Miranda Lambert has a feature in the upcoming issue of Self. She shares some sentiments about body image which remind me of what Octavia Spencer has said about these issues. Around Oscar season, Octavia said that “If more women ate, they would be a lot happier.” Octavia also went off on the press for focusing so much on her size and said that the media was sending the wrong message to women. Miranda has some very similar sentiments, but because I’m not as much of a fan I’m not as “Go Miranda” as I would be if someone else were saying it. Is that wrong? She just bugs me for some reason, probably because she seems to pick fights with other celebrities (however warranted) and she maybe homewrecked her way into her current relationship. I do agree with her here. Here’s some of what she said:
“I don’t care about being stick-thin. I don’t want stuff to jiggle. Really skinny actresses make me hungry—I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat! I’m lucky I don’t have to live like that. I feel my best when I’m a toned, not flabby, size 8. Women come up to me and say, ‘You’re beautiful and confident, and that makes me feel I can be, too.’”
“I asked Blake, ‘Dude, why didn’t you tell me I got fat?’ He said, ‘That would go over like a lead balloon. It’s not my job to tell you you’re fat. It’s my job to tell you you’re beautiful.’”
“I absolutely hate exercise. I love it afterward, of course. But my trainer is so nice, I want to do push-ups to please him!”
“I drink Bacardi. My trainer, Bill, approves. I mean, he’d rather me not drink, but that’s not an option.”
The “Randa-rita”: Bacardi, Crystal Light and a splash of Sprite Zero. “I have one before a show and a half during. Later, if I want to throw down, I throw down!”
“I always scarf down food after a show. But now, instead of eating a burger, I’ll have a grilled-chicken salad waiting for me. And except for almonds and bananas, I don’t keep snacks on the bus. I don’t want Cheetos anywhere around me.”
“I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don’t want bodyguards. I am my own security.”
“I’m a small-town girl. When you’re famous, whoever you were before comes out more. So if you were an ass, you’ll be even more of an ass.”
“We eat the meat we kill. Blake and I served it at our wedding! I love it when people are down on me for hunting. If you eat meat at all, I don’t want to hear about it!”
“It’s OK to be fat and lazy sometimes. But eventually you’re, like, Oh crap—I shouldn’t have done that! I gained about 10 pounds over the holidays, and when I got onstage in January, I realized I wasn’t feeling great. I didn’t have the energy or lung capacity I needed. It was a good idea to get strong again.”
“I won’t give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.”
“I don’t mind having a big butt. I actually like that about myself.”
[From Self via KMLE]
I agree with her about hunting. If you eat meat you have nothing to complain about.
I admired Octavia Spencer’s statements on body image, and I like that Miranda has the same opinions. It’s rare to hear someone famous address these issues so bluntly, but we know that Miranda has no problem being blunt. She’s really suited for her husband Blake in that he likes to talk smack too, usually with a few Bacardi and Crystal Lights in him. As for their relationship, Miranda admits that they’re rarely together. She also says she’s threatened him with destroying his trophy deer if he cheats on her. Really. Well “the way you get ’em…” Here’s that part of her interview:
“Blake and I barely see each other. We got married [last May], and we each had so much travel, it was, like, See you next year! There have been challenges the first year, but we faced them. We’re individuals, but together we’re a force to be reckoned with.”
“I think Blake is a bit scared of me. He says he’s not, but I’ve said, ‘If you cheat, I’ll spray-paint all of your trophy deer heads pink.’”
Is there trouble in their relationship? I don’t know, but we know Miranda isn’t BSing about it by any means. She’ll tell it like it is. If Blake does ever cheat on her and she finds out, you know she’ll talk about that too in great detail. Blake is probably way more worried about that than his deer heads.
Miranda is shown at the ACM Awards on 4-1 and at the Kentucky Derby on 5-4. Credit: WENN.com and PCNPhotos
That “cocktail” sounds totally vile.
Actually, it’s pretty good. It’s sort of a sugarless daquiri. I know a LOT of people who mix their drinks with Crystal Lite. Too acidic for me though.
