WEBVTT - Weight Prejudice (Queen Latifah recap) 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.200 Pay y'all, Hey, what's up? And welcome to let's Red 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.200 Table that. I'm Tracy teen Rope and I'm call Presley. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.840 How are you doing today? Tracy? You know how I'm doing? 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:15.000 Come on all right and every days and that's exactly right, 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.200 super duper excited. You and I both have some pretty 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.360 dog on positive ways to look at things. You're sucessful, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.479 I'm every day amazing. And what I love about that 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.520 is that you and I are also five three huh. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.120 And you and I also full figured or what they 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.600 called BBWs right and we are. I love that. I 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.040 love that we each on it right. That was one 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.240 of the I want to say, like a pioneering moment 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.320 when they asked us to do this podcast was I 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.400 was like, wow, yes, you just accept us as we 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.200 are and we appreciate Red Table Talk for that. Today's 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.920 episode is super successful. It's quite Latifa. I mean I 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:04.920 was getting right into it. I'm are yes, Yes, I 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.800 love love love Queen Latifa. Like her, she was all 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.720 about empowerment long ago. She started it out for a 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.039 lot of black women to see positivity in our age 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.679 group on television. I remember being in a position where 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.920 there was no one on TV that really looked like me. Oh, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.120 absolutely absolutely. And then when women single came out, it 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.880 was like, I relate to all of them. I bet 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.200 this is true for you because you and I have 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.440 that aquarious power, right, uh huh? Did you feel like 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.480 you could identify with more than one character? I definitely 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.440 co relate to more than one character. Definitely could relate 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.000 to Queen Latifa. And then I had a little spirit 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.720 of Maxine and Sinclair at the same time. Oh mg, 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.240 I totally see that. I totally see that. I do, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.920 and I love it. I'm here for it because I 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.360 related to, of course Queen Latifa, because Queen Latifa was 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.520 a boss, she was, still is and still is a boss. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.920 And I'm glad that she's taking this whole weight issue 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.399 and obesity as a charge for her. I'm grateful she's 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.720 changing the game. That's it. She is changing the game. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.480 She's been changing the game. So here's a fun fact 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.680 back in it had to be but she had to 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.520 talk show. I actually won her fitness challenge. She had 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.560 a fitness challenge. She got to talk about that. Listen, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.440 she had a fitness challenge on the show. I was 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.200 already watching the show because I want to be a 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.920 talk show host too, And again she had set the bar, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.680 had become a host, and I'm like, look at her 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.520 doing her thing, still changing the game. But she had 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.320 a fitness challenge with the trainer and I won the challenge. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.760 And I have since gained all that way back. But 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.520 it was a great opportunity, and I want all these DVDs. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.000 I have no DVD player to play them on now. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.720 But you know, it just shows the times it was. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.520 It was just a great experience. How super cool is that? 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.880 This is totally full circle for you. Okay, so now 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.880 she is fighting against this whole notion that society is 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.760 trying to get us to live up to these expectations 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.000 that are completely unrealistic. Let's talk about Let me tell 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.840 you my elementary school experience was probably the most challenging. Though. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.200 I was the tallest for the longest, and then I 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.920 was like, oh I'm tall, but I was also developing, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.600 and I was the chubby. You know how many words 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.880 we have for a little flat girls plump, I was full, y'all, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.640 was fluffy. I was all those things right. And my 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.640 classmates were the opposite. First of all, they were not 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:46.120 black and they were not fluffy. That part that is 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.760 the challenge high school was trying to fit in and 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.320 try to be something child. I don't know what we 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.720 were trying to be. But when it comes to elementary school, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.000 I went to private school, and you know, although there 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.680 is no competition as far as old we're all wearing 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.280 the same thing. Baby, We're feeling these things out different, Okay. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.280 And when I say I was the first developing one, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.600 I was the first development with the brawl popping, you 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.640 know what I mean. That is a different conversation when 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.720 you are fully developed in fourth grade and I'm playing sports, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.560 we are bouncing, we are looking different than our peers. Well, 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.120 I can tell you that feeling different is part of 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.320 the reason why I am so adamant now to let 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.560 people know that I see them, affirm them, and love them. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.000 I don't want anyone to feel the way that you 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.119 and I are saying we felt when we were in school. