Sinead O'Connor is all over the news. Is it because she recorded a new music video? Did she burn another picture of the Pope? Run after her third husband with a knife? Appear in another sodden diatribe from another run-down hotel room? No, none of the above.
Sinead O'Connor appeared on stage and what created the furor was that this once nubile little goat with the big goat attitude and marvelously stony face, had gained an enormous amount of weight and had morphed into a bloated whale. She is the object of ridicule because what was once a gorgeous talent is now a shuddering hunk of blubber. But this is just the cost of doing business as a female.
Headlines such as: 'Can you believe this is Sinead O'Connor!' and 'Shocking Body Transformations,' are scrolled around pictures of Sinead with her stomach hanging over her gut, Sinead sweating with her stomach hanging over her gut and Sinead's gut. And there are so many pictures of her gut online, too!
Body-shaming. The fixation thrust on young girls about beauty and weight and fashion forward diets marketed by anorexic models and empty-headed actresses. Why be surprised the headlines are about Sinead O'Connor's weight gain?
Leave Sinead O’Connor alone. She’s perfect the way she is!
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