not my ideal body type but she’s an amazing shape and has a really eye catching figure which looks great in the costumes she wears. At the VMA awards she looked awesome and performed with a ton of charisma (if not musicality). I sort of assumed she was signed because of her appearance actually.
I’m guessing the issue with her looks is the common perception that she bought them. I’ve seen pics of her from when she first got started in music, and she was packaged as a pseudo-Britney Spears, teenybopper pop act, with a much slimmer and flatter body and backside. Then she decided to make the jump over to hip-hop, and in addition to adopting a fake hood accent that she figured would win her street cred, she also apparently paid a little visit to a doctor to make her body more stereotypically ideal to that “hood” image. I think people could maybe feel a little more sympathy if this were her natural body, but after she’s grossly distorted her own shape to fit what she thought would, again, give her that cred and attention, it’s kind of like harping on someone with a really wonky boob job; fair is fair.
+1…Iggy’s old body was just fine. But it was her choice to try to adopt a more “stereotypically hood” booty so now she has to face the consequences.
Almost every woman has cellulite, it is so sad that girls are taught by the media that it is disgusting or there is something wrong with you if you have it. Skinny girls have cellulite too. It is so normal, but it feels like everyone is terrified of it!
I know. I grew up in the 70s and I remember my mom and her friends wearing short shorts and swimsuits with zero shame — or even much thought — about their cellulite. I’m not sure when that changed but it really is a shame.
Remarks about appearance should not have someone letting the bullies win. I don’t like IA, but in this instance, she should’ve stood firm.
“The Internet is the ugliest reflection of man kind there is”
Wow how true is this statement! People are so brave when their sitting behind their keyboards attacking others people’s looks, lives etc.! Take away their computers and I wonder how many people would have said anything!
I agree the Internet is pretty awful but really?
Concentration camps…legal rapings…genocide.
I’m more scared about what people do to each other when they can see the person they’re destroying and they STILL don’t care. I’m scared about people who become so manipulated they abandon jobs, families, and opportunities to storm into buildings and scream about a religion they’ve warped to fit their own victim-hood.
The Internet sucks but she needs some real perspective.
Thank you Amy, your examples were literally the first things I thought of regarding humanity’s cruelty.
This woman only has “perspective” when it pertains to her, by perspective, I mean self victimization.
Make no mistake, the harassment of her body is absolutely atrocious and unacceptable, it’s a shame she couldn’t extend the same kindness she expects from others to all the people made fun of.
Agree with you 100%, Maria. She had no problem blasting others with homophobic and racist comments, but now she thinks the Internet is cruel because the spotlight is on her. She’s so f*ckin wack.
Ha! True that Amy! 🙂
Don’t like her, don’t like rap music, but she looks great in those pictures. She has a great body and a tiny bit of cellulite is nothing to be ashamed of. She looks healthy.
She looks great. I am all in favor of criticizing fashion choices, but bathing suit bodies should be off limits.
Iggy Azalea:
When it’s you: Makes several racist, sexist, and homophobic comments. Brushes off fans who rightfully complain and says, “Well this used to be my private Twitter so whatever.
When it’s her: “Waaaaah!!! I just came here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now! I’m quitting Twitter and all social media!”
…how is this woman a rapper? How is she in a career where she can ‘supposedly’ spit lyrics that cut others down but absolutely dissolves into theatrics everytime something goes wrong.
Her body is beautiful. No one should have attacked her based on it but my word…how long will TI be able to run to and fro to save his special project every few days.
I agree 100%
Times a million!
Yes! Excellent post Amy!
The remarks about Iggy were very cruel and there’s no question she was probably deeply hurt by them. Every woman has cellulite, celebs are no different. She should be proud of her body.
Then again, this is a woman who has body shamed other women (the “box bodies” comment) and has made several questionable comments about other ethnic groups. I have sympathy for her but only to a point. She body shames and insults other people but then when the tables are turned starts screaming and crying.
WORD!
Yes!