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.040 That's why I'm more so just trying to allow people 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.400 to be who they are and remind them they are 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.480 successful in every state of being as they are. They 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:44.640 are enough, so yes, I think that those experiences clearly 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.120 define the trajectory of our lives because now we're here, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.400 we've gotten to share a bit about how we feel. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.440 But we want to also share what you, our community, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.760 had to say about this Red Table Talk episode. One 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.840 of the fans asked Queen Latifa how she stops negative 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.680 self talk, so we ask you the same question. Here 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.919 are some of your answers. To kick it off. VJ says, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.480 it just came to me. I was in my apartment. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.000 I walked past the mirror and I caught a glimpse 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.800 of myself and it just hit me. I'm okay with me. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.200 I just cried and kept repeating it. We loved that 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.000 because I feel like we all have those breakthrough moments 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.680 of this is it. I love me, VJ. I love that. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:33.719 That's beautiful. Brown Betty said, I've learned from a queen 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.040 on Rue Paul to name my inner saboteur then talk 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.040 back to it like, ain't nobody asked your stupid ass 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:46.520 Angie shut out to run back. She is a member 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.200 of the Red Table Talk r v A group and 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.520 an amazing comedian. And when I tell you, I read 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.279 that in her voice. Oh that's good. I love it. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.640 Did I do her justice? Come on here, Brown Batty, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.880 Why do you name your saboteur Angie? Okay, for I 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.200 the es in the world. Anybody ask you, Angie. I 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.040 love it. I love it. I'm gonna do that too. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.080 Marcus Johnson shout out to him. He is actually another 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.200 Red Table Talk rb A member. He says, I've learned 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.840 from practicing yoga that every person is different and has 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.400 different gifts and challenges, and not one person is better 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.200 or worse for it. We are all entitled to peace 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.640 simply because we exist. I love that because it is 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.559 the truth and we do deserve it. That is the truth. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.479 Gail Or Well Rhonda said, I stop and focus on 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:37.359 my blessings and accomplishment. We love that. That's good. I 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.600 love that. That's good. Daja Coldie says, first self awareness, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.080 noticing when I'm doing it. Then I explore my senses, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.919 what's going on in this exact moment, What do I hear, smell, see, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.039 et cetera. It always brings me back. Then I focus 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.000 my energy towards something else. I love that ground yourself. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.760 That's good. T Draper Brazil said, you literally can't thank 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.880 negative thoughts while speaking positively. Come on here at T 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.080 Draper Brasil like that affirming, going back to those affirmations 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.440 speaking out loud, speak over your life. We're here it 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.240 all the time. But it's time to do, y'all. We 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.360 gotta execute this season. We're going to take a quick break, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.560 but when we get back, we'll be joined by two 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:25.480 incredible guests from our Red Table Talk community. We're bringing 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.160 to fellow our t T community members to the virtual 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.800 Red Table. I'm so glad Alsa Dean's Davis is unless 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.600 Red Table That today because she relates to a lot 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.480 of what Queen Latifa shared at the Red Table from 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.080 people putting labels on her because of her size and 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.840 b M I to try and to maintain her healthy 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.040 view of herself and not let outside opinions affect that. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.960 Alisa gets it. Thank you, Alsa for coming on to 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.480 share your story with us. Thank you for having me. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.440 And Vanity Eddie is joining us from Riverside, California today, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.880 but this is not her first time testing on a 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.840 Red Table Talk production. If you could see her right now, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.720 you might recognize her from the fan wall in the 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.960 Red Table Talk episode we're talking about today, of course, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.960 with Queen Batifa, and Vanity was not able to share 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.600 how her body type has impacted her life on that episode. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.560 So that's what we had to come back today so 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.600 we can give her that opportunity. So Vanity, thank you 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.120 for coming to this virtual red table with us unless 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.560 red table that how are you today? I am awesome, guys, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.600 and thank you, thank you, thank you for having me 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.960 as a guest. No problem, the problem. We are excited 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:43.680 that you are here. So let's jump into it. This 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.600 is the part of the show where we reveal which 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.360 moments made us pause, I mean really made us rewind 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.520 the segment and listen again. So this is time for 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.200 wait what wait, wait, wait what happened with that? I 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.439 love the segment, right, so let's just jump on into it. