No “Fat” Chance with Boris Kodjoe

August 20th, 2011 - By Rashana A. Hooks

While the media is in a frenzy over Boris Kodjoe’s recent twitter lash aimed at overweight black women, and black women respond in offense. Uptown Magazine’s Andrea Williams tackles the real pressing issue in her article “Fat Excuses and Single Black Women.”

Even though Boris says he is concerned about the overall health of African-American women, we may be concerned with the wrong issues when it comes to our appearances. Read it here…

Do you think black men and women over-accept being overweight?

 

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  • proudblackwoman

    This is some bullsh*t.com…. For real black women are naturally thick it is not fat its more so thick hips and a healthy booty. My 17 year old daughter weighs 110 and she is hippy and has a butt, but with a flat as a board stomach. So everyone need to stop coming down on black women because there is obesity in every freaking race, at least thickness runs in the black race, what is the excuse for obesity in other races?????

  • http://www.facebook.com/jshanophioni Chiquita Chi Chi

    black women are ok with being overweight…because being "chubby" in certain areas is encouraged….too many of them keep getting bigger then put fabulous behind weighing 345lbs wearing leggings and stilettos looking like a busted can of biscuits …….i agree with what boris said……nobody is giving women an image of what they should look like…..they always point out how you shouldn't look….. and there is nothing wrong with that…..people attack magazines because they don't feature buffarilla body types…(buffalo- gorilla)…..i don't believe i would buy a swimsuit or a business suit featured on a 250 lb woman….woman have curves not lumps and craters or mini mountains….no everybody is not a size 6 but no one is born a size 24 either…then you have the awful big ones who preach about being 300lbs and healthy ….stop the madness…with all these fat and proud women you would think weight loss businesses would have dried up by now

  • Shana

    There is someone for everyone…leave it at that!

  • reese

    All men don't like the same women. The majority might, but you know there are men who want stickly likeolive oil, buff like Chyna, beyounce, or really fat women. If you are overweight lose weight for health issues. My thing is who asked him what he wanted why does everyone seem to want to tell black women what they should be doing when he has a black wife. Alot of us aren't overwieght and don't particulary care what Boris is looking for because we have other options.

  • reese

    If you are overweight lose weight for you health, not for these black men who always have something negative to say about us. Be happy and healthy.

  • btowne

    I GUESS MR. BORIS AND OTHER BLACK MEN HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A BEACH WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF BIG FAT WHITE, LATINO, OR ETHNIC WOMEN IN A BATHING SUIT. I MEAN THEY JUST LET IT ALL HANG OUT AND DON'T CARE HOW IT LOOKS.

  • btowne

    Why should a black woman even care about what black men want when the black man is shouting all over the globe how much they hate us?

  • btowne

    In that case, what does black men have against staying out of prison and going to college and getting an education? Like most black women do. That black man's buffed body is going to one day fade with old age. Then what the black man gone do?

  • it me

    my nightmare rubing on a man head and all his hair fell out in my hands. if he was concern about people being overweight why come at the issue saying an overweight woman is his nightmare. that downgraded making people that im sure is already uncomfortable with there size thinking this man see me as his nightmare. he came at it the wrong way

  • Nunya

    Boris has his anorexic wife so he needs to stfu and focus on his lil sickly child that he and the stick figure pushed out.

    • yeah i said it

      took the word right outta my mouth lol

    • btowne

      Yeah, and he probably looks at curvier women with big breasts and butts too. After all, he is a man.

  • bellatrice1

    The problem is assuming that all women who are "thick" or have a lot of body are unhealthy. I have a friend who works out HARD 3-4 times a week and she eats waaay healthier than I do (I have a naturally athletic/thin body). She's healthy and in shape, she just may not be a 2 or even a 4. I think most men are concerned with aesthetics like someone else said rather than the fact that a woman may actually work out, but still be full-figured.

  • Kia

    too each his own….the ones complaining are obviously FAT! i'm overweight for my height 5'4 150 lbs…which may not seem big, but i'm not in shape and I know it

    i cant get mad at him because he like his women in shape!

    • kia

      why do people look to hollywood for role models??? he shared his opinion and its just that HIS OPINION!

    • btowne

      HE SHOULDN'T BE COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW FAT OTHER BLACK WOMEN ARE ANYWAY SINCE HE ALREADY HAS A WIFE. IF HE DOESN'T LIKE HER TO BE FAT THEN THAT'S WHO HE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT. OTHER THAN THAT, IT'S REALLY NONE OF HIS BUSINESS.

  • Starr

    His comments may have been spot-on, but the way he presented them were pretty strange. I think people take more offense to the fact that he mentioned his "nightmare" before trying to come up with a motivational message. I also think that some people need to realize that stick-thin does not necessarily equal healthy, and that the goal is to be healthy whether that means you are a size 0 or a size 16. Which I think was missed in his "fat" comments and some of the comments on this board.

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