What is the Ideal Body Type for a Black Woman?
With changing beauty standards, fetishization, stereotypes and an increase in fillers and surgeries, it’s hard for some Black woman to feel like their body is enough.
It’s hard to imagine a time when women were made fun of having full lips and a big butt. But because the beauty standard is constantly changing, that time was not too long ago. Today we see people melt over someone who looks like a Kardashian, a family who uses surgeries and filler to have Black features like full lips and a bigger bottom. More people are considering them the ideal body and face and the amount of plastic surgery has significantly increased over the years as well as the “BBL.” It’s now the thing to have a very tiny waist and big butt that is almost physically impossible to achieve naturally.
For most Black women, our lips tend be full and hips wide. With Black women being fetishized at such a young age, we are expected to have these features while our counterparts basically try to be caricatures of us.
In this episode, we discuss our relationship with our bodies and how we perceive body image. Janae talks about her struggle of being a 6 foot tall women and how she felt less feminine and more of an outsider in school. She felt very ugly because of her height, size, and blackness. “In my head I saw myself as shrekish.”
Amari discusses overcoming rumors about her body and how people’s comments about her body led to some issues adjacent to eating disorders.
Growing up very thin and people telling her she doesn’t eat enough, Kia explains feeling “less Black” by having an atypical body type in the Black community. Seeing video vixens in Hip Hop videos and being accustomed to stereotypes about the Black body can lead into feeling more like an “Oreo.”
The conversation takes a turn on dealing with negative comments from family members and the hosts take a moment to give themselves some self loving comments on air. Rachel speaks on addressing eating disorders in the Black community and Janae recites a body positive poem by Maya Angelou.
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