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Smoking' Hot celebrities ridiculed for their bodies

If you’re like the rest of us, you may have a love-hate relationship with what you see in the mirror: good day, bad day, skinny day, fat day- the yo-yoing critique of our bodies and physical appearances plays out in the mirrors at home, and is reflected in tabloid covers lambasting celebs for cellulite or weight gain.

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Banks

Criticized throughout the past decade for her weight gain post-modeling, Banks has fought back against the body hate. “Sure, I was stompin’, and I know guys were like, ‘Woo, look at Tyra,'” she said. “But I know that my body being thicker on that runway meant something. A lot of the things I did in my modeling career as a woman of color was part of that feminism — of expanding the definition of beauty and making women feel beautiful, no matter what color their skin is.”

Banks told the Guardian that “I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous. Victoria’s Secret said I sold more bras and panties than anybody else, and I was traipsing down that runway with 30 pounds more booty than the other girls.”

Barrymore

In an interview with Elle magazine, the incredibly grounded (and likeable! no wait, scratch that, loveable!) Barrymore discussed the media’s body criticism, which she has experienced throughout the course of her career. “If you’re too thin, they kill you and if you’re too fat, they kill you. There’s no such thing as perfection and someone else’s definition of it is not good enough for me.”

After giving birth to her second child, Barrymore sat down with People magazine, and discussed the difficulty of losing the baby weight. “It took nine months to build. It should take nine months to get off. I wanted fettuccini alfredo. I didn’t want a barbell. “I was like, ‘Don’t talk to me about how fast and fabulous you are or it came off.’ That was not my experience. I’m having to work my ass off until I even think about getting it off.”

Beyonce

Knowles told Shape magazine that, while her weight has fluctuated over the years, she feels that her struggle to accept her body is a common one for all women- a struggle that coined the term “bootylicious”, in fact. “I wrote that because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun, and the song was just telling everyone to just forget what people are saying, you’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies,” Knowles said.

In an interview with Teen Vogue, Knowles said that, “The best thing I can say to young ladies is accept the body you’re in. If you have curves, love your curves. The thing to strive for is to have the best healthy body you can have. It’s really not about being skinny or being curvy. What matters is that you love yourself and you are taking care of your health.”

Khloe Kardashian

Tabloids have made a sport of criticizing Khloe Kardashian’s weight and appearance. Although Kardashian has recently lost a significant amount of weight and has become something of a gym-body, she rightfully maintains that the criticism heaped upon her has been unfair and unjust. According to Kardashian, “I live in a world where there’s magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.” “I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off… Who cares if I’m not a size zero? I don’t want to be. I love my body; I’m healthy, I work out.”

According to Kardashian, she believes that physical appearance should never be grounds for judgment or criticism. “My father raised us like, we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, ‘Oh that fat person, or this person,’ he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren’t allowed to look at people like that.”

Stone

Criticized for her weight loss since coming onto the Hollywood scene, Stone told Seventeen magazine that “It can be really challenging in today’s world for anyone — especially girls and women — to feel good about their bodies. No matter how things look from the outside, we can all be super critical of ourselves and of our image in the mirror. I’ve seen articles or comments that have addressed my weight, or ‘caving to pressure to be thin.’ Keeping weight on is a struggle for me — especially when I’m under stress. When completely untrue statements are made about me or my health, of course a part of me wants to defend. Thing is, people have a right to imagine what they want to imagine.”

Stone went on to say that she manages the criticism by being kind and honest with herself and practicing healthy habits. “My job at those moments is to tell myself the truth. Am I taking care of myself in a healthy way? Am I respecting myself and being responsible? And over and over, I answer yes to that question. Then I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps,” Stone explained.

Lambert

Criticism of Lambert’s weight was a regular occurrence for the singer, but the harsh critiques only increased as she became more popular. Unflattering photos splashed across tabloids were an everyday issue. “They were fan pictures shot from down below and you look like you have four chins, or it’s from the side and your arm’s pressed against your body,” Lambert explained to Women’s Health, in an interview regarding her decision to lose weight. Lambert told the magazine she lost the weight by reducing portion size, limiting alcohol consumption, and avoiding guilty pleasure snack foods.

Lambert told Marie Claire that “When you have to walk out there in front of thousands of people, it does feel good to know that your s—t’s not jiggling. I’m just like anybody else, insecure and scared of looking bad or being criticized. But everybody’s making this big, giant thing about it. It’s way too much focus on women’s bikini photos, and I hate it. Why do we care? I want women to love themselves whatever they’ve got going on.”

Jennie Runk

Model Jennie Runk has been featured in ads for H&M and Marina Rinaldi. The plus size model spoke to Elle magazine about the need to have healthy conversations with teens about their struggles with weight. “As a teenager, I was bigger in every single way than the other girls. It was really hard for me to wake up and go to school every day. But every teenage girl feels like that, and every teen girl thinks she’s the only one that feels like that. We need to start talking about it, so maybe their friends will say I feel that way, too.”

Runk told Elle that, growing up, “My sister and I would have conversations about how many girls’ thighs seemed to be the size of our arms, or their waists were the size of one of our thighs. I had friends in school who were a foot shorter than myself, and a size 2, pinching their tiny bellies at lunch talking about how much weight they absolutely have to lose, because they’re really letting themselves go. At the time, I was wearing a size 8. When someone who is less than half your size calls herself fat, you end up questioning what you should be calling yourself. These kinds of conversations need to change.”

- WomensHealth

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