Anyone can be a target on social media, especially in a progressive 2016, but Blake Lively is proud of her “L.A. Face with an Oakland booty.”
Lively faced a wave of criticism over what some saw as cultural appropriation, when the actress captioned a photo of herself with the lyrics to “Baby Got Back”. The man behind the hit song, Sir-Mix-a-Lot, came to her defense and now she’s standing up for herself.
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The 28-year-old told Sway In The Morning that she believes the words resonate to all women, not just those of colour: “It’s something I was proud of. I never meant to offend anyone. But Sir-Mix-a-Lot, he actually said a very nice thing, he was very defensive and kind, because it’s just about celebrating women’s bodies, and that’s what I was doing.”
She added that her intentions were never malicious: “I would never want to hurt anyone’s feelings or upset anyone. I was celebrating my body… It’s nice to have a nice curve and not look like you’re starving to death.”
The actress explained her reasoning behind using the caption again during “The Shallows” press tour, watch below.
Lively also elaborated on pressures that women face from the media as a whole: “It’s also unfair what you see in the media so much. What I look like on a red carpet is not what I look like in real life. Even in that dress, I’m wearing a great, tiny corset that like someone has cinched me in within an inch of my life and it’s the most favourable version.”
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And she reminds people that no celebrity looks perfect when they take off those red carpet dresses: “So when you look at yourself in the mirror at home and you don’t look like that, you think ‘well why do those people look like that’ but when I go home and take off that dress and look in the mirror, I don’t look like that either,” she continued. “It’s fun to dress up and look good on the red carpet but it’s not representative [of every day].”
Lively will next appear in the survivor horror thriller movie “The Shallows”.
