Photo: @annalynnceleste/Anna’s Photography
Whitney Way Thoreis standing up to her haters.
Over the weekend, theMy Big Fat Fabulous Lifestar, 35, responded to the criticism she’d received over a series of photos she posted on Instagram, some of which featured herwearing red lingerie, and others of herposing in a bathtub.
“I am THIRTY-FIVE!” shewrote, adding that “the lingerie showed much less skin than a bikini, which I post pictures of me wearing often.”
Continuing she asked, “So what makes people uncomfortable about this? Is it that any kind of lingerie implies that I feel sexy? Am I not allowed to?”
Whitney Way Thore.@annalynnceleste/Anna’s Photography
Thore said she got similar criticism after posting the bathtub shots — including people who told her to “save it” for her newfiancé Chase Severino,who proposed to her in Paris in October.
“Some of y’all are really out here thinking my father and my fiancé own my body! And as someone who is typically in some state of undress on international television (albeit usually a sports bra), it’s kind of wild to me that if there’s any suggestion of actually being naked, or a hint of sexuality, it’s suddenly deemed attention-seeking or too provocative,” she continued.
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Ending the message on an empowering note, Thore implored her followers to remember that “women are allowed to own their sexuality.”
“Whether you’re wearing a turtleneck or nothing at all, whether you feel sexy or you don’t, whether you’re in a relationship or you’re not — women are allowed to own their sexuality as a normal part of being human. In my case, let me take baths and wear lingerie, and let me still be smart, valuable, and successful,” she wrote. “Let women be both.”
My Big Fat Fabulous Lifepremieres Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on TLC.
source: people.com
