S’pore Personality Xiaxue Calls Local Actress A ‘Hypocrite’ Over The Topic of Morbid Obesity

Lest you’ve been hiding under a rock, you would know Xiaxue (aka Wendy Cheng) is a very opinionated person who is not afraid to let the world know what she thinks.

In fact, this behaviour of hers has landed her on the headlines more than once in recent years.

Some would even argue that her pink hair is full of gossip and secrets that she’s collecting for her next exposé.

And in the latest episode…

S’pore Personality Xiaxue Calls Local Actress A ‘Hypocrite’ Over The Topic of Morbid Obesity

She has made known to the public on her Instagram page that she is absolutely against glorifying morbid obesity.

She told Asiaone, “I maintain my stance that nobody should be telling the morbidly obese they are beautiful and okay the way they are, and she chooses to see it as being cruel to them. I think what’s being cruel is to let people die from obesity-related diseases if they don’t wake up from their delusion that they are brave, gorgeous and their size 24 bodies should be celebrated”.

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How to ensure everyone says you are beautiful in 2020 💁🏼‍♀️ am I beautiful now? 😭 ⠀ PS – Don’t gimme the whole “you are not beautiful because u ugly on the inside” bullshit. There is already a word for beautiful on the inside and it’s called “kind”. Beautiful refers to the outside unless otherwise specified. 🙄 ⠀ PPS: never did fat shame. All my comments were reserved for the MORBIDLY OBESE only, and yes people with BMI 50 and above shouldn’t be romanticized or glorified in the media. I maintain my stance. Morbid obesity isn’t attractive because it leads to death and disease. This isn’t personal against anyone so it isn’t fat-shaming. And I did not ever talk about chubby or regular fat people. Stay triggered snowflakes

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She says, “People with BMI 50 and above shouldn’t be romanticized or glorified in the media. I maintain my stance. Morbid obesity isn’t attractive because it leads to death and disease. This isn’t personal against anyone so it isn’t fat-shaming.”

She also points out that she “did not ever talk about chubby or regular fat people.”

Where It First Began

It all began when she posted a series of controversial Instastories with captions that called a model, La’Shaunae Steward, “disgusting” and “unattractive”.

Xiaxue said that while it is one thing to be “chubby or fat” the model, Steward’s weight was “way past that” and was “morbidly obese.”

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Xiaxue Clashes With Opinions Of A Local Actress & Fellow Clicknetwork Host

A local actress and fellow YouTube channel Clicknetwork host Oon Shu An partly disagreed with Xiaxue and took to Instagram to share her thoughts.

The situation escalated quickly and Xiaxue followed up with a comment on Shu An’s Instagram post and called her a hypocrite on Instagram stories.

Xiaxue told Asiaone, “I was so disgusted when I saw her post because I thought we were friends. She could have texted me first but I guess virtue signalling was more important to her.”

Shu An told Asiaone that it didn’t cross her mind to text Xiaxue first but if she did, her main issue “would not have been what (Xiaxue) said, but how she said it”.

“But I don’t think I have the right to tell her how she should or shouldn’t express herself. I will bear this in mind for the future, because we do have differing views on a lot of things and how to approach them.”

“What I was actually concerned about, was a lot of points people were making in general in response to what was said. So I tried to address the issue the best I could while making it a point not to attack her.”

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There is soooo much media that glorifies violence, casual cruelty, so funny, learn how to take a joke, glorifies serial killers, literally people who take other people’s lives for kicks, that glorifies being an asshole, they call it being a straight talker, no bs, glorifies perfection, glorifies people who look “normal” on screen, often not acknowledging that they are often boderline underweight and have to eat mostly salads, but will wax lyrical about how much they eat in an interview, glorifies the discipline it takes to not drink water for a day so your muscles look defined on screen and teaching you the steps, glorifies sexualizing young children, glorifies objectifying women, glorifies not caring. . . There is soo much media that glorifies all these things by making them sexy and desirable. . How much media really glorifies fat people? Like properly glorifies them? How often are they made to look good? Desirable? A couple of magazine covers? A music video? A few runways for a diverse clothing brand (not even a mainstream one)? . . Most of the time, when they are featured, they are fetishized, they are “working hard” to lose weight, casted as the sidekick, the comic relief, the joke. Inherent in all of that, is the judgement, that they deserve it because they “made themselves fat”. . . They’re barely even seen as full human beings. . . So if there is SOME media that gives voice to a fat person’s struggles, that allows this person to speak to the fat child being relentlessly bullied in school, that speaks to the fat person being laughed at struggling to love themself, to share with them how they overcame all of that and created a life they’re proud of, I’m here for it. . . Because the message that so many of them are getting now is that they should be ashamed of themselves and that they aren’t deserving of love. And that is just a horrible thing for any human being. . . It ISN’T about being politically correct. It’s about FINALLY treating them with some form of dignity. . . 💚 @luhshawnay you are beautiful, thank you for sharing your light 💚

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Shu An did agree that morbid obesity is a problem and that one shouldn’t glorify it as it is bad for your health.

However, she believes that in the case of the plus-sized model, it wasn’t glorification but an attempt at representation.

She also points out that there could also be other factors that may have caused their weight gain such as health issues and depression, and that we could help these people by loving them first.

“But there is also the idea that a way to help people is to love them first, and to give them the tools to help themselves and to believe that they will help themselves. I don’t think a single fat, much less, morbidly obese person is unaware of their size.”

Whose side are you on?