Beth Ditto-Big Girls Don't Cry

I guess you all know who Beth Ditto is. Well, if you don't, feel ashamed! Go google her. 

She's not just the lead singer of the indie rock band The Gossip, but she's a real role model for the young kids: she's an advocate for the LGBTQ rights, as she herself is lesbian. She's never made a secret of her sexuality, but she admits it wasn't always easy to accept it and talk about it loud. In her teen years, Beth Ditto "prayed to God" she would fall pregnant, so she could hide her sexuality. The singer realized she was a homosexual at the age of 15, but dated a male pal to avoid attracting the attention of teenage boys in her native Searcy, Arkansas.

Now she's a gay icon, and she feels alright with her sexuality and her body. She has been often criticized for being the reverse of the size 0 model, and some even claimed she was encouraging obesity. But her point of view is quite different: “Girls in general have really nice things to say [about beauty] – especially big girls. It’s mostly men who aren’t as open. I think men fear me sometimes. I played in Greece last summer and, I swear, when I went into the crowd, people actually ran away from me. But things like that make me really happy. You make a decision: if you are going to participate in the music industry and put yourself out there, you have to know that it’s all full of [expletive].”

I admire her so much, because she's such an inspiration, she inspires me to love myself for who I am, and to love my body. She's so self confident, and we should all take her as an example, and learn to love ourselves, and never let anyone tell us we're not thin enough, or we're not beautiful. If you think you're beautiful, other people will perceive you as such. And Beth is beautiful, she's gorgeous and sexy. 

"It’s funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day – your body – can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It’s like carrying an art piece around with you all the time. It’s really about making an art piece out of what you’ve been handed. It is about being resourceful. When all you have is an ugly sweater-vest, cut it up and make a really cool skirt out of it! When all you have are these really hateful people, cut them up and make something funny out of them.”