Post 25 pound weight gain and subsequent media outlash, Lady Gaga created a subsection of her website and called it Body Revolution.
“Be brave,” she writes, “and celebrate with us your ‘perceived flaws,’ as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.”
I am beyond happy that Lady Gaga is doing to body image issues what she did to bullying: getting it out in the open, raising awareness, and working to stop it. The majority of the media reacted to her weight gain in a negative way that just perpetuates the world’s obsession with being thin and achieving what is perceived as the ideal body. The reaction was so unfortunate and saddening because Gaga is not fat – she merely looks like a regular person instead of an unrealistically frail pop star. Gaga’s positive spin on the situation will hopefully eradicate such a narrow view of beauty, and slowly but surely convey to young people the truth that insecurity is pointless, our personal beauty consists of flaws, and that it’s ok to be confident in exactly who you are.
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