She can dish it out, but can’t take it! Funny this happen when she just released a new single! Play the victim card to promote a single, trash!
She quits for ‘cellulite’ comments, not for all those nasty Twitter fight with various guys n gals she had before? Come on girl, don’t be that sensitive. Haha.
You cannot have a large rump without some cellulite. We are humans after all. Just goes to show you how unpleasable people are. Praising big booties yet can’t handle the cheese. Get the fark outta here.
“Praising big booties yet can’t handle the cheese.”
That made me smile. 🙂
Body shaming is wrong, even if it’s directed to obnoxious celebrities , still I don’t care about her at all. She reminds me of those mean girls in school, who trash talked eveyone, but couldn’t handle their turn.
Good Riddance.
Twitter is so ugly she says….she can dish it but cant take it. I wont forget all of those stupid racial jokes she made. Im sure they hurt someone elses feelings.
And maybe people wouldnt comment on her ass if she hadnt made it a spectacle of silicone proportions. Nicki Minaj has gone through worse. Grow up.
I know this may sound a little mean but i don’t think she looks that good in the bikini pics, considering her age. If she was 35 i’d say that she looks great, but she’s only 24 years old,slim and i suppose she works out regulary and has a chef. I see girls with her age with better bodies at the beach and they don’t have her money and access to experts. Still nothing shocking in these pics, just not (photoshoped) perfect.
If she was an actress i would be less critical, but she’s a rapper (?) who relies on her looks and also promoting a flawless version of herself in magazines and videos. Her real body has nothing in common with her smooth body in the video with J.Lo.
All these celebrites love the Internet and crave the attention, but when a unphotoshopped photo surfaces are whining. I don’t agree with the bullying and the harsh comments of course but If she didn’t want to be judged about her body she shouldn’t be in leotards all the time or promote a perfect photoshopped image.
Apart from that i’m not sure if this is cellulite in her butt, it looks a little weird like it is been injected.
She has big butt implants, and from what I saw, most of the comments were about that. But the really big butt implants just never look right, and probably also push down and out and cause some cellulite look or dimpling in places.
But the oddest thing to me is all of these white women getting huge butt implants, like Kim, Khloe, Iggy, Cocoa. And even Nicki Minaj last year going that route. Sorry, women, it doesn’t look natural, like a naturally big booty looks. And boy, does it show in a bikini or thong that they aren’t natural as it even pushes out to the side.
Iggy before and after her booty implants.
http://famousplastic.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iggy-azalea-butt-shots-before-after-plastic-surgery.jpg
A back selfie of her new booty
http://guycodeblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iggy_azalea_booty.jpg
I saw a vine video of that girl Black Chyna twerking with Amber Rose and her behind was so weird, I think she has implants too.
I know some women are like that, and in some races it is a genetical trait, but this is too much.
No, No, No. As per the bikini pics, I can say her butt looks exactly like mine. I don’t have implants– I SQUAT… HEAVY! I work out my ass and that’s how you get it to grow bigger. The second pic you linked to she was using PADDING, which is why it looks so perfect and round. Butt implants are a MAJOR surgery that can be avoided by simply WORKING OUT PROPERLY! My body looks just like hers except shorter (it’s actually kind of weird the resemblance!) and I’m telling you– NO IMPLANTS!
First I’d like to say there is absolutely nothing wrong with cellulite. Most everyone has it. BUT, Iggy’s butt is soo fake Idk how most everyone on this thread thinks that it’s natural. You can tell bc her back is very straight and then out nowhere she has a rump that is covered in cellulite. Girls with butts have a curved back and hers doesn’t do that. It sucks to be body shamed but I feel as bad for her as I do for Kim K bc she brought it upon herself with those Brazilian butt injections. Placing fat pockets in your rump is a sure fire way to have an a*s that’s 100% cellulite.
Bingo. I said booty implants but I meant to add and/or fat injections. And hers is fake. It’s well known.
