When these celebrity moms were fat-shamed by critics, they didn't take it quietly. A-listers including Kristen Bell, Pink, and Jessica Simpson took the high road — but defended themselves in the process. Don't mess with these strong mamas!
When that mama bear side kicks in, no one is safe. Plus, these are great lessons to teach your child and show them rather than tell how to disarm bullies.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jessica Simpson
Since Jessica Simpson hit the pop music scene, she has been on the receiving end of some serious fat-shaming. But the meanness reached a fever pitch when the singer and shoe designer gained weight during her pregnancy with daughter Max. Simpson shut down the cruel comments by saying, "I'd been scrutinized about my weight before I got pregnant, so I refused to let anyone steal the joy of my babies. My husband and I were looking at old pictures recently, and I asked him, 'Babe, why didn't you tell me to put the brownie down?' He said, 'You looked great.' He's always loved every curve on my body. And we've always had a healthy sex life."
Kelly Clarkson
Just months after the American Idol alum had her daughter, River Rose, she traveled to England to promote her album. Snarky British TV personality Katie Hopkins tweeted a series of nasty comments about Kelly Clarkson's weight, including, "Did she eat all of her backup singers? Happily I have widescreen." Clarkson told Heat magazine, "I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing," she said. "And more so now, since having a family — I don't seek out any other acceptance." Wait, Katie who?
Melissa McCarthy
The Bridesmaids star didn't let the New York Observer writer Rex Reed's snarky name-calling get to her. When Reed referred to her as "tractor-sized" and "an obese hippo," she laughed it off, saying, "I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs."
Kristen Bell
During her first pregnancy, The Good Place star had her fill of body shamers picking on her pregnancy pounds. Kristen Bell wasn't having it and shut them down by saying, "I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size."
Drew Barrymore
The mom of two is also a busy actress, film producer, and businesswoman and doesn't have any time to deal with other people's opinions of her weight. The actress, 45, said, "But while I may not be tall and thin, I am capable." Yes, she is!
Alyssa Milano
The Charmed actress decided to kill them with kindness when comedian Jay Mohr publicly tried to humiliate her about her postpartum weight gain by saying, "It seems like she had a baby and said, 'I don't really give a s**t' … I read it on her gut … Somebody sat in the director's chair and was not wearing Spanx and I was like, 'Jesus Christ.'" Milano gracefully tweeted at Mohr, "So sorry you felt the need to publicly fat-shame me. Be well and God Bless. Please send my love to your beautiful wife," who then apologized. Milano accepted the apology but continued to speak out on fat-shaming. Mohr, for the record, has two children, one of whom is a girl. Here's hoping Jay figures it out before his daughter has kids of her own.
