Roseanne Barr is in search of credit score for representing curvy physique varieties in Hollywood.
The actress took to Instagram on Monday (June 26) to share a throwback Vainness Honest cowl from 1994, shot by Annie Leibovitz, by which she’s seen posing on a chair in lacy black lingerie and heels. “When is @lizzobeeating going to thank me for paving the best way. An homage to Botero,” she captioned the submit, tagging Lizzo immediately.
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Whereas Lizzo has but to answer Roseanne’s submit, the “Particular” singer has been an advocate for physique confidence and self-love because the begin of her profession. “Your physique is completely yours, even when it ain’t good to anyone else,” she narrated a strong 2020 social media clip, for instance. “For those who solely knew the complexities your physique possesses, you’ll be so happy with it. I’m so happy with you for making it this far in a society that offers us a head begin into self-loathing, that arms us a dysmorphic mirror and leaves us determined to meet up with who we predict we must be. I’ve spent a lot time on this physique and I’m no completely different than you — nonetheless struggling to seek out stability, nonetheless making an attempt to fix my relationship with meals, my nervousness, my again fats. It will get simpler. I’ve spent my hardest days making an attempt to like me.”
Whereas Roseanne has represented a plus-size physique kind within the media earlier than Lizzo skyrocketed into stardom, the sitcom star’s public discourse has been much less about physique positivity and extra about her weight reduction journey, together with a 1998 gastric bypass surgical procedure and a subsequent tummy tuck. “I had an enormous overhang and I had it taken off,” she informed Individuals in 2003. “It was just a little greater than a tuck.”
“I went on a brand new weight-reduction plan. It’s radical and revolutionary. It’s the place you eat much less and transfer extra—you understand, simply easy,” she later informed TODAY of her weight reduction in 2014. “I simply need to maintain getting wholesome and let go of extra baggage to hold round, so I’m lighter on my ft and in my life.”
