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Chatting to Tracy Grimshaw, the mother-of-three reflected on her 11 year journey from a Big Brother contestant to a radio and television personality and the scrutiny that comes from living under the public microscope.
In last night’s interview Chrissie talked about her weight and said she’s not ashamed of her voluptuous shape.
“Obviously I’m a bigger person but I spend approximately zero minutes a day thinking about it … people are fascinated by a fat woman on television! I don’t know why it’s interesting.
“I think it’s really sad that a lot of larger women believe the messages that they’re not good enough or they’re not beautiful or they don’t have a right to inhabit the world like a normal person.
“And it is that dramatic, women that are larger than a size 12 are consumed with a terrible degree of self-hatred. I just don’t feel it. I don’t think I’m ugly, I don’t think I have no right to be in the world or on a magazine or I just don’t think it’s relevant, the size of my arse.”
Chrissie appeared on the cover of The Weekly in June 2012 with her beautiful children, Leo and Kit and while the feature was a celebration of the Swan family, the 40-year-old was devastated to see nasty comments dished out by internet trolls.
“It was awful because it involved my children. I was like ‘Wow, it’s the cover of the Women’s Weekly, it’s my favourite magazine!’ The last thing I expected [was] that people would be cruel to a three-year-old and a one year old.”
Swan said at the time she felt hurt and liable for the horrible criticism of her kids.
“I felt stupid ’cause I put them in that situation. I feel like my role is to protect my children and I failed them on that. I failed them cause I should have known there were assholes in the world, I should have known people could be awful, but I didn’t know.”
While Chrissie was understandably upset by the taunts of the vocal few, the response to her glossy cover was praised by many and a number of The Weekly’s readers wrote in to say how much they loved the issue.
Linda Nathaniel of Lane Cove who wrote: “Fabulous to see Chrissie Swan gracing the cover of The Weekly. She is a vivacious, high-profile woman celebrating her role as a mother.”
Anthea Somas posted via Facebook: “When I look at you, Chrissie, I don’t see a big woman, I just see a beautiful woman.”
Andrea Fair posted via Facebook: “Chrissie is wonderful. If you felt as good about yourselves, then you wouldn’t feel any need to be so judgemental.”
Well said ladies.
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