I never realized how skinny Kerry Washington was until I watched her almost sex scene in “A Thousand Words,” which needs only two syllables to explain how awful it was. After I made it past that concrete pout, Washington’s body stood out to me for two reasons. The leather lingerie equipped with tassels, a utensil for spanking and moon boots barely fit her physique and the meat that once hugged her bones in such films as “Save The Last Dance” or “I Think I Love My Wife,” was gone. With the second season of “Scandal” locking in millions of viewers by the episode and “Django Unchained“ leading every headline on the Internet, it appears that Kerry is ever-shrinking and fitting more and more into a White Hollywood body prototype.
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Jennifer Hudson was once a voluptuous girl. Even though “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell harshly critiqued her fashion sense every other week, which I though was also jabs at her weight, I know millions of females her size who had a specific reverence for her because she represented something other than the “ideal” Hollywood figure. She was what they’d call “a real woman.” And that isn’t to say that Kerry or Zoe Saldana and the rest of the svelte celebs aren’t real women, but we have plenty of reference points for average and not many for the “realistic.” We don’t blame J Hud for shaping up. We commend her on her weight loss because only those in her position know how much dedication it takes to shed pounds, but for the girls who are still in that influential age, jogging an extra lap in Junior High School gym class or picking meat off their hamburger buns so they can enjoy a lettuce diet at lunch like Beyonce, know that it’s alright to be the size they are?
