Queen Latifah Calls BMI Standards & Recalls Being Told She Fell Into An 'Obese' Category
justjared.comQueen Latifah is opening up about the time a personal trainer told her she fell into ab obese category on the BMI scale.
The 52-year-old Equalizer star is calling out the so-called standards on the BMI scale in a sneak peek clip from this week’s Red Table Talk. Click inside to read more… According to her, the trainer showed her body-focused charts, including one on BMI, or Body Mass Index. “She’s showing me different body types, and she’s telling me, this is what your BMI is, this is what your weight is, and you fall into this category of obesity,” Latifah told hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris in the clip, via People. “I was mad at that,” she added. “It pissed me off.
I was like, ‘What? Me?’ I mean, I’m just thick. She said you are 30% over where you should be. And I’m like, ‘Obesity?’ ” As the discussion progresses, both Latifah and Jada talk about how the BMI is based on problematic racial and societal biases, and that he “ideal” measurements were based on the body of a white European man in the mid-19th century and do not consider a person’s ethnicity, gender or body makeup.
Tune into Red Table Talk on Wednesday, June 8 on Facebook Watch. Get all the details about Latifah‘s upcoming movie, Hustle, here!
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