*Loni Love is catching heat over comments she made on “The Real” about the eating habits of Black women.
In a segment for the show, Love talked about being an ambassador for Weight Watchers and became emotional about her piss poor eating habits.
“Let me tell y’all, I did not know how to eat,” she said before breaking down into tears. “Growing up in the projects, we just had to eat what we could,” Love added, NewsOne reports.
“I know it sounds funny,” she continued, “but a lot of women in the African American community, we don’t know how to eat because we grew up that way.”
She concluded with, “Thank you to WW because we wanted to do this to help our brothers and sisters…everybody but especially I see ya’ll out there. I see ya’ll at my comedy shows and ya’ll like we need to get healthier and that’s the reason why we’re doing this just to make ya aware of what’s happening in the community. You can eat and not starve and you can still lose weight.”
Watch the full moment via the clip above — Loni’s breakdown occurs around 6:30.
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this aside Loni has a deep rooted issue with black people and blackness in general that needs to be addressed. every chance she gets she pathologizes black behavior. case in point saying black people don’t know how to eat & ignoring the standard AMERICAN diet is unhealthy https://t.co/X01J9LRqoE
— ZB (@ziggieee) March 5, 2020
She also thanked WW partner and spokeswoman Oprah Winfrey for “allowing us to do this because we have to get healthier y’all.” Love then joked, “You want to beat the coronavirus, eat healthy.”
But many people weren’t here for Love’s comments about the dietary habits of Black women.
One Twitter user posted, “Loni has a deep rooted issue with black people and blackness in general that needs to be addressed. every chance she gets she pathologizes black behavior. case in point saying black people don’t know how to eat & ignoring the standard AMERICAN diet is unhealthy.”
Another tweeted, “I’m tired of this puta. Loni is always running her mouth. It’s not that black people don’t know how to eat it’s about the lack of access. Research Food deserts sweetie.”
I’m tired of this puta. Loni is always running her mouth. It’s not that black people don’t know how to eat it’s about the lack of access. Research Food deserts sweetie https://t.co/bEoofQMiBl
— Elizabeth Bennett (@BreezyHaniChoi) March 5, 2020
A third called out Weight Watchers directly for exploiting insecure women, tweeting, “No shade to Loni who is a plus-sized black woman that will be dehumanized due to anti-blackness and fatphobia but WW isn’t gonna fix that. WW is a billion dollar corporation that will make their money off of individuals who feel they need to he thin or thinner to be healthy.”
There were a few folks who came to Loni’s defense, with one Twitter user writing: “Loni HAS HAD some anti-blackness issues but her relating her experience as a poor black child in a food desert is not one. Think abt why yall couldn’t manage an ounce of sympathy for her discussing lack of access to nutritious food&resorting to diet culture now to counteract that.”
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