Hollywood, and society in general, have a huge problem when it comes to weight: people love to fat shame.
It really makes no sense. The weight of others is literally no one’s business but that person themselves, but people still feel the need to go ahead and shame others!
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For women especially, society really wants them to look a certain way. Recently, Sharon Osbourne opened up about that very fact.
Now that everyone is in quarantine, a lot of talk shows have moved to at home streams! That includes *The Talk*.
And this week, hosts Sharon Osbourne, Marie Osmond, Sheryl Underwood, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Eve Jeffers-Cooper, were discussing fat-shaming.
They talked about Valerie Bertinelli, who revealed that a teacher had once patted her on the belly and commented on her weight.
This sparked a much larger conversation about body image (especially when it comes to women in Hollywood), and the hosts revealed what they have gone through themselves.
“It’s so inappropriate,” Sharon Osbourne said.
“I get that, years back, people understand what it could do to a child mentally. I used to get fat-shamed by my brother and then, you know, my brother used to get his friends to join in and it sticks with you.”
She noted that her weight, like most people, has fluctuated over the years. We should expect no less, tbh.
“It’s been going on for hundreds of years, people going on about people’s weight and it never will end.” she said.
After Sharon opened up so candidly about what she experienced, Marie Osmond did the same.
“I was shamed my whole career,” Osmond said. “The first Donny and Marie show fitting for the pilot. I was 14-years-old and I remember the designers were looking at me and they were talking about me like I wasn’t there.
“This guy goes, ‘…maybe we can get her a girdle.’ It was like I wasn’t even there.”
“And then he looks at me and goes, ‘Have you ever thought about taking a water pill?’ It hurts. It sticks with you.”
Obviously, there is a huge problem in Hollywood (and in society) when it comes to fat-shaming, and somehow, someway, we need to put a stop to it.
Whether it happens to women or men, it haunts people for the rest of their lives, and that’s not okay.
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