It’s delicious if you get the right Crystal Lite flavour. Red Raspberry and Cherry Pomegranate are fab, and Lemon-Lime is like a daquiri. And for some reason, I find that vodka and Diet Pepsi has a slight vanilla taste … and that just makes it better!
So now the trend is for heavier women to attack women that are thinner.
OK.. so women are wrong no matter what their size. So if someone calls Miranda FAT they are being WHAT?
Lisa, I agree. I think as long as you are healthy and fit, your size doesn’t matter. Some woman have a big frame, some have a small frame, embrace it.
I don’t see it as a trend about attacking skinny women, they’re more attacking the standards that say skinny is pretty. at least that’s how i see it, and i like it.
And i eat meat, but i have an issue with hunting for trophies. if you hunt and use all the meat and such fine, but if you do it just to do it and get trophies, i draw a line there. besides i get so creeped out by taxidermied animals. *shudders*
It’s a double standard. If people don’t want to disparage women about their size, then it should work both ways. What if a thin actress said in a magazine “Honey, you need to stop eating so much!” It wouldn’t go over well (and it shouldn’t). Let’s end the body shame.
I agree! People give me so much grief because I am a size one. I’ve had people ask me if I even eat, if I am “OK”, I am too thin, if I am trying to be a model since I am so thin. It makes me so angry and it makes my husband upset, too. I always assure people I am doing just fine and I have a very balanced and healthy outlook on food and exercise. I eat about 2,000 calories a day and workout three times a week doing High intensity interval training/ circuit training *side note, that get’s you cut!* People still insist though I am not healthy, so it gets really old and I find it offensive considering I am healthy. I always compare the comments I receive as being the equivalent of going up to someone who is a little heavier set and telling them they eat a little too much. It’s rude no matter how you look at it, weight is a double edge sword and you can’t win for loosing. No matter what size you are, people are going to criticize you.
Miranda gets it wrong when she starts saying how skinny girls make her hungry. She is counterproductive with that statement because she is declaring how it bothers her when girls are thin, just like she doesn’t like it when others criticize her for not wanting to be a size zero. We get it, but that does warrant you being able to make snarky remarks about ladies who are slimmer than you.
I disagree, for the past twenty-five years we have been told if you’re not Twiggy or Kate Moss thin, you are basically a fat loser.
The fact that at a size eight when I look at Lambert and think, “She’s full figured and that’s great!” let’s me know that even I have been conditioned to really think that anything beyond a size four is curvy when that is just not true. Miranda is an awesome size. She’s normal, takes care of her body but indulges when she wants to.
There is nothing wrong with naturally being what you are, but HOLLYWOOD women, the majority of them, make a concentrated effort to be less than the size they were meant to be. Every magazine article with an actress on the cover denotes their perfect slender frame, barely there thighs, arms, and ass how perfect they are and the message is that if you’re a woman and you’re not doing everything in your power to get down to size zero or two, then you are fat and lazy.
No one is saying being fat is okay. But no one in the industry is truly praised for saying, I like my body the way it is and I work out and am healthy, but I’m not dying to be thin. The majority of actresses who say this soon drop thirty pounds and turn into bobble heads J-Hud style because they succumb to the standards set by the their peers. And that’s fine because they can afford to do that.
But others can’t and will try to dangerously cut corners to achieve a look that many never happen for them. There is no double standard. Because 6+ girls are constantly thrown shade on the regular. Just look at the photoshopped images of a NATURALLY skinny minnie K-Stew who was made EVEN THINNER on Elle.
I don’t like her but I like what she said about tis for once in her life.
Self-image issues are a bear to correct, but comparing the body shaming lobbed at thin women with that faced by heavier ones is like saying that you understand the full force of the Titanic disaster because you slipped in a puddle.
Personal attacks are harmful and whatever the look may be, it’s the easiest thing in the world to ridicule or be ridiculed at some point for them. A lot of what we look like is determined by a trick of biology over which we can’t be praised or blamed and you can’t be held responsible for other people do or did to those individuals who don’t have the ‘standard beauty criteria’.
