![]() If we share clips of the salad we’re eating for lunch, maybe they’ll recognise that we are ‘health-conscious.’ If we exude a kind of hyper-femininity at all times, at least we’ll be slightly more palatable. If we post daily gym selfies, at least people will know we move about. It’s an often unspoken (once in a while, spoken) fact that fat women will be better received by society at large if they somehow make recompense for their fatness. “The level of femininity fat girls have to perform to not be seen as ugly or weird is phenomenal,” plus size style and beauty blogger Stephanie Yeboah recently tweeted, and she’s not wrong. “It’s okay for thin women to be emblems of the ‘lazy girl trend,’ an entire aesthetic rooted in looking like you haven’t spent more than two minutes getting ready because you’re just that chill” ![]() Both sartorial and regular, old laziness seem perfectly acceptable if delivered in thin, conventionally pretty packages. Nevermind that the word ‘lazy’ is one often used to shame or ridicule fat people, who are perpetually accused of being undisciplined and inactive. It’s okay for thin women to be emblems of the ‘lazy girl trend,’ an entire aesthetic rooted in looking like you haven’t spent more than two minutes getting ready because you’re just that chill. It’s okay for thin women to slip into stretchy jumpsuits, wear plain tees or crop tops with a trusted pair of mom jeans, or eschew makeup altogether in favour of a more ‘natural’ look. When I’m in a group of thin women, I am instead mesmerised by how effortless their ensembles look. Or at least, they’ll never know the degrees and layers of fatness that exist there. No one walking past us will necessarily know whether we have cellulite or stretch marks or rolls of fat lurking beneath our garments. The latter frame our waists while hiding everything below them: the softness of our bellies and thickness of our thighs are made invisible. They transform us into perfect hourglasses that wouldn’t look out-of-place beside Marilyn Monroe. The former show off the voluptuousness of our bodies. Our curves will typically be highlighted through either pencil or swing dresses. Most of our pouts will be lined in red, and atop our heads rest perfectly curled curls or sleek, straightened fringes. It is not unusual for us all to be rocking full faces of make-up. They added that their life since coming out has been full of “moments of happiness and moments of bliss and joy that are so fulfilling”.When I’m in a group of fellow fat women, I often catch myself mesmerised by the attention to detail they have each put into creating an outfit. “My masculine and feminine energy are equal, so much so that I may be wearing a dress and heels right now, but I don’t identify as just a woman, or just a man, I identify as both.” In an interview with Today’s Hoda Kotb, they said: “The way that I explain being non-binary to people, or gender non-conforming, is for me personally – I can’t speak to everyone in their experience – when I came to the realisation that I am equally as masculine as I am feminine. ![]() Last month, Demi Lovato opened up more about their gender identity since coming out as non-binary, described their gender as “equally masculine and feminine”. Demi Lovato is ‘equally masculine and feminine’ They added that when they see photos of themselves on the red carpet as a teenager, “I feel like I’m not looking at me, but I recognise that that was a part of my journey”. “I don’t know who that person is, because the person I am today with short hair, and the person that I’ve been over the past year publicly, I mean, that’s who I feel like I am.” Lovato explained: “It’s hard when I see older images of myself looking super hyper feminine, that maybe fans make into fan art, and they don’t mean anything by it, but it’s like, I look at that fan art and I think that’s not me. Speaking recently at The 19th Represents 2021 Virtual Summit, they discussed the experience of seeing themselves with a different gender expression. Lovato came out as non-binary earlier this year, and revealed to the world that their pronouns are they/them. Demi Lovato finds it “hard” to see fan art and photos of themselves from before they came out.
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