During the in-depth interview with the Akron Beacon Journal's Rich Heldenfels , Yvette Nicole Brown not only talked about the broadening of her character Shirley on this season of "Community", but also the plight of actresses over a size 10:
"...Brown is a good-looking woman but not long ago received a tweet from a fan saying that her father sees Brown and asks “how do they let fat people like this on tv.” And this in a medium where chubby guys have often starred in sitcoms opposite model-thin wives, a condition TV critic Lisa de Moraes dubbed “male pattern optimism.”
“I am just about sick of this weight situation,” Brown said. “I guess because people can’t be racist anymore, can’t be homophobic anymore, they realize the last thing they can do is be hateful about someone not being a size zero,
“Look at the world. I am the norm. So, if I’m sitting at home in Ohio watching TV, I want to see me. I think it’s great that they’re letting people over a size 12 on television. … What does my weight have to do with what I have to say, or if I’m smart, or if I’m funny? … I don’t get it. I am personally offended by it. I am offended for anybody over a size 10. I am offended by the implication that because you’re chubby you don’t belong. How is that different from saying because you’re black you don’t belong, because you’re gay you don’t belong? It’s that same garbage, and I’m sick of it. I will speak on it every chance I get. …
“Every chubby girl I see on TV for the most part are gorgeous women. I’m not putting myself in there — but look at Melissa McCarthy. Her face is amazing. Whatever size she is, she’s going to be gorgeous. And I’m trying to figure out why beauty is negated by size. … I hate the idea that we are diminished because we happen to like bacon,” she said with a laugh. “Why do I become less of a person because I enjoy the beautiful pork the Lord has put on the earth?”
Read the full interview here at Ohio.com
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