This is about as snobbish and tone-deaf as one person can be.
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Cheryl Tiegs isn’t happy with Sports Illustrated.
The magazine released three different covers for its annual Swimsuit Issue, featuring Ronda Rousey, Ashley Graham and Hailey Clauson. “It’s a nod to female empowerment,” a source told E! News of the publication’s decision to change up its routine.
But Tiegs, who has been featured on Sports Illustrated‘s covers multiple times, doesn’t agree with the magazine’s choice to feature Graham. Tiegs opened up to E! News Wednesday at the 13th Annual Global Green USA Pre-Oscar Party and said she felt the magazine was promoting an unhealthy lifestyle by featuring her.
“I don’t like that we’re talking about full-figured women because it’s glamorizing them because your waist should be smaller than 35 [inches]. That’s what Dr. Oz said, and I’m sticking to it,” she explained. “No, I don’t think it’s healthy. Her face is beautiful. Beautiful. But I don’t think it’s healthy in the long run.”
Graham, who has said in the past that she hates to be called “plus-size,” was one of Sports Illustrated‘s “rookies” this year and was thrilled to be part of it. On her cover she wears a skimpy purple and yellow-string bikini while posing in the ocean. “I’ve got plenty of friends [of all sizes] and different shapes and everything,” she recently told E! News. “And I don’t want any of them to feel like they aren’t ‘real women.'”
This subject is a personal one with me; so much in fact, that I have taken the time to fire up Microsoft Word to write my response to it. Things are, as the young people of today like to say; about to get real.
My outrage at this most callous and tone-deaf of comments about those who struggle with weight issues, at this point is a mild boil and I feel the need to respond to this tone-deaf, snotty, self-important woman. I would call her a bitch; but that would be an insult to every female dog on the planet.
Cheryl Tiegs in one breathless moment in a press gaggle line has done something that most people would not even remotely think about doing. She insulted every person out there that struggles with weight gain. It is a subject that I know personally too well about. I was not always this way; my weight gain started when I was about 16. I remember the feeling of going out into public, feeling self-conscience, whether people were looking at me and thinking something horrible about my weight gain. It is, as most of those know, that struggle with such things, one of the worst things that one could have to endure.
Weight gain runs in my family. All of my people are heavy. Luckily, my Maternal Grandfather was not a heavy man. He, lucky for him, was a tall thin man. His wife, my grandmother, was not. She was a short heavy woman or full-figured as they call it now. She was not morbidly obese; but she was a full figured woman. In other words, she had some meat on her bones and was not some anorexic looking twig.
The point I am making is this; Mrs. Cheryl Tiegs ought to know better. However, because of her snobbish mentality against those who are not a perfect figured person, or, at least what she considers to be perfect; she felt the need to slam those who are not of the anorexia nervosa build.
Of course, this points to broader problem in Hollywood and in the media in general. Looks and more specifically a woman’s look are scrutinized to the point of total and utter ridiculousness. This is a reflection of society in general and gives much insight into the fickleness of the ever so coveted “popular crowd.”
As a parting shot, let me just this: Those who are in dire need of a Botox treatment session and those, of whom looks are fading faster than a 1970’s Kodiak picture moment, should not be going around being critical of someone’s looks.
So, to Mrs. Cheryl Tiegs I say this: You really should not be casting stones, as your glass house — it has cracks.
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