Feeling bad about yourself sucks, and that criticism is so frequently unwarranted, but I honestly don’t know how anyone can deny that there’s a difference between how thin ladies are judged and bigger ones are judged. It’s being pushed off a pedestal because for every one person who sinks low enough to denigrate you, there’s a whole planet dying to pick up the pieces for you. No one deserves that treatment and no has the right to dispense it, but don’t forget the instant privilege that comes in degrees with looking as close to that pinnacle as possible.
You don’t control it, but you enjoy it and disingenuous ad campaigns effectively telling women that they’re forgiven for their heaviness speaks to how undervalued that kind of women is and has been, thus racking up sales by pandering to their okay-ness. This is why there are no commercials pushing lard smoothies to add desired bulk to the slim of frame, this is why there are no magazines instructing you with tips on how a specialized weight gain regimen will make you the envy of all of your porky friends.
Who gets called a jealous hater when someone makes cracks about an overweight female body? Who has ever Photoshopped in a double chin? Why haven’t you seen so much as a C-cup in a Victoria’s Secret catalogue or runway? Don’t bustier girls need support–heck even more than the models? Why aren’t there any drugs designed for the sole purpose of making women gain weight, rather than it being a sad side effect of certain treatments? Is there a phrase, ‘Do I look willowy in this?’ Has a bride ever worried about how she’s going to get up to her target weight before the wedding? Is ‘personality’ a pejorative when discussed in regards to a slim woman? And why can’t people stop themselves from saying, ‘Oh, she has such a pretty face…’ without stopping short of the offense? Are we truly concerned her health, or is constructing concern just a way to form the auspices under which unrelenting attacks on the appearance of someone who isn’t even pregnant and therefore has even fewer excuses to be like that with a hint of respectability?
Ridicule’s wrong but perspective isn’t.
SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST
Self-image issues are a bear to correct, but even with the universal hurt understood by all women when it comes to body image, comparing the body shaming lobbed at thin women with that faced by heavier ones is like saying that you understand the full force of the Titanic disaster because you slipped in a puddle.
Personal attacks are harmful and whatever her look may be, it’s the easiest thing in the world to ridicule or be ridiculed of it. A lot of what we look like is determined by a trick of biology, we can’t be praised or blamed and for that, logically. We can’t be held responsible for the attitudes of others or rest the ‘standard beauty criteria’ at the feet of some random person. No argument there.
Feeling bad about yourself sucks, and outside criticism is so frequently unwarranted and absorbed by us leaves a sad mark on all of us, but I honestly don’t know how anyone can deny that there’s a difference between how thin ladies are judged and how bigger ones are judged. Our memories and current experiences with the crappy bullies of the world are vivid in our own minds, so it might feel invalidating when someone questions your anger and frustration sets in because everyone wants to be heard and no one wants to feel dismissed. How dare a person presume to know more about your life than you? They don’t, but they understand the mechanics of widespread cultural values and in this culture being pushed off a pedestal. And in truth, there’s still the fact that for every one person who sinks low enough to denigrate you, there’s a huge amount of support donated to you that others just don’t get. No one deserves that treatment and no has the right to dispense it, but don’t forget the instant privilege that comes with looking as close to that ‘pinnacle’ as possible.
You don’t control it, maybe you don’t recognize it, but you do enjoy a more rareified position and disingenuous ad campaigns effectively telling women that they’re forgiven for their heaviness speaks to how undervalued that kind of woman is and has been, thus racking up sales by pandering to their okay-ness. This is why there are no commercials pushing lard smoothies to add desired bulk to the slim of frame, this is why there are no magazines instructing you with tips on how a specialized weight gain regimen will make you the envy of all of your porky friends.
