Let's Talk Saturdays--I'd Kill For That Body
So today's we're going to talk about body image in the media. So we all know that Instagram models or Instagram baddies, whatever you want to call it have the same carbon copy body: huge boobs, a nonexistent waist, and hips and booty wide as all outdoors in Fashion Nova Jeans. It's a real thing.
But what's really real is everybody is not shaped like that. It's like you look on social media and literally everybody has the same shape. You really have to do some self-love technique to love who you are before you start feeling insecure about it. I wish I was joking, but I am dead serious. The overwhelming number of women that have this perfect hourglass shape and seem to have it all together, will have you insecure about how you look. It happened to me. I never had any real body insecurities growing up. I mean I thought my boobs could be bigger, but other than that I was okay with how I looked. Then Instagram became a thing. I don't blame Instagram, but it's coincidental that around the time Instagram got really popular, I became more insecure with my body. I felt like I had to look like that because everybody on TV and on social media looked like that, but when I looked in the mirror I fell short.
When I think of this, the first 2 people that come to mind are K. Michelle and Cardi B. First of all, I love them. As of recently, both of them have spoken out quite about their procedures.
She literally has no idea what's in her butt. She did it because of the stripper culture. Strippers are taking over social media. I'll never knock their hustle. They do what they have to do to get what they want.
How many of y'all know what movie that's from?? But seriously. All jokes aside...men like big butts and big boobs, and the entire idea of strip clubs is to bring the male fantasy to life. The issue is that fantasy involved real people who have real lives outside of the 4 walls of the strip club. So real women are enhancing their bodies to oblige their customers. Women who aren't strippers feel like they have to keep up to keep a man or to appeal to a man.
Of course, this is not all strippers fault or all men's fault. As people, we have to reinforce each other. We have to let each other know that we're beautiful and we're fine the way we are. We don't have to be extremely thick or curvy to have the life we've always dreamed of. Dealing with our own insecurities would help us not die over something as simple as a big butt.
K. Michelle thought that she would have a bigger career if she had a bigger butt so she got butt injections. I don't care what K. Michelle looks like. Honestly, I was a fan on Youtube way before the injections (yes, I have a real youtube addiction). You can't see somebody on the radio. You hear them, an you can hear her talent. Unlike a lot of artists these days, she can actually sing. No body is worth dying over.
As humans, we have to be more accountable for the messages we are sending. People dying from butt injections and other plastic surgeries wouldn't be such a big deal if society did not reinforce that. Turn on your TV, look at a magazine...curvaceous women everywhere. It used to be that skinny women were everywhere, but times have changed. But because there's only one carbon copy body. There's not a lot of diversity. Because of that women are killing themselves to look like that
But what's really real is everybody is not shaped like that. It's like you look on social media and literally everybody has the same shape. You really have to do some self-love technique to love who you are before you start feeling insecure about it. I wish I was joking, but I am dead serious. The overwhelming number of women that have this perfect hourglass shape and seem to have it all together, will have you insecure about how you look. It happened to me. I never had any real body insecurities growing up. I mean I thought my boobs could be bigger, but other than that I was okay with how I looked. Then Instagram became a thing. I don't blame Instagram, but it's coincidental that around the time Instagram got really popular, I became more insecure with my body. I felt like I had to look like that because everybody on TV and on social media looked like that, but when I looked in the mirror I fell short.
When I think of this, the first 2 people that come to mind are K. Michelle and Cardi B. First of all, I love them. As of recently, both of them have spoken out quite about their procedures.
She literally has no idea what's in her butt. She did it because of the stripper culture. Strippers are taking over social media. I'll never knock their hustle. They do what they have to do to get what they want.
How many of y'all know what movie that's from?? But seriously. All jokes aside...men like big butts and big boobs, and the entire idea of strip clubs is to bring the male fantasy to life. The issue is that fantasy involved real people who have real lives outside of the 4 walls of the strip club. So real women are enhancing their bodies to oblige their customers. Women who aren't strippers feel like they have to keep up to keep a man or to appeal to a man.
Of course, this is not all strippers fault or all men's fault. As people, we have to reinforce each other. We have to let each other know that we're beautiful and we're fine the way we are. We don't have to be extremely thick or curvy to have the life we've always dreamed of. Dealing with our own insecurities would help us not die over something as simple as a big butt.
K. Michelle thought that she would have a bigger career if she had a bigger butt so she got butt injections. I don't care what K. Michelle looks like. Honestly, I was a fan on Youtube way before the injections (yes, I have a real youtube addiction). You can't see somebody on the radio. You hear them, an you can hear her talent. Unlike a lot of artists these days, she can actually sing. No body is worth dying over.
As humans, we have to be more accountable for the messages we are sending. People dying from butt injections and other plastic surgeries wouldn't be such a big deal if society did not reinforce that. Turn on your TV, look at a magazine...curvaceous women everywhere. It used to be that skinny women were everywhere, but times have changed. But because there's only one carbon copy body. There's not a lot of diversity. Because of that women are killing themselves to look like that
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