Melissa McCarthy has lost an ass ton of weight in the past year or two, and she looks great. Then again, I thought she always looked great, but she obviously feels healthier and hasn’t gone too extreme or overboard with it, so good for her. However, just because she may be slimmer now than she once was doesn’t mean she’s ready to subscribe to all the Hollywood bullshit about the ideal body size and all that. She’s still repping for the big girls, not only in attitude, but in practice, with her clothing line.
Here’s what she had to say in an interview with Refinery29 about body image and how she approaches the impossible ideals women are faced with on the daily:
“I know I am not the ‘norm.’ It never occurs to me in terms of being a role model, though, because I don’t know any perfect women. If I, off the top of my head, name 20 of the most amazing women in my life, it’s all shapes, sizes, ages, colors, jobs. I can only go off my reality. What people pass off as ‘normal,’ I just have to keep in my head that it’s bullshit. It’s all fictitious, made-up stuff.
I know some of those women in those magazines who get called perfect or whose butt is supposedly better, and often they don’t even look like that in person. And they would die — they don’t want you to compare who wore it better. They would be more horrified than anybody else that you’re pitting them against each other and judging. You don’t do that with guys. You don’t see two guys next to each other and somebody going, ‘Who’s got the better knees? Who’s got old knees? Who’s got weird feet?’
Melissa also said she’d like to change that whole attitude and get everyone to start realizing that we’re all unique and fine just how we are.
“I want to get rid of constantly categorizing. Lists give somebody a way to shove and tear down women. Those women that are always shown, that we’re all supposed to be like, is like .000009% of human beings. That’s crazy. That’s like saying, ‘We’re all going to get a perm and get green hair, right?’ You’d be like, ‘All of us?’ No, knock yourself out with your perm, but if we all did it, that would be bizarre.”
Oh, Melissa, never change. Your clothing line is ugly as sin and looks like it’s made for pensioners, but I’ll always love you regardless.