Who gets called a jealous hater when someone makes cracks about an overweight female body? Who has ever Photoshopped in a double chin? Why haven’t you seen so much as a C-cup in a Victoria’s Secret catalogue or runway? Don’t bustier girls need support–heck even more than the models? Why aren’t there any drugs designed for the sole purpose of making women gain weight, rather than it being a sad side effect of certain treatments? Is there a phrase, ‘Do I look willowy in this?’ Has a bride ever worried about how she’s going to get up to her target weight before the wedding? Is ‘personality’ a pejorative when discussed in regards to a slim woman? And why can’t people stop themselves from saying, ‘Oh, she has such a pretty face…’ without stopping short of the offense? Are we truly concerned her health, or is constructing concern just a way to form the auspices under which unrelenting attacks on the appearance of someone who isn’t even pregnant and therefore has even fewer excuses to be like that with a hint of respectability?
Ridicule’s wrong but perspective isn’t.
That’s why I hate the “real women have curves” thing. So women who are naturally thin aren’t real women? What a great ‘body-positive’ message to send out. I wish people would focus on health and not on size.
YES. I hate that campaign. I don’t have curves and this does not make me any less a ‘real’ woman.
TheOriginalVictoria, I am not saying Miranda doesn’t have a right to her opinion, but it is hypocritical to talk about woman being comfortable with their size and then go ahead and say, skinny actresses make me want to eat! While praising women for not being too slender, she also takes a dig at those who are and I don’t think that is OK.
I do agree that there are a lot of women in the entertainment industry who have an unhealthy outlook on diet and exercise, but it is not fair to generalize all of them as being that way, just like it is not fair to assume that everyone who is an 8+ size overindulges. It is not about being a size, it’s about being healthy, both physically and mentally and people don’t understand that..so in the process we cut others down.
I have been all sizes, at one point a size 9 and I wasn’t healthy! I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without loosing my breath, so I made a conscious effort to change that and make more healthy choices( Not saying everyone who is that size is unhealthy, but I WAS). At that size I received criticism, but when I lost a little weight, I received even more and I realized no matter what size I am, people are going to have their opinion about it. So I disagree,society might send out the message that thin is pretty, but people still judge you no matter what size you are, famous or not.
She’s annoying, and like most country singers, doesn’t know how to dress.
I don’t know her, she doesn’t make much of an impression on me from the interview and I dislike the dresses in the last two pictures, but boy-oh-boy she looks damn good in that gold one!
Gold is totally her colour.
Totally agree.
Country music award shows are like a contest for who could find the fugiest dress ever made… and for safe measure, glued on some additional sequins and rhinestones.
There’s something about her I like. I’m not a country music fan, so I’m not really sure how everything went down between them, but if there’s any truth to the homewrecker rumors I’ll no longer be pro-Miranda or Blake.
As for the hunting, I could never do it, but I can get on board with it if you’re eating what you kill.
everytime she speaks I love her a little more 🙂
She speaks her mind,I like her for that.
I can’t get over her lack of neck, it gives her the appearance? of looking thicker then she really is.
I love my body am so real… Oh this diet thing am just trying to be more healthy… Skinny women suck… Girl power
LMFAO
I’m so sick of this nonsense that if you’re skinny you must not be eating, and here it is again.
How ignorant is someone that they look at a really slim person and think that if she just ate a big mac she’d be a happier person? Not all of us think fattening food equals happiness.
I think she meant the rail-thin women. there’s nothing wrong with being slim, I think she was going more for the point that women would be happier if they struck a balance between healthy eating and exercising, and letting yourself go sometimes. A majority of women in Hollywood never ever let themselves go and most are silently suffering in order to achieve that image. She wasn’t attacking the average woman.
In her defense, I starved myself (and over exercised) to fit into my wedding dress and to be ultra-thin after the birth of my first son. I got down to 108 lbs at 5’7″ and I was miserable because I was ALWAYS hungry. I still over exercise, so I can eat whatever I want, and I’m much happier at 125 (almost 20 lbs heavier). I’m by no means fat (at a size 2 or 4 depending on the brand) but I’m not a size 0 or 00 anymore. There’s thin, then there’s unnaturally THIN. I think she’s talking about the latter.
