Despite her backside having gone viral years ago, people are still body shaming Lainey Wilson online. And she has one profane and fitting statement to respond to them all.
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Lainey Wilson sat down with Josh Smith for the Reign With Josh Smith podcast, where they spoke on a wide variety of topics. At the tail end of the video, Smith asked Lainey what she would want to say to people who think they can comment on a woman's body.
"Kiss my fat a--."
Need she say any more?
She cut herself off laughing and said that she was just "playing," but the testament does ring true. After her rear end went so incredibly viral, she's had to get used to a consistent onslaught of comments. Ones about her body, her butt, and (later on) her weight loss.
Some years ago now, she performed on stage wearing an outfit that highlighted her more pronounced bumper, and the internet took to it. She played it off as a joke, but the internet would not drop it.
With Josh Smith, she speaks on her experience, and how she's gotten over caring what online strangers have to say.
Lainey Wilson Gets Over Constant Online Body Shaming
"At first I thought it was funny," she said. "I've been working on music my whole life, and all of a sudden I'm gaining a lot of fans because of my rear end."
"It was a weird thing, but I thought it was going to be like a quick little, like, viral moment and then something to laugh about," she reflected. But it didn't end in a hurry, and went "on, and on, and on."
"I read way too many things people had to say about me," Lainey Wilson said. "And if you don't believe it, what somebody says about you, even putting your eyes on that for a split second, can leave a little mark, you know?"
She soon made the decision to just stop reading the comments, and it was for the better. "People have something to say about everything. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't," and it's that attitude that helped her get over all the constant body shaming.
Even when she lost some weight due to extensively performing on stage, the comments didn't stop.
"This has nothing to do with my music. I'm not telling you you've got to like my music, I'm not saying that you have to like me, but it's a weird thing to talk about the way that somebody looks."
And she's right. It is pretty weird.
