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After the singer was criticized for looking heavier in pictures taken at a cancer benefit, she defended her body.
“I am perfectly fine, perfectly happy, and my healthy, voluptuous and crazy strong body is having some much deserved time off,” the singer tweeted.
Jennifer Lawrence
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During the early days of J-Law’s career, she was told to lose 15 pounds in two weeks for a role.
She was also made to stand nude in a line of thinner girls and use the photographs as “body inspiration.”
Thankfully, the ‘Hunger Games’ actress refused to change her body for anyone.
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Ashley Graham
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After a model scout advised Ashley to lose weight at the start of her career, even her father agreed.
“I was 15, standing in our living room having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight and it hurt,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Ashley’s mom intervened, prompting her self-love journey.
“She told me, ‘You’re like all of the women in our family. You’re like so many women in the world.'”
Ashley went on to dominate the fashion industry and become one of the most famous body-positive advocates.
Amber Riley
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She decided to stop going to auditions because she didn’t want to “conform and hurt [her]self” to reach a certain size.
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Staying true to herself worked out: she had a main role on Glee and she’s set to star in the upcoming NBC series, Dream.
Sam Smith
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The singer got candid about their body issues in 2019.
“In the past, if I have ever done a photoshoot with so much as a t-shirt on, I have starved myself for weeks in advance and then picked and prodded at every picture and then normally taken the picture down,” they wrote on Instagram.
After years of giving in to this pressure, they fought back.
In a powerful post, Smith wrote, “Yesterday I decided to fight the [expletive] back,” Smith posted on Instagram in February. “Reclaim my body and stop trying to change this chest and these hips and these curves that my mum and dad made and love so unconditionally.”
Ashley Benson
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The Pretty Little Liars actress has been told to lose weight many times over the years. Each time, she refused.
“I feel good,” she told Health. “I don’t want to lose 20 lbs., because I don’t need to. I’m a size 2, but I think that size 4 is healthy. I think that all of these sizes are healthy.”
Gigi Hadid
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People judge models in many ways: the way they walk, the size of their bodies, and the jobs they book.
Gigi Hadid knows this scrutiny well. When she first got started modeling, she was treated differently because of her athletic body from years of playing volleyball.
After being heavily criticized during Paris Fashion Week in 2015, she fought back.
“Your mean comments don’t make me want to change my body,” she wrote. She also said, “No, I don’t have the same body as the other models in shows…I’m not the first or last model of my type in this industry…I’m a hard worker that’s confident in myself, one that came at a time when the fashion industry was ready for a change.”
Jameela Jamil
“We aren’t supposed to all look the same,” The Good Place star wrote in an article for HuffPost UK.
“And nothing good ever comes of self-hatred. It will never further you. It will always hold you back.”
Beyoncé
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After the singer was criticized for putting on some weight around the age of 19, she channeled that frustration into the self-love anthem, “Bootylicious.”
“It was the beginning of me using whatever life handed me and turning it into something empowering to other women and men who were struggling with the same thing,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
Kate Winslet
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The Titanic actress has taken it upon herself to show what a middle-aged woman actually looks like.
“My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn’t expect it to after three babies,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
Lili Reinhart
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While the Riverdale actress could aim for a size 0 body to show off on TV, she prefers to be a healthy role model for other young women.
She even told a fan on Twitter that she did a bra and underwear scene for the show despite having gained some weight.
Liv Tyler
“I’ve been told that if I lose weight, I’d have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards,” the actress said in 2003.
She’s lived by those words since then. “To the rest of the world I am slim, and I like the way I am.”
Kirsten Dunst
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After director Sofia Coppola advised Kristen to lose weight for Beguiled, Kristen refused.
“It’s so much harder when you’re 35 and hate working out…I’m eating fried chicken and McDonald’s before work,” Kristen told Variety. “So I’m like, ‘We have no options! I’m sorry I can’t lose weight for this role.’”
Patricia Arquette
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Standing up for her body has hurt the actress financially.
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“There were times I turned down movies when I needed work financially, when I had a newborn, because the roles were inappropriate, or the director was inappropriate or unethical. That is another reason I feel the way I do about gender pay equality.”
Amy Schumer
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Kelly Clarkson
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As a proud body-positive advocate, Kelly made a decision long ago not to conform to beauty standards. She’s not a size 0 and she’s proud of it!
“No one actually cares about your health…they just care about aesthetics,” she told Redbook.
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