It's great that we're living at a time when body positivity has more supporters than ever. The fashion industry is also opening to selling clothes in a wider range of sizes. Because there isn't just one type of body in this world, and nobody got a say for how tall they want to be as an adult. These people are celebrities, well-known at least during their time. Yet, designers refused to clothe them for the red carpet appearance. Who are they, and why?
Please scroll down and check them out.
#1 For her 2019 Grammy Awards, Bebe Rexha was offered the ruffly Monsoori gown. But it was after she was told her size 8 was 'too big' for designers.
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She said in an Instagram video, "If a size 6/8 is 'too big'...then I don't wanna wear your f**king dresses."
Right after that, many designers approached her and she finally settled on this gorgeous red ruffly dress! by Monsoori.
#2 After Jennifer Hudson lose weight in 2011, she was suddenly flooded with offers and felt the difference when you're "on the other side."
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"I’d no idea what I was missing out on. It’s like a whole other world. Suddenly every designer wants to dress you. It’s like, 'You look amazing! Please, choose a dress. Have a bag. And what about shoes?' I mean, wow!" the actress told DailyMail.#3 Hayden Panettiere wanted Tom Ford to dress her, but the designer refused to as he only chooses one celebrity at a time. So she went and buy one on her own.
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While people felt like this was not a wise move by the actress, she explained her choice to People, "It’s like buying a piece of art."
She later received flowers and a sweet card that praised Hayden for making her own choice.
#4 Beyoncé opened up about her Destiny Girl time back in 2016 when she won the Fashion Icon Award. The high-end brands "didn’t really want to dress four Black, country, curvy girls."
The group did not have enough to splurge on designer clothes, but her family did not give up. She had her mother and uncle helped to tailor their costumes and spoke highly of them with how they gave "so much passion and love into every small detail. When I wore these clothes, I felt like Khaleesi. I had an extra suit of armor. It was so much deeper than any brand name."
#5 Christina Hendricks and her gorgeous curvy figure was only offered "size 0 or 2" and obviously couldn't wear any of them. Yeah, the "Sexiest Woman Alive" experienced that.
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When speaking to DailyDaily Record, she joked, "So I'm still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress!"
#6 Rachel Bloom's Gucci that she wore for the 2017 Emmys was bought off the store racks. Because nobody offered her a dress.
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Yet, that only boosted her confidence as shown when she told E! about it, "I've said in an interview before, 'Oh, sometimes it's hard for places to lend me dresses because I'm not, like, a size 0,' but also, I can afford it, so it's okay."#7 Khloé Kardashian felt the significance of losing weight, getting offers from everywhere for photoshoots.
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In 2016, for an interview photoshoot for Harper Bazaar's cover, she said, "There would always be this attention on Kourtney and Kim, but I was too much work for [stylists] or they had nothing in my size."
#8 Bryce Dallas Howard said she preferred "having lots of options for a size 6 as opposed to maybe one option," and got a dress from the department store to appear on the 2016 Golden Globes.
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Speaking to E!, she said, "I just picked it up at Neiman's this week."#9 For Aidy Bryant, what seems like a "basic request" appears to be something no designer was willing to fulfill for her 2019 Emmys attendance.
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Her tweet was noticed by Eloquii, who made her a custom gown (just look at that glowing smile!). She later spoke to People, "I think it’s a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It’s just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style to what, I am going to say, ‘small size’ costars get to wear."
"So to have this experience where they approached me and it’s not us begging them... and they’ve been like, ‘Let’s make this special.’ It’s been very glamorous to me in ways I maybe haven’t experienced before.”
#10 Jonah Hill who enjoys dressing up expresses his disappointment with how overweight people just can't do it as freely as others in 2020.
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"For me, that was a big turning point of realizing: okay, be yourself," he told GQ. "You don't have to be anything you don't want to be. And if you're really interested in fashion, then you should be, don't push that away. Lean into it."#11 Leslie Jones was offended when her premiere for Ghostbusters (2016) was not welcomed by designers. She tweeted, "It’s so funny how there are no designers wanting to help me... Hmm, that will change, and I remember everything.”
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But Leslie still attended in this gorgeous classy off-shoulder red dress with high slit by designer Christian Siriano. He responded to her tweet, "It shouldn’t be exceptional to work with brilliant people just because they’re not sample size."#12 Six designers turned down Melissa McCarthy's request when she was attending the 2012 Oscars. She started her own plus-size clothing line two years later.
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She studied clothing and textiles in college and wore her own dress a year ago for the 2011 Emmy Awards with her friend Daniella Pearl's help who's also involved in her fashion line.#13 Octavia Spencer told reporters at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival how no designers wanted to dress "a short, chubby girl."
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"It’s hard for me to find a dress to wear to something like this! It’s a lot of pressure, I’ll tell ya," she added. She later won Best Supporting Actress in this white Tadashi Shoji gown that got added to their Spring collection.#14 "Wearing the same sh**" was Amber Riley's nightmare as she shared on Twitter. Because plus-size celebrities just aren't considered by designers, and she added, "We can't win."
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#15 Cardi B's stylists were rejected by "both high-end designers and Instagram boutiques" but no hurt feelings for her.
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Her reason? "I'm not going to turn down an opportunity because they don't want to let me in, or they just don't like me in their clothes, period," she told Teen Vogue.#16 Gabourey Sidibe wore Torrid when attending Cannes, but she bought it herself as designers thought she was "too fat."
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"Even though we are moving towards more visibility for plus-size people, there is a lot [of] pushback," she told Teen Vogue. "So it’s important to keep fighting [and] to keep being visible until the conversation changes and [it] is no longer about our bodies because I'm not my body. I'm a whole person."#17 Jane Seymour recalls how she was called the "unofficial muse" 30 years ago when she wrote for The Guardian in 2019. But "nowadays not every designer will dress someone [her] age."
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"I don’t care whether re-wearing clothes is acceptable or not – if I’m feeling the dress and the occasion, and if it fits, then I’ll wear it again," she added in her essay for the Guardian.#18 Ashley Graham during the 2016 Met Gala explicitly made it known that she "couldn’t get a designer" and therefore, couldn't attend the event.
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She plainly told the Cut, "You can’t just show up in jeans and a T-shirt.”