I have no comments on her cellulite, i think it’s ridiculous to even discuss this topic. I’d be hiding in a secret location for months and months if pictures of me parading around the pool surfaced on the internet! I don’t intend to find excuses for the sillyness of her declarations (“I quit internet cause people are being mean to me..” DUH!), but it’s tragic how only women are affected by this shameful body scrutiny.
..However, I have several things to say about that massive sunburn of her. Good lord, she’s from Australia, a country which has its own range sunscreen lotions because of how dangerous sunrays are over there! That must have felt like 1.000 pointy knives stuck into your body.
Iggy is “taking time away from social media”, not quitting. The title of this post is a little misleading, non?
She looks great! That’s what I looked like when I was younger too. I’ve always had large bum and cellulite. I’m still very proud to say that it’s mostly firm muscle at my age. My grandmother who was thin as a rail and two inches taller than I am also had cellulite. Most women do. It’s a fight a lot of us can never win no matter how much exercise we do. Dragging her down because of it is ridiculous. I’m glad she’s turned over her social media to her managers. She would be much better off not participating in it at all.
lol of course this whiny racist wants to make herself out to be the biggest victim in the world, right to the end. So Mexican women’s body types were fair game to make bitchy remarks about, but your massive fake ass isn’t?
Good riddance, I say.
When people lipo their waist, and Inject the fat into their butt,
What respect do they expect?
Just wait a few years……. Double Spanx time.
She is not being body-shamed if she intentionally did this,
That’s not what kind of a butt that is. That is a SQUAT butt of someone who squats heavy but not super frequently. I know because I have the same one.
if you think her butt is solely the result of squats, however infrequently done, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.
Okay random internet person, i’ll totally take your word for it. Except you realize that if she was indeed squatting that heavy the rest of her legs would be incredibly defined and muscular?
Honestly, I’ve always thought she has an AWESOME body. I think she’s beautiful, and after seeing those pictures I think she’s even more beautiful because I know her body is REAL. I’m not a fan of her work, but I respect the shit out of her for making a stand with this.
How do you know it’s “REAL”?
Of all the things to clown this poser for her body is NOT one of them, even if her ass is store bought…. That said HURRAY INTERNETS!! now if only ya’ll could get her to take a break from Radio… Or releasing music… or vocal Blackfacing… Something
I really don’t think her body is fake. It looks just like mine, but she’s taller than me. So basically if I was taller, I would look exactly like that. I think she SQUATS, which is what I do, and THAT’S how you get that kind of bum 🙂 Y’all should try it sometime instead of accusing her of injecting.
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/vaginabeast/65045461/1139/1139_900.jpg
That’s not squatting or padding. It’s her enhanced butt for all its lumps, some of which I believe are the result of the shots.
@Jenna: Typically if someone lifts weights they get muscle definition, especially if they have a fairly low body fat like Iggy appears to. Her butt has zero muscle tone. Do you think Khloe Kardashian is just doing a lot of squats too?
It’s genetics, for gods sake!
I’ve got that butt too, I don’t squat or exercise at all, which is why my butt looks like this – big and layered with cellulite! But I refuse to apologize for it. I don’t attack people with fat arms or fat stomachs, so please leave us fat-asses alone.
But did yours start out that way, or miraculously get bigger in your late teens/early 20s?
I don’t think you should apologize for it either, by the way. Look at J Lo – that is natural booty and I don’t think anyone would disagree with the statement that her body is AMAZING. But with Iggy there’s this sense of ickiness that prevails because almost all of her image is a put-on, from her voice to her body.
@Jenna She purchased a butt and it’s going south. It happens. This was not a butt created from working out or even genetics. Why are you so hard pressed to not understand the obvious? I’m really curious. I hope Bridget has been able to shed a little light on the matter for you.
God forbid a woman have cellulite…… *rolls eyes*
My butt looks exactly the same, God, I’m glad I’m not famous.
She annoys the shit outta me but I’m so glad that she stood up for herself AND that people are actually seeing a famous person who is not perfect! My God, it’s about frickin’ time the general population stops being fooled by photoshop! This is what a tonne of women really look like. Big whoop. She looks great.
