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(guó)靈魂歌后艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林卻與眾不同。她不但一點(diǎn)也不為自己胖胖的體形發(fā)愁，而且日前還公開(kāi)表示，很樂(lè)意作個(gè)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(lái)自“中國(guó)人才指南網(wǎng)”，請(qǐng)記住我們的永久域名：www.ishadingyu.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(guó)靈魂歌后艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林卻與眾不同。她不但一點(diǎn)也不為自己胖胖的體形發(fā)愁，而且日前還公開(kāi)表示，很樂(lè)意作個(gè)胖女人。

據(jù)《每日郵報(bào)》3月13日?qǐng)?bào)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(shí)，她還是個(gè)身材苗條的年輕女子。然而，差不多40年過(guò)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(zhǎng)裙，頭戴金色假發(fā)的弗蘭克林出現(xiàn)在華盛頓一個(gè)慶祝宴會(huì)上時(shí)，人們看到的是一個(gè)體形肥碩的靈魂歌后。然而，這可能是弗蘭克林最開(kāi)心的時(shí)刻。她第一次公開(kāi)表示，真實(shí)的艾瑞莎就在舞臺(tái)上——她是個(gè)貪戀食物的“胖女人”。

報(bào)道說(shuō)，現(xiàn)年63歲的弗蘭克林透露稱，為了保持苗條動(dòng)人的身材，她一直忍饑挨餓幾十年。她說(shuō)：“很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)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(méi)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(lái)參加美國(guó)黑人廣播學(xué)會(huì)慶祝宴會(huì)的觀眾顯然對(duì)弗蘭克林感到非常滿意，他們對(duì)她報(bào)以長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的熱烈掌聲。