Issa Rae Initially Didn’t Think Her Body Was ‘Ready’ for ‘Barbie’: Inside Her Self-Love Journey
usmagazine.comThis Barbie is a body-positive queen — and her name is Issa Rae.“Right before [the role came to me], I was post-Insecure, post–Rap Sh!t, and post-the-final-season-of-Insecure-press-tour.
I was like, ‘Well, I’m going to let myself go. I’m eating everything,’” Rae, 38, told Glamour in an interview published on Friday, July 21. “And then I got the call to do Barbie and was like, ‘Oh, no, I am not Barbie-shape ready.’ But then I realized Greta [Gerwig]‘s Barbie world consists of all body types.
So, while I was still on my fitness journey, I felt less insecure about my Barbie body or lack thereof.”The Insecure alum plays President Barbie in the highly anticipated flick, which hit theaters on Friday.
The movie — costarring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling — brings Mattel’s beloved doll line to life as Robbie’s Barbie and Gosling’s Ken journey from the pink-accented Barbie Land into the real world.
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