Shonda Rhimes is get real about weight loss!
After losing close to 150 pounds, the showrunner behind some of ABC’s biggest reveals described just how much it changed how people treated her and even looked at her.
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In her Shondaland newsletter, the writer and producer admitted both men and women started seeing her in a new light 😛 TAGEND
“Women I scarcely knew gushed. And I entail GUSHED. Like I was holding-a-new-baby-gushed. Only there was no new child. It was just me. In a dress. With makeup on and my hair all did, yes. Butstill the same me. In one of my same garments( cause why am I gonna buy a NEW dress when I can take this to a seamstress and she can just make it smaller? Who am I, The Crown? No, I’m from the Midwest, child, and I come with coupons ). Women gushed anyway.”
And she was just as thrown off when she was getting more attention from men:
“They spoke to me. THEY SPOKE TO ME. Like stand still and had long conversations with me about things. It was disconcerting. But even more disconcerting was that all these people suddenly seemed wholly comfortable talking to me about my torso. Telling me I looked pretty’ or that they were proud of me’ or that, Wow, you are so hot now’ or, You seem astounding! ‘”
It’s really crazy how much of a sudden change she went through!
Shonda explained 😛 TAGEND
“I discovered that NOW people realise me as a PERSON. What the hell did they learn me as before? How invisible was I to them then? How hard did they work to avoid me? What terms did they use to describe me? What value did they put on my presence at “states parties “, a lunch, its consideration of the item? When I was fat, I wasn’t a PERSON to these people. Like I had been an invisible girl who abruptly materialized in front of them. Poof! There I am. Thin and ready for a converse. Being thinner doesn’t make you a different person. It simply constructs you thinner.”
That’s wild!
No wonder she was so disturbed by people gushing over her simply because she lost weight…
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