NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (UPI) — Raven-Symone says she was forced to wear a fat-suit after losing weight for her 2011 sitcom State of Georgia.
During Monday’s episode of The View, the co-host recounted several stories revolving around her fluctuating weight. At her heaviest, she said, people consistently asked if she was expecting. “I’m like, ‘No, I’m fat, get away from me,’” she said.
“This goes through all of our industry, just fat-shaming in general. Not accepting the female’s body for the different and many beautiful shapes it has,” she said. “I felt like when I lost all my weight, like, big girl season came.”
“It was like so many big girls that are now famous and I was over here, like, starving,” Symone said. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg revealed she faced similar issues throughout her career.
“I lost a whole bunch of weight, six, seven years ago and I was up for this TV show and I showed up and the guy went, “Where’d you go?” Goldberg said.
“They did that to me!” Symone responded. “On State of Georgia they had me wear a fat suit because they said I wasn’t the size they wanted me to be.”
Symone appeared as the protagonist in the ABC Family sitcom in 2011 and 2012. The series only lasted one season due to poor ratings.
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