Dine with Mýa, Iskra Lawrence, Carla Hall & more | Recipe For Change: Embracing Beauty & Your Body 

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me too

Totally ❤❤❤

Me too

REAL

Never seen her linked to drama her entire career.

I adore Mya, she is still that chick.

No, thank YOU for joining us for such a beautiful conversation and being vulnerable ❤

Kim K??? Really girl?!?!?!?!?!?!

@@cindynell583 Can't lie, I was like what da? Curves been in the black community, but I guess it was not for other racial communities. So...idk

@@cindynell583we just need to start embracing ourselves within our culture communities etc…that’s actually the problem we wait on society to praise us, we should praise ourselves

Thats exactly what I said ! I was like is this girl for real right now ! Specially when she Has Mya sitting at the table with the natural curves like what !?

KK definitely is no role model, nor is she someone who should be viewed as a standard for any kind of natural body image. Her is not. There is the room for conversation about the body dysmorphia associated with plastic surgery. It's crazy how people ignore that part. It's all rooted in not feeling like your body is quite right. I do think she really needs to stop acting like the parts of her body that are surgery given are natural. Just own the surgeries, and start the conversations on what's associated with the obsession to so quickly and easily risk dying to change your body, by cutting it apart, or cutting into it and adding pieces in. And the down time for these surgeries to heal isn't lightweight either. It's years of pain, torture, and extreme situations where you can't use that part of your body for weeks or months at time because it's such extensive amount of alteration to the body even for just that one little change, that it takes months to properly heal. And it doesn't even last for your lifetime. Where's the worth it trade off? I don't see it. You don't stay that way for ever, it's expensive as all hell, you could literally DIE even if the surgery goes PERFECTLY, and it takes years to see the actual result and you could be in pain for the rest of your life even if it's healed well. Because of pulling, or how the skin or muscle naturally healed, etc.

Guys I think she meant in the white community

She did preface by saying "This will be controversial". That said, if this is her truth, it is truth. Controversial or not, Kim K was her entry into the world of body positivity as ridiculous and unwarranted it may be.

I felt like what, Kim K, get out of here! Not only is it man made but also, she is definitely not who made it pop. But then I realized, maybe for European woman she is… 🤷🏽‍♀️

Happy to hear you stuck around for the conversation!❤

Bro yes replace iskra and thr other white girl no offense 😅

@@Daydreamerr13 like frfr

Real talk 💯

Yes she should have

No she shouldn’t have, stop projecting your fan, girl, club stuff on others

No, she's just pensive and practicing active listening lol what u mean!!??

Okay, I was wondering about that, too, and I just wanted to reach in and hug her for being in such a vulnerable space. But I get it from the perspective of @athenakama that she was just listening and being introspective and pensive.

@@AthenaKama There are no digs or mean comments in my end... just observations. Thanks

I think we are just sad we didn’t get to enjoy her for many years because they blackballed her, and we sorta project our grief of losing her those years onto her a bit. But she seems to me HAPPIER than all of her peers of the time comparatively. I mean she looks HEALTHY and THRIVING!!! And for a celebrity like her to have such active listening and connection skills… wow.

I love this interaction…: I need ladies like this in my life

Other than chaka khan, I'm having a hard time thinking of American full figured artists. Alot of them were slim like mya and Whitney. Now in west Indian culture different story lol

@@cassindermuppet8259that may be true, but….Kim Kardashian?

@@honeysucklehealing9940 I know, trust I feel the same way

Iskra is 33 and a very much a ww not from america. Her answer makes a lot of sense lol and whether we like it or not kim made her mark in the media as far as it goes for pear shaped women. Both can be true. Bw have our lane and culture and we know it, we don’t need to whataboutism everytime kim’s name is mentioned its reductive we’ve been doing it online since 2014.

@@honeysucklehealing9940yes, prior to 2014 the game was all about thinness. The kardashians changed a lot whether we admit or not they did. It is what it is, doesn’t make them some upstanding perfect ppl lol their flaws still exist

But on screen I dont think as much, alot of women I think of off the top are slim or not super curvy other than chaka. Man I really can't think of alot. Karyn white, jody watley, Whitney....they're all slimmer women.

@@cassindermuppet8259 thats because the media doesn't deem black women natural curvy bodies and natural big lips as attractive ,but other races who buy those same curves and get lip injections are deemed beautiful by the media instead, the media doesn't even like displaying black women natural hair textures

@@cassindermuppet8259 thats because the media doesn't like black women natural curves and natural big lips ,the media doesn't even like displaying black women natural hair textures

Black women have always have the natural curvy hourglass figure and the bigger full lips

@@cassindermuppet8259 really , these must have slipped your mind 🙄 Aretha Franklin, Oprah, Jill Scott, Octavia Spencer, queen Latifah, fantasia, jazmine Sullivan, Jennifer Hudson etc.

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