Being from the South, gotta say I love her. I’m not a redneck by any means, but any woman that can crack a whip and stand on her own two feet is alright by me.
Annnnnd, she’s got awesome legs.
Awesome legs?? they’re toned but so thick!
I agree with some of the PPs, just like people shouldn’t fat shame women, they shouldn’t ‘skinny shame’ women either. Skinny doesn’t mean anorexic and is still healthy!
Really dislike the homewrecker famewhore Miranda.
With ya, Katren. Not only do I think her thick legs are NOT awesome, I think she’s a loud-mouthed home wrecker. When rednecks get money and fame, usually NOT a good combo. Now, a country singer I can actually admire and emulate? Faith Hill. She is a lady, where boisterous, hard drinkin’ Miranda-neck NEVER will be.
shes incredible.
Why diss on all thin actresses, but I have a feeling she is talking only about the ones who monitor their food so strictly that their thinness looks close to or is unhealthy looking. Aka Leann a year ago, en Anniston at the end of Friends, Angelina, Kate Bosworth at times, etc.
I don’t understand the need for her to even go there. Just focus on herself.
Just imagine if a slim celebrity said when they see a heavier person they want to tell them to work out. It is just as obnoxious.
First thought in my head: “Oh shut it, you homewrecker!” Sorry girls- it was my first thought.
Second thought: It’s weird that she was “discovered” on a reality show singing competition (Nashville Star, she came in 2nd place), and now her husband is a judge on the Voice
I cannnot stand her country bumpkin ass! She is soo holier than thou. With her numerous foreheads
I know one woman who is very thin but that’s how she’s built and she eats like a truck driver! Me, I’m around Miranda’s size an 8/10 and I love to eat so I have to work at maintaining my figure. I’m a little envious of my pal who can eat whatever she wants but I really like my figure. And my size 2 pal loves her figure too. I think you should just embrace what you have and be healthy. I do feel bad for models/actresses who have to conform to a certain standard even if they don’t want to…that I have a problem with.
she was asked in an interview and wasn’t about to shy away from it if the internet had existed 35 years ago and Joanne Woodward also a native southerner had said this some would’ve made the same comments about her and she was the same type of woman Miranda is naturally thin and beautiful though she has since retirement from the big screen and more recently the death of her beloved husband of more then 5 decades Paul Newman gained weight from comfort eating and a cancer scare of her own
yay courtney’s back!
Who’s Joanne Woodward? Was she in Twilight?
@jo mama, 😂 I love it!
Oh, why do I hurt when I can help?
Two topics I wish celebrities would give a rest; motherhood and weight gain/loss.
I’ll second that motion.
Look, she not attacking all thin woman, she saying that the image that the media sales is too unrealiatic for most woman…Genetics plays a large part in what size and shape your body is going to settle into….My genes are from naturally large people nordic, big boned , tall, and large framed on one side and mixed with german, another large bones,Scottish , another large bone, and then Cherokee Indain and lastly Irish…as you can see I was pre ordained to be large framed and the one line the Irish won out on my height..LOL I and short and round …and after 50 yrs of fighting it I have enbraced my size..
.I am a Short Round Indian Viking Princess !!!!!
I think she’s a little on the chunky side myself. But she’s right about HW actresses……some are waaaay too skinny and sexless looking.
She probably jealous that she’ll never be really skinny.
I like the fact that she says “Screw the standards, I’m gonna be who I am”. She, along with the rest of us, know that it is not healthy to be overweight, but she doesn’t deny herself something if she really wants it. It’s all about moderation, and I think that is the message that she is trying to get across. It is obvious that some of these celebs do not practice that, instead it’s all about denying themselves so that they can stay scary skinny.
Frankly it bothers me when public figures say anything about other people’s weight. Skinny women are not necessarily unhealthy just as larger women aren’t necessarily unhealthy.
