Okay, I was a big-bottomed kid. It sucked. It sucked more that all the talented artists had air-brush-perfect bodies.
It's hard to bop to Madonna when your hips are twice as wide as your peers'.
In 1984, Alison Moyet was a breath of fresh air for me. Alison was not a toothpick. She was more like a tank, and a talented tank at that!
In her video, "Invisible," not only does her chipmunk cheeks set her apart from figures like Cindi Lauper and her perky breasts or Tina Turner with her goddess-shaped legs, but she wore an outfit that added a few extra holiday pounds to her portly figure.
Yes, Alison was fat. She was fat and she was beautiful! I didn't know that the two descriptions were allowed to happen together. Plus she could belt out a song like a boom box on a caffeine high. It was inspiring to see proof that large people can have talent.
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