If you lived in the 90’s and 2000’s , the Raven is no new face or name to you. The That’s So Raven actress says she suffered body shaming when she was growing up.
According to her, people would actually put it in her face how fat she is as if she did not know her weight adding that she was told not to eat on the set of the Cosby Show at a point and that she believes contributed to her mental break down.
“I wish I was living now as a younger person. I probably wouldn’t have so many mental issues.
(They said) I was too big to be doing an hour and a half concert. ‘I don’t know how she can dance being that big.’ And I was like, ‘I still did it.
I was on tour forever because it’s not about your size, it’s about what you have to say, if you can sing or dance, and performing. It’s not about your size.
I love embracing your body. In this day and age you have all kinds, and it’s funny, it’s serious, it’s every color, it’s every head shape, it’s every hair. And there’s androgyny, and there’s LGBT coming in, and it feels good. We didn’t have it enough last time and I guess that’s what the past is for — to make sure the present is what it needs to be.
The world is too big to have one sort of view to show beauty, because then you are literally destroying society. You are literally destroying it. And then you want to talk about how we are judgmental to each other and this and this. But it’s being created in the industry that we’re in. So why not break the mold?”
