At 57, this Orange Is the New Black star has accepted herself. In a video for Style Like U feature, she explained her theories on women's bodies today, while stripping down to her sports bra and boxers.
"I am a proud fat woman, period," she said. "We live in a fat-ist society that expects, especially of women, certain things, especially around their weight and it's bullsh*t. . . . It freaks me when I am standing next to a woman who is maybe 100 pounds soaking wet, talking about how fat she is . . . Men can weight any f*cking weight they want. The can be any weight they want. No one gives them sh*t about it . . . Obesity is an issue. I get it — it's a problem. It causes a lot of things that people need to be aware of, right? But the flip coin of that is it's mostly genetics, and there's nothing wrong with it. It's just that simple. Fat is not ugly. In fact, it's quite beautiful."
