Bella Thorne is just like Us! The actress and designer, 25, is focused on balancing her career and maintaining her friendships every day.
29.12.2022 - 17:41 / perezhilton.com
Yikes! Sounds like Bella Thorne was getting sexualized from both directions when she was a kid!
The former child star found a kindred spirit in Emily Ratajkowski — and really unloaded on her High Low podcast this week. We already heard the story of how she was rejected by a potential director because he thought she was “flirting with him.” Despite the fact she was only 10 years old at the time. Gross.
But she told another story about being sexualized in a different way. This was after she’d gotten her breakout role on The Disney Channel‘s hit sitcom Shake It, in which she starred alongside Zendaya from 2010 to 2013. It turns out Disney — you know, the company conservatives keep ragging on for being so “woke”? — had values more in common with the weirdos from 19 Kids and Counting.
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She recalled bitterly of a time her career almost got derailed because she acted like a normal teenage girl:
Say what?! Fired for wearing a bikini?? She continued:
Why would Disney fire her for being photographed wearing a bikini… at the beach??
Gross.
Reacting with this kind of pearl-clutching and censorship is in some ways just as bad as reacting lasciviously towards a young woman just for showing some skin. Obviously the latter is ickier up front. But they both send the same disturbing psychological message: “Your female existence is inherently sexually arousing and being judged by its effect on men.” It’s still sexualization of a child’s body. In the case of the overly offended stance, it’s also telling you that you should be ashamed. And that can also have negative longterm effects on a young woman’s self worth.
Still, those vocally outraged folks — who she says were
Bella Thorne is just like Us! The actress and designer, 25, is focused on balancing her career and maintaining her friendships every day.
It’s the long, anticipated follow-up!
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’s eclectic fashion sense. She was named Lyst’s 2022 Power Dresser of the Year—the e-commerce company said her outfits prompted a staggering “1,900% increase in searches for similar pieces”—and she was named model of the year at the Fashion Awards.
known for bangers like “With You” and “Irresistible” shared a selfie on Instagram in which she wears a cheerleading jacket from when she was 13 years old. “Found my eighth grade head cheerleader letter jacket,” she wrote in the caption.
Body-ody-ody! Celebrities have proved that bikini season isn’t limited to summer.
, the iconic fashion designer and activist, has died at 81 years old. passed away peacefully on December 29, 2022, surrounded by her family in Clapham, London. “Vivienne continued to do the things she loved up until her last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better,” a representative for Westwood wrote in a statement.
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