Zendaya Got Bodyshamed For Being Too Thin, And Hit Back Accordingly
Sometimes all it takes for the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards to be relevant again is for a grown woman to body shame a 19-year-old actress for being just another piece of “thinspo” for “impressionable tweens.”
Just kidding, Nickleodeon, nobody cares about your award show, we just care about what went down when Zendaya got bodyshamed.
It all started so simply. Zendaya had just won the award for Favorite Female TV Star for her role in Disney’s K.C. Undercover, and The Hollywood Press ran this tweet about it:
#KCAs: @Zendaya Thanks Parents for “Allowing Me to Be a Role Model for Your Children” https://t.co/PK7pMgWyeZ pic.twitter.com/ejSjTLLD1r
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 13, 2016
Immediately things got complicated because Julie Klausner, star of Hulu series “Difficult People,” didn’t agree about Zendaya’s role model status.
And thinspo model for your impressionable tweens https://t.co/ZUwTcgoQml
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
Zendaya’s ultimate retort to Giuliana Rancic is starving herself down to the size of one of her elbowz
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
For the record, this is what Zendaya looked like last year BEFORE Giuliana Rancic said that racist comment about Z’s faux dreds.
Serving a Diana Ross inspired moment😏😘 @luxurylaw
A photo posted by Zendaya (@zendaya) on
Clearly Julie is right: Z is super guilty of starving herself down to the size of one of her elbowz…not.
Julie went on:
You don’t have to have an eating disorder to attend the Kids’ Choice Awards….but it helps!
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
I will never stop criticizing celebs who perpetuate dangerous beauty standards for a generation of girls who grow up thinking they’re fat.
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
And you know those public fat shamers who fake “concern” for Melissa McCarthy’s health? Consider me your fire with fire.
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
I’m concerned with the generation of girls who aspire to look like Zendaya. I do not worry about Zendaya’s health or care whether she eats.
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
FYI Zendaya and her fans are angry bc I insinuated this isn’t a healthy look. The end. https://t.co/ZUwTcgoQml
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
Let’s just say Zendaya was not impressed:
Do you find this funny? I will write another paragraph to educate you aswell #youreallywannabenext? https://t.co/z6dXOJ3Tai
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) March 13, 2016
Now….everyone go look in the mirror at their beautiful body, and love that shit😘 #thickgirlswinning #skinnygirlswinning #weallwinning
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) March 13, 2016
Not that Julie was worried:
Zendaya’s threat to write another paragraph is more dread inducing than Kim Jong Un’s fronting about the bomb he has https://t.co/GK6Qc0ePPJ
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 13, 2016
Ultimately, even though Julie is right in thinking that some may look at photos of Zendaya and think that in order to be beautiful they need to look like that, Zendaya clearly has the bigger point here: instead of hating on other women or hating on ourselves, it would be great if women of all ages and sizes loved the skin they’re in.
Still, we can’t wait to see what that paragraph says.
$10 says it’s gonna be a knockout.
