14 DAY TRIAL // Thin doesn’t always equal healthy, just like fat doesn’t necessarily mean unhealthy, singer turned plus-size model and fashion designer Beth Ditto says when asked about body image.
The singer, who has long stood up to speak up for curves and how thin shouldn’t be norm, is stressing again that a thin person is not necessarily a healthy person.
Therefore, the cult of the thin model must go, Ditto seems to be saying in a recent interview cited by Jezebel.
Often criticized for being a role model just as worse as a size 0 girl because she’s indirectly telling her fans that being overweight is ok, Ditto strikes back: don’t judge until you know the person you’re judging.
“I’m not an unhealthy person and I feel like one of the most tiring parts of being fat and being proud of it is… you do a lot of proving yourself all the time,” the singer says.
As for how thin people (women, in particular) are almost always considered healthy, that’s just wrong, for the simple reason that they could do some very unhealthy things to stay this slim.
“It’s really interesting to me that people will look at a thin person and go, ‘That’s a healthy person.’ I want to go, ‘Come open my refrigerator and look and then let’s talk about what you think is so bad’,” Ditto says.
To really be healthy and to only look healthy are two very different things and sometimes people simply don’t stop to think about them.
“To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes... some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier,” the singer explains.
Speaking of the lengths one would go to in order to lose weight, over the weekend, the ex-husband of Kat Von D, who’s now dating Jesse James, said she would often do drugs to be thinner.
“She’s the most self-centered person I’ve ever been involved with. Toward the end of our marriage… she was wanting to get liposuction, and she was taking drugs in order to lose weight,” Oliver Peck said of his ex’s unhealthy habits.
If Peck is telling the truth, then, indeed, Beth Ditto is on the mark: not all those who appear to be healthy are actually so.