Queen Latifah Says a Trainer Called Her ‘Obese,’ And It Pissed Her Off

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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.

It's not about losing weight or gaining weight. When I want to lose weight, or gain weight, I know how to do it in a healthy way,” she said. "So if I have to do something that is going to be completely unhealthy for me, then that's not the job for me.

Someone else should have that job [whose figure is] already there… It's called No."And to that no, we say hell yes.By Photography by By By By More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2022 Condé Nast.