Tyra Banks made lots of headlines when she told the world to kiss her fat ass after an unflattering picture of her popped up pretty much everywhere a few years ago. She became a champion for “natural beauty,” and lots of people applauded her for standing up for “real girls.” Yeah, sure.
That didn’t last. So far in the last three months, she’s ditched the extensions, which gave her her typical fake blonde barbie doll hair, and now we’re getting a better look at how she’s actually lost a few pounds, moving from a 14-16 to a size 8.
The most hysterical thing about this whole episode is how offended she got when the tabloids said she was overweight and she told them she had always been, and that was her natural size. Okay, no problem.
But man, the second she was able to get rid of some of that “natural” fat and show off how much she lost, that whole “I’m comfortable in my own skin” thing went right out the window, and now she’s flaunting it like she’s back on the runway again.
Some crusader for natural beauty, huh?
“I may be doing a little bit of TMI, but I always feel great when I don’t have clothes on, unless the lighting is bad in the dressing room. But sometimes certain clothes, when I put them on and they don’t fit the way that I would like them to, that’s when I tend to get self-conscious.”
So you can’t accept your own body, but we’re supposed to?
Whatever.
Now, to clarify, I’d never argue that she wasn’t beautiful always. In fact, I find her to be stunning; it’s her personality that makes me want to vomit. I think she looked great before, and think she looks great now. I’m just tired of this shallow broad babbling on and on about respecting your own body image and body and then getting offended when she’s called overweight and immediately dropping the poundage to avoid that label.
That strikes me as at least slightly hypocritical.