Reflecting on the commentators and press of the time It’s not Rai or so, Ambra Angiolini denounced how body shaming was an absolutely natural practice… which had serious consequences on her.
Amber Angioliniborn in 1977, became famous as the host of It’s not Rai between 1993 and 1995, attracting popularity but also criticism of all kinds: in that period, engaged in singing with later nostalgic cult hits such as I belong to youthe gossip (not yet via social media) put it on the grill. In hindsight Ambra, now established actresswanted to use Instagram to remember how the body shaming was part of the woman’s natural way of behaving press and also people.
Ambra Angiolini: “Nothing can be said anymore because perhaps too much has already been said”
Amber Angiolini remember how much the comments on his weight they had left the mark on his psycheat a time when it was under the spotlight. On Instagram publish a post with reports from the time and articles from newspapers and magazinesall containing jokes and digs about “excess kilos”. Ambra comments: “Retracing my story, with the help of my friend Fabio Marantino (precious as ever), I realized thehypocrisy of TV and certain printed media; probably you can’t say anything anymore just because they had already said so much… too. If at that time, I was only 17 years old, someone had pointed out to me that I was no longer ‘carefree’, instead of pointing out everywhere how fat I had become, I would have tried to go back to being more ‘mine’ than everyone else’s. The problem today, it is said everywhere, is the haters, but there is someone who evidently taught him a long time ago. This post is not for victimhood that I write it, but to put things right. In the end I won a war that didn’t even have to be fought.”
Ambra isn’t joking: in the selection of pieces you read things like “Fitter than ever“, “Help! I’m becoming an inflated balloon“, “The extra large doesn’t suit Ambra“, “Poor extra-large Amber“, “even plumper and ruddy than usual“, “Twenty years old, gaining weight, a CD-failure“. Ambra actually started acting a few years before her film breakthrough with Saturn Against (2007) by Ferzan Ozpetekeven if it was this last film that really put her in the spotlight in a new way, at least for the general public and not just for those who have faithfully followed her over the decades.
