With this year’s Olympics and with the incredible success of Serena Williams there’s been a greater understanding and focus on female athlete’s bodies as honed for their particular sports. So often in the past women have been criticized for being too “muscular,” as if that’s a bad thing, and by extension “un-ladylike.” It’s ridiculous, it’s sexist and it shows a lack of awareness that we come in different shapes and sizes and that variety is beautiful. That’s why it’s sad, but not surprising, to hear Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn say that she felt out of place at Hollywood events and wondered if her muscular body was too big for the red carpet. Lindsey has talked about this before. She said last year she was “like twice the size of anyone, in both height and weight! I’m five-foot-ten, but I’m definitely quite a bit heavier than everyone else. I feel like the odd man out sometimes.” So it sounds like this has been bothering her. She does look like she’s lost some weight recently, but she didn’t need to at all.

Even skier Lindsey Vonn can feel insecure at Hollywood parties.

“The more time I spent at these events, the more I began to feel that I didn’t quite fit in,” Vonn writes in her upcoming book, “Strong Is the New Beautiful,” of being thrust from the slopes into the spotlight.

“It seemed like everyone was model-thin, with tiny waists and long willowy legs . . . I thought: ‘Should I not wear this dress? Do I need to lose weight if I want to stay socially relevant as an athlete?’”

[From Page Six]

I like the title of her new book, Strong is The New Beautiful. That’s a great motto. Lindsey Vonn seems like a twit to me in a lot of ways, I mean she dated Tiger Woods for years and acted like he was the best thing ever, but I’m glad she’s admitting to this. However I have seen the way she dresses and there’s a distinction to be made between “should I wear this?” and “am I too big?” Those are two separate things. She’s a gorgeous woman who should not change at all, (unless she wants to and does not think it would affect her performance) and she sometimes chooses unflattering fashion. Her body is amazing (I said I wanted to get a back like hers once) and I’ve seen her in cheap-looking clingy dresses with weird cutouts. She doesn’t need to lose any weight, she need a new stylist.

I may have to take that back though after seeing these photos of her at this year’s Emmys. Her dress is incredible here.

At the Bad Moms premiere:

Last year:

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