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.679 One of the first moments of Worst was when Queen 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.280 Latifa revealed that the cast of Living Single was told 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.880 that they needed to lose weights. We helped create Living Single, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.200 so when you look at that picture, you see four 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.000 different women, four different shades, four different types, and we 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.800 looked like four women who would live in Brooklyn, right, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.439 But the word came down that we needed to lose weight. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.600 This was that it is a weight what for real? 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.120 Because I remember the weight watching the show and loved 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.840 every minute and I think it was the last thing 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.720 I was thinking about, but they still brought it up. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.720 How d y'all feel about it? I was really shocked 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.600 when the show was like what top in the African 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.120 American Latino community Queen Latifa and approached her and said, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.280 you need to lose some weight and other cast members 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.360 and y'all she's breaking revenue. Beside she is now y'all 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.880 can turn about her weight. So yeah, I bothered me. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.280 I agree, I agree. I think it was crazy. I 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.480 think about the time period when the show came out, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.120 so back then, when we were just really getting our 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.599 foot in the door to be able to have mainstream 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.960 black shows back then, I can see them asking absurd 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.800 questions like that, or of having no expectations. Definitely wasn't realistic. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.760 I think they're crazy for even expecting them to want 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.800 to do that, considering the whole idea of the show 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.880 was to have black members on their exploiting themselves as 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.480 they are. What else would they expecting? And the various 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.920 sizes represented me and my friends. So I'm listening like what, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.000 And I wonder did they approached them after Friends came out? 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.199 Because we can't even look at friends. I'm sorry not 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.320 this in the show, But that didn't represent anybody because 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.480 they had like no black people on the show. It 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.080 didn't present me. It didn't represent me, like they had 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.600 no black friend. It's like in New York City, Like 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.840 you would never see black people walking around. It's New 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.720 York City, So you're trying to con them. That's not 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.920 even like reality to me living single, For me, watching 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.199 that was reality. I had a friend that looked like May. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.199 Jane's character had a friend look like st Clair. I 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.080 had a friend, you know, like Max. It's so to 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.800 me that was so for them to approach them and say, hey, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.240 I want you to fit into this mode of what 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.400 America wants. That kiss me off? And so yeah, you 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:11.120 think about what did America want? Was it just wight prejudiced? 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.920 That was the last remaining acceptable bias. I can't even 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.280 get it out because it just it infuriates me. According 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:24.720 to experts, weight prejudice is the last remaining social acceptable bias. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.600 Numerous studies have found children as young as three believe 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:33.480 harmful stereotypes and biases towards overweight people, including that they 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:39.040 are lazy, weak willed, unsuccessful and unintelligent. The fact that 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.040 it is the last acceptable. That's the problem, right, right. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.760 I've experienced some way bias, right, But it was growing 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.960 up I had to forgive myself because it was mainly sports, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.679 especially specifically gymnastics. I grew up and just could not 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.559 fit those little guards. Man. I am built different. So 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.160 that was my experience. So you always feel like you 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.800 need to be smaller because everyone else is, or even 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.400 cheerly the outfits. Back in high skill, I wanted to 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.199 be a cheerleader. For me to be able to fit 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.480 into that cheerleading outfit, I had to be around of 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.440 ten twelve, and that was not realistic for me because 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.840 a lot of those uniforms they kind of passed down. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.760 When you think about the high school setting, they don't 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.240 really buy new uniforms from time. They just pass them 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.000 down because economically it works for them. And if I 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.959 couldn't fit into any of those uniforms that they were 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.280 passing down, then they weren't passing anything to me. And 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.080 the way they large. I made the cheerlead squad, but 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.640 if I want the cheer and fit in that uniform, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.600 I had to lose the weight they'd have to say 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.319 it was implied. It was definitely. And the other option 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.840 with sweatpants. I didn't want to wear sweatpants, you know, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.200 my first time making the high school cheering the squad, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.600 I wanted to look like everyone else. I end up 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.080 drinking slim fast in high school, just doing things like 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.679 that so that I could be able to fit into 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.240 that cheerleading uniform. And here's the other part about that. