Sherri Shephard has done something that most women are afraid to do...appear in public in a bathing suit! Sherri Shephard, co-host of "The View", appear on her popular talk show on August 7, 2009 to reveal her slim new body in a swimming suit. The show has been Chronicling Sherri's weight loss diaries and entertaining their audience with hilarious video montages thus gearing their national audience up for the big reveal! This reveal was as anticipated as Kristie Alley and Valerie Bertinelli's landmark "better body Unveiling's" on television. When Sherri walked with her swimming suit on and her new attitude the audience responded with an applauding uproar that would have pleased any rock star or music mogul.Why, do you ask, is society so obsessed with "The swimming suit quandary?" I think it is because women all over America can definitely relate to and understand the anxiety that is usually associated with choosing a bathing suit for the summer. It is an experience that most women dread and an experience that usually requires 5 girlfriends and a couple of margaritas to
get through!! Here in the Midwest most women pack on a few pounds during the winter season and spend the spring months trying to work off those pounds. Then, when it is finally time to go to the department store and try on the bathing suit we need a ton of support to work up the nerve to even look in the fitting room mirror at ourselves let alone stand in front of a live studio audience and display all of our imperfections for the world to see. So to Sherri Shephard I want to say Thank You!!! Thank you for the courage you displayed and the message that you sent to all the little girls, skinny women, over-sized women and just generally all women in America when you took this brave step. To me, this event made women feel as though they should love themselves and not be ashamed of who they are. Mary J. Blidge put it best in her lyrics for the song "Work That" She said, "I just wanna be myself, Don't sweat girl be yourself Follow me, follow me, follow me Girl be yourself Guess what I'll be myself...And I grew to love it, Work your thing out..." I couldn't have said it better myself! I just wanna be myself...
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Good for Sherri, why are all the Sistahs on this show heavy and then have to lose weight?? Wasn't the last co host heavy then lost weight and everyone still talked about her. I don't get it....
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