Image: Chrissie Swan at the Logies (Getty).
Ever since she came runner-up on Big Brother back in 2003, Chrissie Swan has won hearts across the nation with her warmth and wit.
Most recently, the media personality had us laughing throughout the first Australian series of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here – and then made us dissolve into snotty tears when her son Leo and husband Chris paid her a visit during the finale.
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Despite Swan’s success, popularity and general loveliness, she still cops a lot of nastiness for the mere fact she dares to be larger than a size eight. Depressingly, it seems a lot of people out there still believe a woman’s weight or appearance can undermine all of her other achievements and attributes; or that they’re entitled to even comment on these things.
Even reading about someone being shamed for their body is enough to make you never want to leave the house again. But rather than take these fat jibes personally, Swan dismisses them as pointless observations. (Post continues after gallery.)
Chrissie Swan on Instagram
“When someone calls me fat – I know that, I’ve got a mirror, tell me something I don’t know. That really doesn’t bother me to be honest, that’s like saying I have brown hair,” the 41-year-old said during an appearance on Studio 10 this week.
“I am an imperfect person and I know that about myself.”
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The mum of three also said she’s been enduring forms of body shaming since her Big Brother days. She recalled overhearing a crew member talking about her size, an incident that left her feeling “very vulnerable and scared”.
“I was taking my bra off and I heard someone behind me say “I know you like big women”And I was like “What’s going on, are they sending pictures of my boobs to friends? Like what, have I become someone’s fetish?” she told the Studio 10 panel.
Kelly Clarkson is also a regular target of body shaming
This is awful, but what makes matters worse is that Chrissie Swan is just one of many successful woman whose weight is regularly up for discussion, for no good reason. In the last few weeks alone, Pink, Giuliana Rancic and Kelly Clarkson have been the target of cruel body-shaming comments, to which they have all responded with humour and dignity.
"I love how people think [my weight]'s new - like, 'Welcome to the past 13 years,'" Clarkson told http://ellentube.com/videos/0-z6akyntd/ Ellen Degeneres, after a TV host observed she could 'stay off the deep dish pizza for a while' (ugh, the nerve).
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"Yeah, I was the biggest girl on [American Idol], too. And I wasn't big, but people would call me big because I was the biggest one on Idol and I've kind of always gotten that."
It's 2015, people. Surely it's time we found more useful pastimes than mocking women for how they look?
We love these celeb quotes on body image
Rebel Wilson
The actress said on Twitter; "I'm not trying to be hot. I'm just trying to be a good actress and entertain people." Image via @rebelwilson
Lady Gaga
After the media focused on her alleged weight gain in September 2012, Gaga hit back at critics by baring her body in photographs, sharing her struggles with an eating disorder, and inviting her fans to join her in a "body revolution"/ Image via @ladygaga
Ashley Judd
After the March 2012 frenzy around Judd's "puffy face" the actress fought back in 'The Daily Beast', calling the media out for making women's bodies "a source of speculation, ridicule, and invalidation, as if they belong to others". Image via @ashley_judd
Christina Aguilera
"I am always in support of someone who is willing and comfortable in their own skin enough to embrace it," the singer said in a recent interview. Image via @xtina
Lena Dunham
At the 2012 New Yorker Festival, the magazine's TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, asked Lena Dunham, producer, creator and star of the hit HBO show 'Girls' why Dunham is naked in so many scenes. Dunham responded; "I realised that what was missing in movies for me was the presence of bodies I understood." She said she plans to live until she is 105 and show her thighs every day. Image via @lenadunham
Alexa Chung
Chung responded to critics who suggested that her slight frame made her a bad role model for young women, saying: "Just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm, like, advocating it." Image via Twitter @alexa_chung
Beth Ditto
This five-foot-tall, 200-pound singer spoke openly about her weight to 'The Advocate' saying, "I feel sorry ... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself." Image via @marybethditto
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