Raven-Symoné says she was skinny-shamed on ABC Family sitcom

Raven-Symoné has seen both sides of the body-shaming story: she was criticized for being too big and then was criticized for losing weight.

TheGrio Staff

Sep 29, 2015

Raven-Symoné has seen both sides of the body-shaming story: she was criticized for being too big and then was criticized for losing weight.

“When I was at my heaviest, like 185 pounds, people would be like ‘Are you pregnant? Are you pregnant?’ and I’m like ‘No, I’m fat, get away from me,'” she said during a segment on The View, reports E! News. She then went on, “This goes through all of our industry, just fat-shaming in general. Not accepting the female’s body for the different and many beautiful shapes it has.”

She also bemoaned the fact that just when she started to lose weight, curves began to be celebrated: “I feel when I lost my weight, like big-girl season came. There’s so many big girls that are now famous. That was over here, starving.”

She went on to say that she was then criticized for the weight she had lost, in response to co-host Whoopi Goldberg saying, “Listen, I lost a whole bunch of weight, six, seven years ago and I was up for this TV show and I showed up and the guy went, ‘Where’d you go?'”

“They did that to me!” Symoné said.

“On State of Georgia they had me wear a fat suit,” she said. “Because they said I wasn’t the size they wanted me to be.”