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.640 Even if you are the same size, we know that 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.280 the bodies are not the same. Like we literally could 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.839 have the same size and look completely different. It kind 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.640 of goes into the next wait what moment when Queenland 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.640 here that she was told that she was technically obese 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.800 because of her being. She was showing me different body 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.720 types and she's like, this is what your b a maya's, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.280 this is what your weight is, and you fall into 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:18.160 this category of obesity. I was mad at that. Off. Now, Tracy, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.080 I told you already. I make up my own being 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.840 my number. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, this is white. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.280 What for real, y'all make um own because I don't 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.280 like what y'all talking about. You heard this, Okay, what 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.880 did you do? Car? Just make up my own I 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.959 don't like and B and my for me, you know 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.600 we're both short now we're five three. Upon believe I'm 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.760 supposed to be a hundred and twenty pounds. I don't 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.680 think I've been net since fourth grade something along those lines. Literally, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.720 if it was fourth grade, I was young, like I 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.360 was little at that weight. But we know now. According 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.120 to the Washington Post, the body max Index or b 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.400 M I car was making up her own she's got 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.719 a c m I was created two hundred years ago 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.560 a guy who took the average height and weights of 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.960 a group of white men and called this the ideal 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.720 body type. These measurements do not reflect most bodies today, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:16.640 particularly women. And hello, non white people. Can anybody say 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:21.080 hello and hello hello? No, no, point out one white 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.040 man with some hips and we can talk. And just 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.680 the fact that people who are childbearing like just generally 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.000 hold and carry more weight. So that's another thing. I 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.320 feel like it's not considered, especially if the standard was 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.280 white men. Let me say this, I just want to 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.640 know what do y'all think. Two hundred years ago the 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.880 standard was established by white men using white men. Can 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.440 we not modify the b M I to be more relevant? 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.360 This is my first time ever hearing about that, that's crazy. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.240 I mean, hundred years ago, we weren't even free. I'm 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.280 I can go on another tangent, but so we know 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.040 you ain't counting us. Okay, no exactly, but let alone 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.240 women who didn't have rights and freedom. So you take 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.760 this right group of white in and you decide this 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.880 is gonna be a standard. So it sounds about Yeah, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.920 it sounds about right for the times, but it definitely 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.880 needs to change. You would think that someone at this 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.640 point would have addressed it and to seem like everyone 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.240 okay with this standard with not changing the b m I. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:17.640 And we're asking for the medical professionals to rally together 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.880 on behalf of the people of America and modify the 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.040 dog on b m I to be more inclusive of 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.000 what Americans look like today, including women and people of color. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.200 Thank you on behalf of the four of us here 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.520 at let's red table that. So here's something else we're 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.520 gonna talk about that how has your bm I affected 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.200 your life or your health care? So my b m 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.520 I has affected my life mentally, you carry around this 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.280 I'm overweight, I'm obese. For some people who are attempting 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.440 to try to lose weight or you're trying to make 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.320 decisions like healthy eating and only to see and it 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.240 doesn't matter how hard I try, I'm still labeled obese 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.120 because this index is saying that, like you still I'm 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.880 only five four and I should you about maybe one 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.680 thirty five. I've never reached that. Sometimes I deal with 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.840 not feeling like I'll ever be ideal, so mentally that 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.960 takes a toll on my self esteem to feel like 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.440 I'm not what the standards should be healthcare. In terms 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.000 of B and I, I think that it's not relevant 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.440 because something's like I said, I've been playing sports all 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.120 my life and since twenty I was diagnosed with hypertension. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.360 But it had nothing to do I think with my 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.720 body weight. I look at my history and my mom 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.840 she had a stroke at forty, my grandfather he had 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.320 a heart attack at fifty. My family had a history. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.040 So it's more in my opinion or what it looks like, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.760 more hereditary versus you know, gotten is based on body weight. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.680 I've made healthy decisions to ensure that I had a 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.920 healthy weight, and then by nineteen years old, I'm diagnosed 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.680 with hypertension. So how does the B and I really 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.000 affect my health care? Is it realistic? Because you have 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.000 people that are smaller than me or and actually end 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.600 within their being my index and have hypertension or have diabetes. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.520 I don't even think those two things correly at all. