Simphiwe Dana Attacked For Suspected Body Shaming!

Simphiwe Dana Attacked For Suspected Body Shaming!

Multi-award winning Afro-soul artist Simphiwe Dana is no stranger to stage of Social Activism, although a recent comment made on Twitter may have bitten more than it can chew.  Dana recently tried to defend popular plus-sized model “ThickLeeyonce” as she was under attack by an angry mob of bloodthirsty tweeps, and found herself on the wrong side of a body-shaming accusation.

In the midst of long Time-Line of fat-shaming towards ThickLeeyonce, on twitter, Simphiwe took upon herself to comment on the thread in support of the model when she said the following…

The interaction was immediately deemed to be “reverse fat-shaming” by many who subsequently responded to Dana’s tweet.  Many angered Tweeps went on to demand that the singer produce evidence that supports her claims of any health risks associated with her claims, which only escalated the situation when Dana was forced to defend her stance and justify her reasons for making the statement she made.

Simphiwe Dana even went as far as to mention in her defence, the fact that she herself is skinny, as a way to prove that her intentions were not shame skinny people but rather to emphasize the fact that Bigger people are the more often targeted for Body-shaming whereas the are as many if not more, reasons to shame skinny people as well.

Simphiwe Dana later pointed out that her statement was over analysed and intentionally misconstrued by those who wanted to perpetuate the original fat-shaming campaign, and therefore avoiding facing the truth.