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“We’re still getting sh*t on — we’re still getting talked about, memed, shamed — and no one cares anymore because it’s like, ‘Body positivity is for everybody,'” she said. “The people who created this movement — big women, big Brown and Black women, queer women — are not benefiting from the mainstream success of it.”
“I’ve been a big girl my whole life. I started Weight Watchers when I was six, I continued to do diet after diet after diet,” she told Media Drum. “I always had a big butt, big legs, small waist and flabby arms.”
“My career is fun but at the same time it is really difficult for people to take you seriously when it comes to certain businesses,” she said. “I feel like having a really big butt or having really big boobs — you are completely over sexualized.
To paraphrase Sir Mix-A-Lot, rap’s prophetic connoisseur of “booty”, the internet likes big butts, and it cannot lie. We are living, it seems, through the radical age of celebrating curvy women, where the call for bigger bums, tinier waists and thicker thighs is having something of a moment. In body image terms, the waifish rail-thin aesthetic is out and the cartoonish proportions of
At an early-morning Quickie Butts class at London fitness studio Frame, instructor Eian Crockatt leads a roomful of women pumping through squats, lunges and hip extensions specifically designed to sculpt perkier, bigger bottoms.
Let’s get in the way-back machine and head to 1992. You may remember a little tune by Sir Mix-A-Lot called “Baby Got Back.” Who are we kidding? We’ve all got that song memorized word for word. The first lyrics he says are: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” If you are a woman in your 30s or 40s like me, you have been conditioned for nearly 30 years that a big butt is the way to go. Fast-forward to 1999 and you were probably dancing in a bar in college to “Back That Azz Up.” We all wanted that perfect hourglass shape, because that is what we were told — time and time again — was the body to have.
If you have a big butt and you love it, no one is telling you not to. As a matter of fact, those involved in this research are reaffirming it. But guess what? If you have a little more jelly in your belly, that’s okay too. Don’t let this kind of bullshit bring you down. It’s just not worth it.
Despite probable good intentions, the article jarred, mainly because Vogue lauding big bums is quite like Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) penning a love song to the fur gilet. For it was Vogue, along with most other mainstream women’s magazine, that made bigger bottoms the butt of fashion industry jokes for years. So the attributes that black women have so long been shamed for have finally been given the Anna Wintour seal of approval due to a new Aryan aesthetic? It is almost too much to bear.
The era of the big booty has neither started nor ever stopped for black women, and even if it had it wouldn’t be the likes of Iggy Azalea,
They have big butts and they cannot die?
