.andimJULIE reflects on her love affair with her own body through the lens of Ursula from 'The Little Mermaid'. With her tentacles, back rolls, and red lips, Ursula isn’t waiting for a revenge body. She already has one.
but with the experience of seeing a movie in a dark room full of strangers, the smell of butter and sweet soda syrup in the air. I lived in Connecticut at the time and had just turned four years old. I remember walking outside and finding that the sun had set during our time in the theater. To my four-year-old self, the whole experience felt magical but in a definitively grown-up kind of way.
It took me a few years before I was jaded enough to look a little more closely at the fat characters of my childhood. To me, Ursula had always just been the scary evil sea witch who happened to be fat, and nothing about that felt significant. . In case you don’t know who Divine is, she was a drag queen from Baltimore who played Tracy Turnblad’s mother in the original. She was crude and gross and funny and fat and even a little bit sexy—even if you didn’t want to admit it.
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