Jamelia’s loose talk on fat women makes a lot of sense
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HAS Jamelia really now been axed from the Loose Women panel following her remarks about plus-size females? If so, that is an outrage because she was only speaking the truth.
On an edition of the UK lunchtime talk show broadcast in April last year, the singer opined that obese women should feel “uncomfortable” about their unhealthy size.
She said that High Street stores should not be lavishly catering for this elasticated waist-seeking blobocracy by making their exceptional sizes seem the norm.
Supplying the demand for a vast range of vastsized clothes was only compounding the problem.
Singer Jamelia was talking about plus-plus sizes from 22 and beyond, the twilight world of smocks and sacks and waterfall cardigans, of frocks shaped like bricks and shirtwaist dresses without waists – and I know what she means because I’ve been there and got the XXXL-size T-shirt to prove it.
Her ITV bosses were furious. Perhaps because they secretly suspect a large percentage of the Loose Women audience are dozy fat chicks prostrate on the sofa in the middle of the day, watching telly and guzzling cream buns, while disagreeing with Gloria Hunniford or Coleen Nolan’s latest pronouncements.
But 35-year-old Jamelia has really hit on something. We should be concerned with the way unhealt hy weight problems have been unquestioningly embraced by the High Street and elsewhere.
You might think a fatso like me would be angry with her for what could be seen as “body-shaming” a chunky sector of the population, but I completely understand her point.
Just like Jamelia, I have also become increasingly un- comfortable with the creeping celebration of fatness – especially among the young. Many of us struggle with our weight, and losing it gets harder as you get older, but I’m not making excuses.
What I am saying is that I think it is wrong to encourage young women in particular to believe it is okay and, occasionally, even glamorous to be overweight.
Of course, so-called fat shaming is despicable, the last stand of the bully who has got one over on you at last.
However, I worry that society has swung too far the other way, fostering the notion that it is fine to be overweight and you are lovely just the way you are.
Well, maybe you really are, but let’s be honest here. You’d look even better if you lost the saddle bags, the mermaid thighs and the Prosecco jelly belly. But, increasingly, this is not said, or even whispered, for fear of being seen as judgmental.
We should heed Jamelia’s warning and not let being overweight be the new normal. High Street stores are selling plus sizes not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because the population is getting fatter. – Daily Mail