Gwen Stefani blasted for calling herself chunky in old photo with Sting

chunky me 1983. getting @officialsting autograph backstage. cut to… pic.twitter.com/Uj1dmN9GPL

— Gwen Stefani (@gwenstefani) February 2, 2014

Gwen Stefani, 44, recently tweeted the above photo, an awesome picture of her in 1983 getting Sting’s autograph. I thought that was Billy Idol at first! I love that photo so much. It’s got Sting looking like a badass on a motorcycle, a dude wearing bowling shoes, and Gwen, 14 years old and sporting an asymmetric haircut. (I had one at that age too!) Only people are up in arms over the fact that Gwen called herself “chunky” in that photo. People tweeted responses like the following: [via Huffington Post]

@kategoesboom @gwenstefani I totally agree. She is about a size 4 and that is a bad way to set expectations for other girls.

— Colleen Woods Heikka (@colleen6339) February 5, 2014

Yahoo! has an editorial with this perspective, writing in part that “If Stefani—indisputable rock star who was once voted as having the ‘most inspirational mid-riff,’ accomplished business woman, and mother of two gorgeous boys with one on the way—is still cringing over her perceived baby fat from when she was 14, well, that bums us out.”

I don’t see it that way. Even my skinniest friends say they eat too much or complain that they’ve gained weight, and honestly it makes me feel better about my more average size. I don’t think they’re full of it, I know that’s real to them, and I know that whatever size we are, many of us tend find fault with our bodies. People are often more critical of themselves than they are of others. To me that’s normal, and Gwen is talking about herself, not anyone else. Just because she thinks that she was “chunky” as a teen, that doesn’t mean she sees other women that size and thinks the same.

Here’s a photo that Gwen recently posted on Twitter of her growing bump. She looks tiny otherwise, but this photo is angled really weird too. She looks like she’s due in a few weeks, right?

bump it #allblack #inappropriateshoes #capturethemoment #miracle gx pic.twitter.com/HHrJmx9mdj

— Gwen Stefani (@gwenstefani) January 21, 2014

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Gwen is shown out in January and earlier this month. Her style game is always so high. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com

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