What Disney princesses look like as plus-size models in funny illustrations by an American artist

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Beautiful princesses from Disney cartoons familiar to everyone from childhood are one of the most popular and recognizable characters. With their participation, there is an endless number of different arts. Among them there are drawings that depict heroines in alternative images. There are absolutely crazy works, and there are those that reflect modern reality. Artist Crystal Walter, known as Neoqlassical Art online, has garnered a lot of attention by reimagining Disney princesses as plus size models. What do fragile Disney heroines look like in new puffy looks?

The artist believes that happiness does not depend on the size of the waist. In fairy tales, the princess will still marry the prince, because every fairy tale must have a happy ending!

The project generated an incredibly lively discussion on the Internet, turning into a very heated debate. Most people reacted positively, but there were some who accused Crystal of "glorifying obesity" and promoting unhealthy lifestyles.

The artist explained that her intentions were completely different. She just wanted to raise such an uncomfortable question about the representation of the "big body" and show everyone how we should love ourselves.

“It would never occur to me to advise anyone to get even fatter, or that being fat is better than being slim. It's just that we are all - both fat and thin - are equal. We all people. We all have equal rights to life. Our modern life is designed in such a way as to constantly provide funds for gaining weight, while at the same time living in a paralyzing fear of the result and shaming people who are really gaining this weight."

“When I was growing up, I couldn't find any goodies in the media with fat models. Historically, fat people have been demonized or used to create a comedic effect. We tried to show that this character is less intelligent than their more slender and cunning colleagues. This is terribly harmful to the developing child and, like so many other things, has led to the fact that I began to despise my own body. I could not physically relate to the characters that I liked, for example, the Disney princesses, whom I loved to draw so much,”said Krystal about her personal childhood experience.

She said that as a teenager, she developed erratic eating habits, she skipped meals and trained to wear and tear, just to lose such hated extra pounds. Unfortunately, in her case, the weight always returned, and even more than that.

Eventually, this led Krystal to a severe, lingering depression in her youth. At that moment, she went in for sports and periodically starved, but she felt terrible and was simply in a terrible depressed psychological state. She constantly felt “not like that” and it just killed the artist.

“One fine day an understanding came to me that the joy of life and its quality are absolutely independent of the number on the scales. It was the most important call that awakened me and it determined the vector of movement on the difficult path to love for your body,”Krystal shared her opinion.

“From my own experience, I was convinced that no matter what size you are, when you live your joyful and fulfilling life, this size is exactly how you should look now.”

The artist once again stressed that this does not mean that being thin is “bad” or “unrealistic”. Instead, she just wanted to focus on the idea that all bodies deserve respect and acceptance, no matter how much space they take up or what they may or may not do.

“After all, in fact, these Disney characters that I draw were initially unrealistic, since their waist was smaller than their head. I paint them thick, not to make them "realistic", but to see myself in them. To help other fat people see themselves in them."

Crystal shared that many people wrote very warm letters to her, where they said that they "finally" now feel more confident. "They show these drawings to their children, which can be big too, and they love them too."

The artist also shared her ideas on how to defeat the "obesity epidemic" without shaming people. She says the world needs a cultural shift.

“The shift that offers more nutritious options where none exist. One that encourages fun activities and safe places to do those activities. One that is closer to nature and is based on kindness. The one that encourages larger people to go out and just live their lives, and not suffer, unsuccessfully trying to lose weight in order to achieve some kind of fictional ideal. We need to rejoice every day and appreciate what we have."

In Krystal's eyes, overweight people are just people who absolutely do not deserve to be laughed at or looked at with fear, disgust, or pity.

“Celebrating what the world has traditionally considered obscene is not the same as encouraging people to get more fat. It is simply an admission that being overweight does not make you a bad person or, moreover, not a person at all. I don’t think I’m asking too much.”

Crystal said that she has been fond of art since childhood and that she has always dreamed of becoming an artist. “When I was a child, I usually answered the question of who I want to be when I grow up like this:“An artist”. There was only a short period in my teenage years when I dressed like a boy and declared that I would become a rock star. Who among us has not gone through something like this in a transitional age ?! But, despite all this, I achieved my goal and became an artist! Crystal advises all people, without exception, not only artists, everyone who is trying to succeed in their field, to passionately love what you do.

“Find a job that suits you and what people need, and work on it. If your job inspires you, it will give you the strength to keep working when you are not getting great reviews or cash compensation. And never be afraid to ask for what you want, it's a powerful tool that makes us feel ashamed at an early age,”she said.

People reacted very differently to the art of Crystal. Some are even overly critical. Meanwhile, many supported the artist's idea and her unusual drawings.

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