{"id":4599,"date":"2012-10-22T06:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2012-10-21T23:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:47:06","slug":"it-pays-to-be-curvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/it-pays-to-be-curvy.html","title":{"rendered":"It Pays To Be Curvy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember Christina Aguilera? Yeah, the pretty\u00a0Ecuadorian\u00a0and Irish blonde with a big voice. She&#8217;s still pretty, still Ecuadorian and Irish, and she still has a big voice, but she isn&#8217;t so skinny anymore. I&#8217;m sure you know that already, and that&#8217;s not what this post is about &#8230; or why I am vexing. Yes, I know I&#8217;m always vexing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4602\" title=\"Christina Aguilera\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera.jpg 425w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, she used to be skinny. And all the media outlets talked about how fit she was, how beautiful she was, and just how absolutely awesome she was. Now, she has become <em>curvy<\/em>. And the story has changed and yet remained the same. \u00a0Peeps are talking about her beautiful curves. Quite honestly, I like the way she looks now. But I might be biased. I tend to appreciate curves. I wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I learned on TMZ: Whitney Thompson, model, winner of America&#8217;s Next Top Model, and president of dating site, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebigandthebeautiful.com\/?utm_expid=38511470-17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>thebigandthebeautiful.com<\/strong><\/a> wrote a letter to Christina Aguilera, offering her $3,000,000 to be the face of the dating website. Three million dollars! That&#8217;s about four hundred and fifty million naira (N450,000,000), for those who speak in naira [calculated at the exchange rate of one dollar to one hundred and fifty naira).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4606\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Letter-to-Christina-Aguilera.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4606\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4606\" title=\"Letter to Christina Aguilera\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Letter-to-Christina-Aguilera.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Letter-to-Christina-Aguilera.png 704w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Letter-to-Christina-Aguilera-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter from Whitney Thompson to Christina Aguilera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While I&#8217;m glad that it pays to be <em>curvy<\/em>, I&#8217;m still vexing! What about the rest of us?? Some of us were curvy long before Christina got here, and we reserve our right to be offered $3,000,000, too. And by <em>we<\/em>, I am really referring to <em>I<\/em>. Just me. If anyone else wants in on this, you need to go create your own blog.<\/p>\n<p>Dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigandthebeautiful.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>TheBigAndTheBeautiful<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, we need to talk. Let me save you <del>some<\/del> a lot of money. I can do double of everything you want Christina to do, and it&#8217;ll cost you less than half the price. Yes, even the original jingle. I can do that, too. It may not be like Christina&#8217;s &#8211; it will be nothing like hers &#8211; but it will be a jingle, and you are gonna love it. I can even do a duet with Timi Dakolo &#8211; who is a very non-curvy man &#8230; whew! &#8211; and it wouldn&#8217;t cost you extra.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, what do you say? <strong>*ferociously batting eye lashes*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> As far as I am concerned, all Christina is doing is spoiling the market for the rest of us. I like her curvy, but I don&#8217;t want her curvy. She needs to remain skinny. The last thing we need is an already rich and famous woman joining the curvy boat. No. No. No. We will not take it.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s with me?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4611\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4611\" title=\"Curvy Christina\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Christina-Aguilera-2-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curvy Christina<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2012\/10\/21\/christina-aguilera-offered-3-million-dating-website-fat-plus-sized\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember Christina Aguilera? 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