You have to strike a balance and find what makes you happy. Attacking other people by saying they make you hungry doesn’t help. What about the naturally bony girls who feel less like women because of all this talk of ‘real’ women having curves? What do you think that does to their psyche?
I just wish weight wasn’t such a big deal in our society. Love who you no matter if you are thin, fat, buff, toned, jiggly, whatever and mind your own business.
This, all day, every day.
I just don’t see how this is necessary. Different people have different body types – accept that and keep it moving.
She is obviously very jealous of skinny girls. She protesteth to much. We all know damn well she would like to be skinnier or she wouldnt be protesting so much about how happy she is bigger. YET she asks her husband why he didnt tell her she got fat? Which one is it Miranda?
I’m a vegetarian but i totally approve of hunting. If you can eat it then you can kill it. It’s healthier and more ethical. Would you rather live life in a cage and die or die because you were randomly shot?
I feel like people form opinions without actually thinking about issues. Honestly.
Anyone who hunts is a total loser and bagging on skinny girls is no different than bagging on fat girls. Its all bullying behavior.
How dare you call my husband and others who do what makes them happy a loser. You are a loser AND a bully for making those statements alone. Maybe if you yankee women focused more on being genuine instead of bashing each other over what you look like you would be happier. Grow up.
If you can say to me “honey, eat a sandwich” then I should be able to say, consequence free to you, “I think it’s time you put the cheeseburger down”.
Otherwise, it IS a double standard.
Trophy hunting is for losers. With small penises. Plain and simple.
I disagree. I think that’s a false equivalency framed outside of context. Thinner women are promoted, valued and praised in our culture in a way that bigger women aren’t, so while those comments are both disrespectful and the habits can both be indicative of unhealthy living, telling someone to put a cheeseburger down is a more loaded sentiment than saying someone should pick up a sandwich. If I can make an admittedly hyperbolic comparison, it feels to me that this kind of reasoning could be taken to a logical looks-based conclusion of one person saying, ‘You’re looking pale, how about getting some sun?’, and saying, ‘You could stand to be whiter, stay inside until October.’
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Oh no !!! Look at the poor oppressed thin women. I don’t know what it’s like to be fat but I sure do understand that i have privilege because I’m thin. Anyone who denies it can save their bullsh*t for the birds. Insulting thin women is wrong and should not be tolerated. Noone should feel bad for their body but this site is full of hypocrites considering y’all don’t mind insulting Kristen Stewart for having the body of a 12 y/o boy (not my words).
Please, though, do not ever in your life act as if you have it as hard a big women because a couple of people tell you to eat a sandwich. I’ve been told that before and you know what?? I’d rather be told to eat than have people treat me as less than human because I’m fat. Look at tv, music videos, magazines and fashion ads and it’s full of thin women. A plus sized woman would never be seen as a sex symbol the way Rihanna and Katy Perry are. You think if they looked like Jabba the Hut people would look at them twice??? Hell No. Everytime a full figured celebrity celebrates her body…months later, they lose 100 pounds. (Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce at one point, I’m waiting for Xtina).
Lets be real here…most people disguise their disgust for fat people as concern for their health. I’ve never cared about other people’s health except for my family so it’s funny to see people pretend to care about the health of people they don’t know.
How about female celebrities stop talking about weight (they don’t ask male celebrities) and people learn to mind their own business reagrding other people’s weight. Anyone that thinks they can comment on someone else’s weight can eat a bowl of crispy d*cks.
Y’all can all cry about how hard you have it as a thin woman but lets be real here, none of us would switch places with a fat woman.
Newsflash: Thin people eat. Get over it.
Yeah… she looks pretty big in those last couple of pics.
Nothing wrong with her body. She just needs to dress properly.
I guess by deleting my post you are acknowledging that I was on-point about your totally unjustified and invalid criticisms of Miranda, and that you have ulterior motives. Lame.
Weight stories make me want to smash my head against a wall!
Head fat is the hardest to lose
Well, if you’d stop hogging all the food, Hambert…
I’m tired of fat women telling skinny women to eat. Why don’t you put the fork down, honey!