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Feel-Good Friday: I Don't Want to Be a Skinny Celeb

January 30th, 2009

I don’t know who Alesha Dixon is. I know that she is British, smokingly hot, and according to her extensive and detailed Wikipedia page, she danced her way to fame in the television series Strictly Come Dancing, the show that became Dancing with the Stars in the U.S. She’s also a model, was a singer in a girl band and then launched a solo career, has appeared elsewhere on television, and has this to say about her body:

The singer and ex-Strictly Come Dancing star would rather embrace her womanly figure than become another skinny celeb.

“I lost loads of weight when I did Strictly and hated being thin,” she reveals. “I was like, ‘No! You’re supposed to look like you’ve got a bit of meat on you – that’s what men like’.”

Alesha, 30, wishes women would stop comparing themselves to super-thin celebs.

She says: “It does my head in that we all want to look like someone to feel good. We’re our own worst critics and we need to stop.”

So I know something else about her–she is awesome.

Posted by jenfu

Filed under: Celebrities, Feel Good Friday, International, Media

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11 Responses to Feel-Good Friday: I Don't Want to Be a Skinny Celeb

  1. CindyS, on January 30th, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said:

    Well, she IS smokin’ hot, fit, athletic-looking … what exactly is the issue here? I’d take a bod like that over Keira Knightley’s any day. I know KK is naturally thin, but every time I see her I just want to give her a sandwich.

  2. jenfu, on January 30th, 2009 at 2:09 pm Said:

    No issue. She is hot, she likes her body, likes to eat, doesn’t want to be skinny, and that is awesome. Hooray.

  3. Yorke, on January 30th, 2009 at 3:15 pm Said:

    Other than her declaration of “that’s what men like,” her attitude sounds good. I wish she would have left that hetero normative misogyny out of it, though. Because we all know women are just objects for teh menz, right?

  4. Cindy, on January 30th, 2009 at 4:13 pm Said:

    What Yorke said!

  5. pennylane, on January 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pm Said:

    That was my first thought, too, Yorke. The language of “supposed to look like” is troubling. True, not comparing ourselves with other bodies is good, but is it better to replace it with “male approved” bodies?

  6. goodbyemyboy, on January 30th, 2009 at 10:50 pm Said:

    Agreed with all that’s been said so far. Also the “male approved bodies” thing really only increases the upper limit of “acceptable” fat a little bit anyway, rather than embracing real fat acceptance. The whole “curvy, not fat” thing.

  7. Em, on January 31st, 2009 at 3:12 pm Said:

    Yeah, because saying that men prefer a size 4 with big tits to a size 2 with small tits is the absolute zenith of body-friendliness and feminism. yay

  8. bethany, on January 31st, 2009 at 6:05 pm Said:

    I agree with everybody and don’t think men’s opinions should at all set standards for what makes a beautiful female body — though I also think that for most of us single, straight women, it is a standard we think about pretty often…even if in theory we find it deeply troubling.

  9. nati, on February 1st, 2009 at 1:14 am Said:

    is this like when matthew mcconaughey said he liked curvy women…but he meant like kim kardashian…every fat girl in america got a simultaneous hard on. sorry ladies…every one has a dif def of plus and fat and curvy…

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  11. Marlin Vatter, on May 11th, 2010 at 2:59 am Said:

    Alisha’s one brilliant singer

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