Well I’m glad this is having the intended effect of shoring up her support among white women. They can cry about being body shamed together and identify with her opportunistic victim crap. Me, I say, cry me a river. Every woman in the public eye gets mean body shaming comments, and most of those women are far nicer people than Iggy.
She’s dumb. She knows she’s a celebrity and the paparazzi are gonna follow u where ever u go. So she knows if u put it out there for the paps to see its gonna be talked about too. There’s nothing u can do to stop the Twitter trolls. There all gonna talk smack so who cares. She Shouldn’t be so sensitive cus as a celebrity people are always going to do that. Maybe she shouldn’t be such a crybaby and not care what trolls think. I still think she will be a 2 hit wonder in the future.
The comment section on body issue stories always makes me sad.
I think that we can all agree that shaming a woman’s body is always wrong, period. Yet it seems like the comment section always devolves into people either shaming one body type in defense of another or people justifying why it isn’t usually ok, but its alright when directed at this specific person.
There are so many enlightened conversations that happen on this site on so many topics…yet when it comes to body issues, it always feels like we fight amongst ourselves even though we are mostly in agreement on the issue. It just bums me out. (no pun intended).
The fact that “women’s body types” is an issue at all is really what’s at the heart of the problem.
If we could just take a step back and see a woman for who she is as a PERSON and not just a body, we’d all be better humans for it.
But maybe a gossip site isn’t the right place to go looking for that.
Sometimes I think a couple of things are going on. We’ll get this out of the way: of course no one deserves to have their body disparaged. Everyone deserves to feel beautiful and love their body. BUT here on a gossip site we’re talking about a very narrow subset of women – celebrities – and I think it’s difficult to have a real discussion on bodies and body image when we’re using women as examples who are achieving their bodies naturally. Like it or not, the women featured on Celebitchy represent beauty/style/womanly ideals, but be they fashion model or actress, these women almost uniformly represent a body type that isn’t just unrealistic. Models have gotten thinner and thinner over the last couple of decades, and we hold up women like Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence as being voluptuous, curvy women. It’s ridiculous, and because we recognize that it’s ridiculous (and many, many, many models and actresses have talked about how ridiculous it is) there’s an assumption that it’s unattainable for everyone. I think that at heart is a deep down resentment at this ridiculous ideal.
At least, that’s my interpretation of why this always degenerates to mayhem.
“when we’re using women as examples who are achieving their bodies naturally.”
Did you mean unnaturally? Or did you mean that we’re criticizing women for the genetics they were born with?
All I know is that half the stuff I’ve ever seen on pinterest that involves “thinspo” showcases body types that are literally NOT achievable for the average woman. These women are the rare, the genetically gifted, and that’s why they’re featured in a magazine–they are the exception, not the rule.
An example would be the coveted “thigh gap”, which is dictated by the shape of one’s pelvis and the width of one’s hips. That’s genetics, end of. I’m old enough to understand that but so many young women are starving themselves to achieve this look that is based on their genetically-dictated pelvis area. There’s something really poisonous happening there.
Where was I going with this…oh yeah, so if you’re saying that as women we trap ourselves by coveting a particular body type that in reality is entirely unattainable, then I completely agree with you. Whether it’s genetics or surgery-enhanced, it’s problematic that women aspire to look like a certain celeb, instead of working with what we have.
But I think you can acknowledge and recognize the absurdity of society holding up these images of impossibly perfect bodies and also refuse to play into it by piling on the criticism or shaming. I think in the end, that’s really counterproductive and a distraction, KWIM? We can control our self-image, we can own that and stop letting society dictate how we feel about ourselves.
Was that what you were saying or did I just go way out there? Sorry, Bridget, it’s been a long day 😉
I meant “unnaturally”, you’re right. I just can’t type.
