Some of you may remember the outspoken YouTuber Nicole Arbour from her "Dear Fat People" video last year, where she went on a six minute tangent about how fat shaming is fake. Well, Arbour is back at it again, and somehow topped herself.
The second video, titled, "Dear Fat People 2: A Second Helping," was released on Feb. 20, following the release of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover. Arbour blatantly calls out plus-sized girls in sports magazines, hinting at the first plus size model to be featured on the cover, Ashley Graham. She also calls out pretty much all of society by saying, "A chick with a dick won woman of the year, Barbie had to look like she eats cheeseburgers to make feminists happy..." The list kept continuing.
But the main focus of the video was the plus-size model in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
"Is she pretty?" Arbour asks viewers. "Totally, but Sports Illustrated models are the mecca of physical perfection when it comes to modeling."
Mecca of perfection. What does that even mean? You have to be model-skinny to be considered "perfect?" Arbour claims that Graham, who posts videos and photographs on her Instagram of her working out, could never be considered fit. In the video, Arbour says that if a plus size model was working out, then she would no longer be plus size.
Honestly, it seems as if Nicole Arbour just wants some more publicity. Everyone had stopped talking about her first video, and poof, she reappears, somehow more ignorant and more offensive than before.
Even after Ashley Graham specifically told Access Hollywood that the photographs featured in Sports Illustrated were not photoshopped, Arbour still disagrees. She tries to counteract her fat shaming argument by saying that plus-sized models are photoshopped to the max, so it does nothing to help body positivity.
This is not what we need, and frankly, Arbour, I'm over your act. I'm happy that you're happy with your body, but that doesn't mean women who aren't your size can't be. The Sports Illustrated cover of Ashley Graham is monumental for bodies everywhere, whether you want to realize that or not.
