靈魂歌后艾瑞莎：我樂意做貪戀食物的胖女人

Aretha: I#39;m Proud to be a Big Woman

摘要：And Miss Franklin couldn#39;t be happier. For the first time, she says, the real Aretha is on stage - a "big woman" who loves her food. 明星們都希望能擁有美好苗條的身形，然而美國靈魂歌后艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林卻與眾不同。她不但一點也不為自己胖胖的體形發(fā)愁，而且日前還公開表示，很樂意作個胖女人。

When she sang about Respect for the first time in 1967, Aretha Franklin was a svelte brunette. Forty years on, she is almost unrecognisable.

In a blonde wig, spilling out of a low-cut gown, a much larger Queen of Soul appeared at a gala dinner in Washington on Friday.

And Miss Franklin couldn#39;t be happier. For the first time, she says, the real Aretha is on stage - a "big woman" who loves her food.

The 63-year-old has revealed she spent decades starving herself to stay slim.

"For a long time I suffered so much trying to be what other people expected me to be and look like," she told the Canyon News website.

"I definitely was never meant to be a modeltype walking down a runway - I#39;m just Aretha singing what she feels in her heart and soul. So far, people seem to understand..." 【您現(xiàn)在閱讀的文章來自“中國人才指南網(wǎng)”，請記住我們的永久域名：m.dgxbdz.com 】

The audience at the National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters gala dinner certainly seemed satisfied, giving the mother of four a standing ovation.

明星們都希望能擁有美好苗條的身形，然而美國靈魂歌后艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林卻與眾不同。她不但一點也不為自己胖胖的體形發(fā)愁，而且日前還公開表示，很樂意作個胖女人。

據(jù)《每日郵報》3月13日報道，1967年，當(dāng)艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林首次唱響《尊重》（“Respect”）這支成名曲時，她還是個身材苗條的年輕女子。然而，差不多40年過去了，她現(xiàn)在的身材已和從前大不一樣。

上周五，當(dāng)身穿低胸長裙，頭戴金色假發(fā)的弗蘭克林出現(xiàn)在華盛頓一個慶祝宴會上時，人們看到的是一個體形肥碩的靈魂歌后。然而，這可能是弗蘭克林最開心的時刻。她第一次公開表示，真實的艾瑞莎就在舞臺上——她是個貪戀食物的“胖女人”。

報道說，現(xiàn)年63歲的弗蘭克林透露稱，為了保持苗條動人的身材，她一直忍饑挨餓幾十年。她說：“很長一段時間里，我為了變成別人所期望的樣子遭受了很多痛苦”，“而我絕沒打算像天橋上的模特那樣輕盈漫步，我就是要唱出自己內(nèi)心和靈魂所感的艾瑞莎�，F(xiàn)在，人們似乎已經(jīng)明白了……”

而那天前來參加美國黑人廣播學(xué)會慶祝宴會的觀眾顯然對弗蘭克林感到非常滿意，他們對她報以長時間的熱烈掌聲。