Queen Latifah Says a Trainer Called Her ‘Obese,’ And It Pissed Her Off
Red Table Talk do—that the BMI, or Body Mass Index, which measures a person's height to weight ratio, is useful for surveying populations at best, and when applied to individuals, especially Black people, it offers basically no helpful health information. For details on why the BMI, bluntly, sucks butt, I highly recommend TL;DR: Size is not health, say that a million times.In May, Queen Latifah opened up to about the difference between adjusting her weight for a role and doing something drastic that would negatively impact her health. “Health is most important to me.