Heavy and Heavenly

Jennifer Hudson’s before and after photos

We are so beautiful, aren’t we my sisters?

For those of us who intend to reduce, we’ve pulled together a short Ebook with the best nonfood, non-surgery, non-exercise information on how to do that.

Men are welcome to read this Ebook as well. Just give your name and email above — check the gender box too — and click the “Free Ebook? I’m in” button, and we’ll send you a copy.

Just read it and take on maybe three of these techniques, and you’re good to go.

1. Breathe Properly
2. Sleep Differently
3. Essential Oils
4. Aroma Freedom Technique
5. Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping)
6. Hypnosis
7. Acupuncture
8. Reflexology

It must be said that women come in all sizes, and many of us fit a positive stereotype of being large and lovely.

There is really no difference in the beauty of the two women in the illustration. If you feel something when you look at these two –if you make judgments– please know you are experiencing conditioned, cultural bias, nothing more.

There is a stark contrast between Black women’s typical largeness  and fashion’s typical thinness. This an old Roman ideal that has rightly been called anti-woman.

That’s why I’m glad for the Black women’s backlash against the skin-and-bones look.

Here are websites offering different perspectives on the self-esteem and health indicators of Blacks and of large and lovely women:

Plus-size fashion and more fashion

Center for American Progress

Heavyset Black women and Hollywood depiction

Center for African American Health

–Rev. Niamo Nancy Muid