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Rutendo Chidawanyika
IN recent years a lot of campaigns have been pitched to try and include the curvy mammas in the fashion scene. It has taken a while but we have plus size fashion models, bloggers, presenters and dancers that are flourishing in the industry. Just because the industry is beginning to accept the big girls it doesn’t mean their problems automatically disappear.
Being curvy is totally okay, except that it’s not because everyone else around you is more bothered about it than you are, and that ends up bothering you. Everyday, there’s something or the other waiting to tick off a plus size girl, because of people.
There are so many moments you have to encounter where people treat you differently because you don’t fall under the ‘‘normal size’’ category. As sad as it sounds that is the reality of being a plus size girl. Some may not want to interact or associate with you because of your weight.
You will always get half compliments such as “You have such a beautiful face.” “For a fat girl, you dance really gracefully.” “Man, if you lost weight, you’d look so damn hot.” Which shouldn’t discourage any thick girl because truth be told even the skinny girls secretly want to have some flesh on their bones, (they wont admit it though).
From the moment you wake up to the moment you sleep, everything around you is a constant reminder of your size. Models on the runway. Articles on diet, the never ending adverts about weight loss remedies. Pop ups on the internet about exercise and slimming creams. And then SOCIAL media, Instagram and Snapchat among others. This is where people post all the healthy food, pictures of themselves pretending to work out in the gym and slimming teas. Society will deem a certain body size as sexy and anything else is considered unacceptable.
Listening to people telling you over and over which colours will slim you down and make you look a certain way such as black or darker colours. You cannot wear black all your life unless its your thing but black is not everyone’s thing. Thick girls can wear nudes, whites and peach as well.
Then the designers will try and limit the curvy girl by making garments a certain size. Now you are forced to buy in the section where t-shirts are made to look like tents. Plus-sized stores are even more pissing off than regular stores, because by their logic, bigger people don’t like wearing nice things like tank tops and dresses. Nope. All of us like to wear long-sleeved dusters with ugly flowery prints on them.
You are constantly being told to stop eating the food you eat and join the gym. Or how if you lost a few kilos it would make a lot more difference. Some ladies can’t even do certain hairstyles because they are told their faces are fat.
Well . . . plus size ladies are paving their way into the fashion industry. The greatest plus about the thick women is that they represent African women.
African women are not skeletal and they starve themselves to look like western models. Embrace who you are, you are perfect as you are.
It will only get better for the plus size girls because they never let society deter or detect how they should feel about fashion. Power to the thick mammas.
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