Dascha Polanko has a new interview with Cosmopolitan.com. Maybe she’s promoting her alleged cat-to-kitten exchange process? I kid. Jezebel has a slight update on that story (BUT not really) with a misleading headline. Shelter sources told the site that Dascha did return the cats in “less than optimal” condition and acted like a diva. I don’t see how this changes anything. The carrying box had her name printed on the outside, and there were 8 tiny breathing holes on the side. Dascha hasn’t issued a denial on dumping the cats or taping them into that box. Dascha is simply writing rude Instagram comments and blocking anyone who asks about the cats.
Dascha’s preparing to walk in New York Fashion Week for Go Red, and she talked about body confidence and not being a size zero:
On sample sizes: “It was very frustrating at the beginning. It was really disappointing, and I was like ‘I’m depressed.’ And [frustrated noise] I want to wear color when I have shoots or …. what am I doing? I like to show a little bit, you know? I want wear color, I like neon colors, I like white. I hate that term ‘sample size.’ We’ve gotta come up with a different term than sample size.”
On her daughter: “I’ve had issues with my daughter and her curly hair. She always wants it straight, and now she’s embracing what was given to her. [I tell her] you’re wanna go the gym because you wanna be healthy. Not because you wanna look a certain way, because this is how you were made. You can be a better you, but you’re not gonna [unintelligible] like the next person. So I’m always on top of her because I don’t want her to feel like she wants attention from boys like I did and to feel better about herself.”
Her body image “When I saw myself on screen for the first time in Orange, I was like cringing because I looked so big. I didn’t look curvy, I just looked big. And I felt like, ‘That’s not me.’ So I started working out. You know what? I’m never going to be a size zero,” Polanco said. “And I don’t want to be. I love being thick. I love having things to move around. To twerk with! I just want to keep it together and I want to have it controlled. I want to be able to control it. Not it control me.”
Her fame: “It allows me to love myself more.”
[From Cosmopolitan.com]
LMAO on Dascha learning to love herself as a result of fame. One quick glance at her Instagram page reveals that she thinks very highly of herself. Her hashtags are a nightmare too. Why does#iSMELLGOOD even mean?
Cosmo’s clips are autoplay, but you can watch them here. The second one talks about her unplanned pregnancy. Dascha claims to teach her daughter about positive body image, which is always a good thing. My judgment of her is still clouded. If Dascha wants people to forget her cat controversy, her team should issue a firm denial. Otherwise, I’ll just assume that the story is true and that she’s a terrible person. #hairflipbye
Photos courtesy of WENN
Can people stop whining about their size or bodies in general? This conversation is never ending and useless. It contributes to nothing. You’ll be dust and bones one day. Enjoy yourself while you can.
I agree. So much energy wasted.
SUCH a waste of energy. The older I get, the more I recognize that and the happier I feel. So sad that so many women waste what are probably their most physically attractive years hating their bodies.
I agree that young women waste years hating their bodies. When I was young I hated the way I looked, which was tall, thin, and attractive. Now I’m obviously middle-aged with a few extra pounds but I never spend any time hating my body and actually feel pretty good about it. I only wish I’d enjoyed my younger self.
I don’t have many regrets, but that’s one of them. I thought I was fat for my twenties and thirties – I was a size six. So much angst and wasted energy and yoyo dieting and self hatred, for what? Because I didn’t look like a size two model? I looked just fine, and who cares, anyway? Ugh. Idiot.
Though it’s nice and realistic to see a variety of body types on a show, I have to be Team Not Dascha.
I didn’t know she has a daughter. Hope she doesn’t grow into an awkward phase, she might get traded in!
Yes exactly! I kind of have no patience with this chick since yesterday’s cat story … and I don’t even like cats!
I don’t really like people that much, but I wouldn’t dump my friends in a small box with a couple holes for air in exchange for new ones either.
Yeah, she does something like that… and get more exposure as a result?
She’s also teaching her daughter that living things are disposable trash to be tossed away when you don’t think they’re “cute” anymore.
She’s a terrible f*cking person, end of.
Disgusting. Unforgivable wretch has nothing to teach anybody.
Yes she is. Does it make me a bad person that I feel a little happy her career will likely be over with once OITNB is done?
…… Yes, I’m probably a bad person :S.
@Littlestar-nope, you’re not a bad person.
She has incredibly limited range on OITNB and I don’t see her career going anywhere afterwards either.