And I’m not commenting on any particular body type being preferable, etc. I’m just (apparently not very well) talking about the fact that these exceptional women are being pushed as our society’s standard of beauty and more than that, there’s an expectation that this is what women *should* look like. I can understand how a culture of resentment and frustration has arisen, even if it isn’t right. Add in the fact that there’s a lot of projection when it comes to any discussion of bodies and beauty, and it turns into this pea soup of nastiness.
Personally, I always go back to Adrianna Lima’s discussion of how she get a ready for a Victoria’s Secret show – a 9 day liquid diet while doing 2 hour workouts every day, and completely fasting for the 12 hours before the show, down to not drinking water. But those pictures and “thinspo” never have that disclaimer.
“If we could just take a step back and see a woman for who she is as a PERSON and not just a body, we’d all be better humans for it.”
Totally agree, 100%.
@Tiffany I think we can all agree on that. I’m just offering my non-expert, amateur opinion on why things degenerate the way they do on this topic. Because it is definitely a hot button topic!
Oh, I didn’t mean to cast any shade on your comments, Bridget! Sorry if it came out that way. 🙂
I do think you make good points about why the conversations tend to go the way they do. Part of it is that sometimes when people show their disapproval with the fantasy female ideal, they end up doing so in a way that attacks women of a certain body types. I know you weren’t supporting hyper critical body comments, you were just discussing their roots. Reading your comments and Kittens, I think you both make really great points that are pretty much on the same page.
I know I shouldn’t look to gossip sites for enlightenment…but I have to admit, my brain is better off for the intelligent comments you and Kitten both share on the regular. Thank you for that!
@Tiffany 🙂 I didnt think you did!!! I was just trying to further clarify, but I think this may have just been a tired day for all of us (especially me). You’re always so nice!!
She should have bought the ‘one size smaller’ implant and she wouldn’t be sagging now. Those whom ‘sell sexy’; should be flaw free – sorry but her songs and actions don’t hold up against cottage cheese butt.
“The internet is the ugliest reflection of man kind there is”
True. When I read the comments on various forums I’m reminded of why anarchy wouldn’t work. When people have carte blanche to say or do whatever they like some of them turn into monsters.
While I totally agree that body shaming is a problem, man, this chick really is a thin skinned, special snowflake who is shocked when someone insults her.
She just tweeted 1 hour ago..
Yeah? What did she say?
I just fell in love with Iggy. Atta Girl!
No, no, no ,no and no.
All of us should aim to be healthy instead of thin. The obsession with being skinny is heavily influenced by celebrities. What is important to realize is that not everybody’s genetic make-up is to be rail thin. Also, celebrities number one job is to look great, it’s part of the reason they get a job in the first place. An engineer doesn’t have to be a certain weight to be successful.
Not everybody who is thin is naturally thin, Victoria Beckham was not as thin as she is today whe she was a spice girl.
I was a little girl when spice girls were big and she had nice curves, but was thin.
Now, maybe because of her fashion line, she is too skinny for my taste.
I would prefer to have curves and not be so bony, but I will not eat fried food or junk food to gain weight.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder and I find curvy women like Scarlett Johansson a lot more attractive than say Giselle Bundchen, she is too skinny for me.
The tomboy look I have with long arms and legs with a tiny chest and very little curves is not what I consider beautiful.
Funny – when I looked at the “shocking” photo, I was struck by what a great shape she had. The cellulite doesn’t phase me at all – maybe bc I realize that it’s pretty common for most women. She looks fantastic – I thought all this shiz was supposed to be behind us!
i think she looks great.
and her statements are on point. so true.
Dear Twitter-
Cellulite has nothing to do with weight or age or anything else. My three year old son has it on his butt too. Get over yourselves, I bet you have some too.
What a sad world it is when we as women have to be afraid to wear a bathing suit and show our imperfections. Not everyone is a model, we are human. Stop shaming women and start celebrating them, especially when they have the balls to wear a bikini in the first place!! Good grief, who cares?????
Not really an Iggy fan, but I have to say her bod is hot, I wish I looked that good in a bikini!!
What she said about being able to get some peace is so true. I’d be pissed if my holiday was ruined by such an intrusion.