Self Esteem has spoken out in opposition to the physique shaming feedback she noticed on-line in response to her look on The Late Late Present With James Corden.
The singer-songwriter (actual identify Rebecca Lucy Taylor) made her US TV debut on the chat present this Monday (January 9), performing ‘I Do This All The Time’ from her Mercury-nominated second album ‘Prioritise Pleasure’.
Taking to Twitter after the episode aired and the efficiency was shared on-line, Taylor stated that she’d seen some damaging feedback with regard to her physique.
“American individuals are calling me fats on the web,” Self Esteem started a thread of tweets. “Which is no matter however I actually do really feel prefer it’s a time warp right here [in the US] when it comes to cultural societal expectations of femininity.
“I’ve struggled with disordered consuming my entire life and I cba to really feel shite anymore a few physique that’s at the moment working completely properly.”
She continued: “I’m no much less proficient or glorious as a result of I’m heavier than a Hadid and so forth. I’ll achieve or drop pounds however jfc I dream of a day the place it isn’t a speaking level.
“The factor is, it’s not laborious to get actually skinny. It simply makes life one thing loads much less pretty. My inside wiring actually sees my reflection as one thing that wants ‘sorting’ however then I keep in mind the stunning vs much less pretty toss up and get on with my day.”
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American individuals are calling me fats on the web. Which is no matter however I actually do really feel prefer it’s a time warp right here when it comes to cultural societal expectations of femininity. I’ve struggled with disordered consuming my entire life and I cba to really feel shite anymore a few physique that’s
— Rebecca Lucy Taylor (@SELFESTEEM___) January 10, 2023
The factor is, it’s not laborious to get actually skinny. It simply makes life one thing loads much less pretty. My inside wiring actually sees my reflection as one thing that wants ‘sorting’ however then I keep in mind the stunning vs much less pretty toss up and get on with my day.
— Rebecca Lucy Taylor (@SELFESTEEM___) January 10, 2023
Throughout a earlier dialog with Girls’s Well being UK (by way of Metro), Taylor opened up about how she had “struggled with disordered consuming” previously, “as have many of the ladies that I do know”.
“It was a miserable actuality that in my outdated band [Slow Club] the skinnier I used to be, the extra alternatives we’d get,” she added.
“With Self Esteem, I’ve full inventive management, and it’s been essential to me to have fun my physique: it’s not plus dimension; it’s not small; it could go up or down a stone. It’s a wholesome dimension 14 and, for some motive, that feels radical.”
Chatting with NME for a Large Learn cowl interview in 2021, Taylor defined how her newest studio album delved into her expertise of embracing “true self-acceptance and self-love”.
“It’s the reply to all the pieces, nevertheless it’s nonetheless one thing that you simply’re meant to not do,” she continued.
“I am going down this street loads, and I get fairly upset. However then I feel, no – simply maintain in my little a part of the world, my group, accepting myself, loving myself, after which make my little foolish songs and do my little foolish dances. And if somebody can be taught from that and go it ahead, no less than I’m doing one thing?”
Self Esteem recreated Britney Spears’ 1999 Rolling Stone cowl for the interview in query, and defined how she needed to current a “reasonable” model of the long-lasting picture.
“My concept was, recreate it, however what’s reasonable is I’ve bought a sandwich subsequent to me with a diminished sticker on it, Kermit, and I don’t seem like Britney Spears,” Taylor defined.
“I need to present, actually authentically, what I seem like in mattress. The truth is that girls don’t seem like that in mattress.”
In the meantime, Self Esteem has introduced a trio of North American stay reveals for this April.
She’ll embark on a UK and Eire headline tour subsequent month – you may discover any remaining tickets right here.