I will make sure to get a box large enough for her ego. It will be delivered on a flat-bed truck, of course. She needs to be shipped to another planet. Eight airholes, right?
There’s no excuse for animal abuse.
Exactly, i don’t care for people who trade their pets in for a younger version.
I am not interested in her views or her for that reason…she has lost her importance,she is a cruel individual .
Maybe she needs to be stuffed in a box with a few holes to see how horrific her actions were. And for a bigger than sample size girl, she needs to learn how to dress that body so she’s not dumpy with visible panty lines.
The only excuse I can think of is one of them developed allergies. I was fine until my 20s. Now literally I’ve had to move in church if people have cats at home, at school my students can’t sit near me if they’re cat owners or I sneeze and cry on them all day. But still, there are better ways to handle that.
Avoiding cats because you’re allergic isn’t abusive in any way!
Yes you can be allergic to animals but that is no excuse to be abusive! That’s just plain cruel and I have absolutely no respect and no time for people who are mean animals!
If it was allergies then why did she trade her older cats in for new kittens?
And no, allergies are not an excuse unless they are so severe that you can’t tolerate animal dander in any capacity and believe me, when you have that problem you KNOW it and you don’t suddenly decide to get a pet.
I’m allergic to cats and when I volunteered at a shelter would get TREMENDOUSLY sick from all the cat dander. I tried different medicines and eventually settles on Zyrtec which works great for me.
My brother recently developed an allergy to his 9 year old cat. Once he went through the testing and got confirmation that it was his cat that was making him sick, did he suddenly throw the cat out in a cardboard box? No. He got a prescription from the doctor for nasal spray.
What I’m trying to say is that you exhaust ALL possibilities before you abandon your pet because usually there is a solution and throwing your cat out like it’s trash is NOT the answer. EVER. No excuses given to this awful person.
Yeah, the new kittens thing points to allergies not being the excuse.
But if it was, and a person simply couldn’t live with the animal anymore, you try to find a loving home for it, and if not then you call the rescue group, explain the situation, and deal with it properly. You don’t do what she did.
[[CLAPSLOUDLY]] everything Kitten said. Abandoning a family member and moving on to a younger cuter version of said family member would be seen awful in humans, why is it acceptable to do it to pets? They look to us to take care of them, feed them, and we are their family members! It just seems so cruel to me what she (and other animal abandoners) do to dogs, cats, and other pets.
Get some real love and compassion for animals, may be then we will feel sorry for your weight dilemma. Fair?
All I see is some asshat trying to make herself appealing and sympathetic to people after being outed for dumping her cats.
My stance hasn’t changed, she can f**k off.
She seems like someone who uses bravado to cover up deep insecurities.
That’s totally the impression I get as well!
I’m getting wannabe Sofia Vergara from her. But she dresses awful for her body type (shout out to KK!). I don’t even know who she is and I don’t like her.
Hate so early in the morning.
Her dress sense is horrible. The dress in the top photo gives her t-Rex arms!
Confession of the day: totally trolled* her on insta bout the kitties.
*okay, I’m being melodramatic. I was my usual articulate (cough) and compassionate (COUGH) self.
… And I bet she blocked you and deleted your comments Mimif. Or did she have her friend/workout partner come on to tell you how wrong you are, and how you know nothing about her?
I read some of the drivel and had to flounce, since it was making me so stabby!
Hi mimif!
So you cough…Cough…COUGH-ed her? And that compassionately?!
No wonder she needs to say she loves herself more now.
NOPE. You’re dead to me Polanko.
Her head is so small for her body. All this extra weight look weird on her imo.
She’s a horrible person so yes, i am body shaming her.
Seeing her face still makes me feel so stabby I’m not even going to read this interview. Ugh.
The cat story makes me sick. People who outright abandon their animals are disgusting.
Don’t care what she has to say, she can’t weasel back into my good books by throwing out some generic bo-po shit. Yes, she’s bigger than most of her cast mates, but she’s still smaller than the average woman in America. I personally think ‘sample size’ is pretty inoffensive as a name. It might be wrong that the sample is such a small size, but ‘sample size’ as a phrase could mean anything, it just depends on the context.
If she had developed allergies, or never wanted the cats and her boyfriend wouldn’t take them with him, or she had any other reasonably fair reason for getting rid of the grown cats she could easily make a statement to that effect and then apologise for the box and make a donation to the animal rescue group. That would win her back way more good will than this bullshit.