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.720 Think about all the other people right now who are 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.320 making alterations to their body because of this B and 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.800 my index. It carries so much on certain people and 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.119 including myself, and for me, I don't even address it 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.040 because it hasn't done anything to me but give me 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.280 low self esteem. There's no solution, not at all. They're like, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.919 here's your being mine, have a great day. They just 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.560 think you're unhealthy. So yeah, that's it. You're lazy, You're unhealthy, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.280 especially because that's because of this. I'm just lazy and healthy, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:34.159 eat fried chicken all day. That's ye I do. But still, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:41.159 I mean sometimes, okay, that's funny. What really bothers me 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.120 is because I had no idea that this was created 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.359 two years ago. So I've basically been like chasing a 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.640 two under year old like standard white man created standard. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.760 I mean, like my white has fluctuated. You can tell 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.440 you that since I was a child, like I've gone 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.440 up and down, been anywhere from a size twenty six 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.520 to a size ten as an adult, and I'm proodical 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.199 size eighteen now and lot I have to do with 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.879 me chasing the idea of what a healthy b M 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.719 I is and with a healthy images. So that's I'm 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.680 really floored by that. So I think, of course, that's 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.520 definitely affected me in my life, and for me, my 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.399 way is more about just my health. I've gotten to 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.399 the point I'm comfortable with who I am, how I look, 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.240 but I do want to be healthier. So that's why 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.480 I chase not being my But I takes a healthy lifestyle, 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.439 like having a healthy lifestyle is one thing, and I 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.320 think anytime you associate numbers right with it, it makes 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.240 it challenging. So my b M I is not in 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.880 the range that is appropriate. And so I go every 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.040 year and it never has been. By the way, hello, 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.760 I can say that without any issue. It never has been. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.320 I love myself and all my assets. Okay, this last year, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.000 it's time for me to come up on another wellness check. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.560 So I get a full series, the whole battery of 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.159 tests run, y'all, and my doctor looks at me and 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:01.199 sees this this extra pandemic weight and goes um. You know, so, Tracy, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.480 if we ever included the A one C test with you, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.440 and I looked at him, started laughing, and I was like, Okay, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.960 you see all these extra assets now, so you got 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.000 to say to yourself, she's short and fat, so she's 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.040 got to be die you're bad act Let's test it. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.440 So I said, we haven't done an A one C before. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.399 Let's do one now so I can show you that 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.120 I'm not diebetic. Get the test back. I was not diabetic, 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.560 I was nowhere near. I wasn't pre diabetic. I was nothing. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.800 And I told him with glee, don't let this fat 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.879 fool you. I don't have anything. I have nothings. And 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:45.399 so the whole construct of being overweight and being obese 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:51.880 is such a horrible mind f right, because you see 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.640 that there are people who are super slim who are 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.960 also unbelievably unhealthy, and they call that skinny fat a 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.359 lot of times. And then why does it have to 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:07.719 still be something fat healthy getting unhealthy? It's healthy. Period. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:09.840 Back to Vanity's point, this is a lot of this 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.280 is just genetics. You just cannot stop certain things. I 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.359 definitely have kidney failure in my family. There are some 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.119 things that I need to address as well. But I 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.840 do have hypertension as well. And when it came like, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.480 my doctor was like, I need you to know you're 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.800 so healthy. It's not like there's a lot that you 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:28.760 can do. Of course, you can work out what have you, 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.560 but I need you to know you're probably still need 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.199 to take this medicine. So let me tell y'all something. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:36.760 And this was at work. This was a few years ago. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.600 This guy, he and I had this conversation about him 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:45.159 being diabetic and him having hypertension, and he came to 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:46.840 me and said, hey, Tracy, and I was like, hey, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.159 how are you doing. The name remains anonymous, we'll just 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:54.680 call him Sam. So Sam says, with a regular Coca 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.879 cola in his hand and a couple of ice So, Tracy, 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.480 how are you doing? What you're sugar? And I said, 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.520 I don't have sugar. You don't I said no. He said, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.000 what do you mean. I said, no, you are the 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.919 one with diabetes. I don't have diabetes. I said, what 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.120 are you doing with this regular coke? And so then 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:14.639 he comes back, he goes, you know what, you're right, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:16.399 You're right. Let me go ahead and get rid of 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.199 somebody gave us to me, I don't even want it. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.160 So he walks away and he comes back. He goes, okay, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.920 so Tracy, now, how is your hypertension? How your blood pressure? 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:24.960 I said, my blood pressure is fine. What are you 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:31.720