Stop the presses. The Veronicas are still a thing.
Oh wait. That’s not the news. Ahem. The news is, The Veronicas will not be taking any body-shaming shit from anyone, so back off.
Petite Jessica and equally petite sister Lisa Origliasso, 30, have spoken about the scrutiny their bodies receive, and the frequent attacks aimed at them on social media.
“If you’re skinny, they say you’re unhealthy,” Lisa told the Daily Telegraph.
“If you’re fat, you’re unhealthy. Health is not a weight. There is no weight that equals a clean bill of health.
“Go look at my mother. She is built exactly as we are. Genetically, we are petite girls. We are never going to be anything other than petite girls,” she said.
“But we have never been more healthy, more sexy, we feel good in our own bodies. We work really hard at living a happy, healthy life.”
It’s not the first time The Veronicas have discussed the ongoing fascination with their slender frames.
Back in January, Jessica took to Facebook to directly confront a comment someone had posted which stated that “by existing at the weight we currently are, by being ourselves, we are encouraging young people to have eating disorders”.
She wrote that she and her sister are constantly being compared to themselves as they were in 2005, when they lived on an unhealthy diet of gummy bears, beer and Taco Bell.
“But if you ask people who ‘look in’ from the outside, THAT is meant to be when ‘The Veronicas looked the healthiest’. What. a. joke,” she wrote.
Eventually, with all the usuals – fermented food, Chinese medicine and probiotics – as well as the more unorthodox healthy diet and exercise, The Veronicas became healthy.
“Still skinny. Yes. But I have always been skinny. I haven’t always been healthy.”
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Top Comments
Stop the presses the Veronica's are still a thing. Lets de-value them to nothing other than how much they weigh. You are doing nothing to help women both young and old to have any self esteem. As a woman, not to mention mother, who has dealt with eating disorders for myself, this kind if an article is making more harm than good. This focusing in "oh they are so skinny lets give them more attention" are you serious? How ridiculous. Lets stop body shaming the tall, the thin, the bigger, the average. And let us just love ourselves at our best.
I can completely understand this: I have seen first hand how awful skinny shaming is. I have a friend who is tiny. Short and slim - petite. A customer at her work told her she needs to eat, clearly has an eating disorder and isn't a real woman as real women aren't tiny/have curves etc etc. She then proceeded to try on numerous items of clothing to show my friend what the clothes should look like on a 'real woman'. I thought this was absolutely disgusting behaviour. Everyone is going to have their opinions and thoughts, but unless they're nice - keep them to yourself.