OITNB’s Big Boo Strips To Promote Positive Body Image, Says “Fat Isn’t Ugly”


If you watch Orange Is The New Black (OF COURSE YOU DO), you know Big Boo is the baddest bitch out, excl. Crazy Eyes.

So is the actress who plays her, Lea DeLaria, who stripped down to her dacks for a video promoting self<3 among women.
Filmed for StyleLikeU, it shows the 57-year-old at various stages of strip-down while spouting forth pearls of wisdom on the issue of positive body image. 
Zingers include:
“I am a proud fat woman, period. We live in a fat-ist society that expects, especially of women, certain things, especially around their weight and it’s bullshit. I would say I read Fat as a Feminist Issue [the controversial book], but halfway through I got bored and ate it.”

“It freaks me when I am standing next to a woman who is maybe 100 pounds soaking wet, talking about how fat she is. Men can weigh any fucking weight they want. The can be any weight they want. No one gives them shit about it.”

“Obesity in an issue. I get it, it’s a problem. It causes a lot of things that people need to be aware of, right? But the flip coin of that is it’s mostly genetics and there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just that simple. Fat is not ugly. In fact, it’s quite beautiful.”

Also, props to anyone comfortable enough to call themselves “Fatty Fatty Man Girl” in a public forum:
Lea has been engaged to her long-time girlfriend Chelsea Fairless since February, when they announced their future union with this amazing Jackson montage.

Via YouTube/StyleLikeU.

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