14 DAY TRIAL // Kelly Clarkson refuses to be fat-shamed or be told that she must put a little more effort into shifting the pounds she gained while pregnant with her first child. British TV personality Katie Hopkins, aka the self-titled “most hated woman in Britain,” can take her criticism and shove it.
The singer stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show the other day and the question of the attention she’s been getting for her weight came up. Hopkins’ name didn’t, but she was the one who started it when she went on TV and social media saying Clarkson was using her kid as an explanation for her failure to lose weight.
The fat-shaming isn’t new
Clarkson already addressed Hopkins’ nasty comments by saying she had no intention of listening to what a perfect stranger said about her body, especially not when she was healthy and the happiest she’d ever been.
Speaking to Ellen (video below), she stresses that this isn’t exactly a new situation for her: she’s been fat-shamed for the past 13 years constantly, starting with the moment she auditioned on the first season of American Idol. She ended up winning the competition, but that didn’t make the attention on her weight die down.
Whenever she hears someone say something negative about her, Kelly brushes it off: she has developed a thick skin by now.
“I think what hurts my feelings for people is that I'll have a meet and greet after the show and a girl who's like bigger than me will be in the meet and greet and be like, ‘Wow, if they think you’re big I must be so fat to them,’” she adds. “And it's like, you're just who you are. We are who we are, whatever size. And it doesn't mean that we're gonna be that forever.”
Weight fluctuations happen
Kelly knows a lot about that last part, with her weight fluctuating a lot since the first day she emerged on the scene.
She’s been toned and slim, she’s been toned and curvy, and she’s been heavy: Kelly Clarkson’s weight varies depending on the stage she’s at in life. She explains that, as a creative person, she has periods when she feels like doing intense workouts, and times when she’d rather just have a glass of wine.
Obviously, her weight varies according to this. She will not have Katie Hopkins or anyone else dictate what she should do in life to be happy. Kelly’s got this.