Raven Talks Weight

Actress Raven Symone says its hard dealing with body critics and thanks her mom for giving her much needed self-esteem boosts.
“She’ll call me and say, ‘You’re very pretty,’ ” says the former That’s So Raven star. “I’m like, ‘Thanks, Mommy!’ and that’s my confidence for the day.”“People come up to me and have certain words for me, but you know what I do? I say, ‘I’m healthy, I exercise, I believe in myself, and I think I’m beautiful,’ ” she says. “You just have to learn how to transform the pressures into something that doesn’t soak into you on a personal level. You see it, you breathe past it, you don’t let it sink into your self-esteem.” And to enforce her positive mantra, if something’s got her down, Raven has a simple technique. “At the end of the day I’ll call my best friend and yell and scream and get it out,” she says. “And the next morning, it’s out of my system. Source
Get ‘em thickums! I hear ya. One can only be so confident. I had a guy in my building once ask me if I was pregnant. When I angrily snapped ‘NO!’, he proceeded to say but your stomach is so, and then made a gesture as if to say it was round and protruding. SIR! I’m convinced the world is full of rude assholes. Wait, what was my point? Oh nevermind. VIVE LE CHUB!

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