During yesterday’s epsiode of “The Talk,” Underwood revealed that both she and Osbourne had agreed to post nude selfies of themselves online. However, right before it was time for Underwood to post her selfie, she decided not to. During the segment, Underwood cried as she revealed that she chose not to post the nude selfie because of her role as a president of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and because she felt as though the photo would be taken the wrong way.
“While I am not ashamed of my body in any way and while I love my brown skin to death, I hope that one day those pictures can come out for me as an individual woman who loves my curves and loves who I am. I thank Kim Kardashian for doing something so big that she may not even understand the discussion that she has truly started. But, I also have a responsibility to young women all over this country that may misunderstand me showing my body as some sexualized exercise in commerce and not empowering me to be 185 pounds and voluptuous and dark-skinned and sexy and desirable. The reason I’m about to cry is because, I fought hard to get here, but now I make choices for not just for myself, but for my race, for my people and for women. I wanna show that I’m not ashamed and I wanna be able to show that there is another standard of beauty, but today I feel like I couldn’t. And I don’t like that feeling because I wanna be as free as any other woman. And I wanna show you who I am,” Underwood explained.
