When did the "JLo Booty" myth start and why did we allow it to continue?

[O.T.I.S.]

She had an ass that was bigger/more pronounced than most nonblack female celebrities at the time. Matter of fact, her ass was even slightly rounder and more obvious than what was common/popular for mainstream black women (I'm talking singers, models, dancers, etc).

Go back and watch the Baby Got Back video and tell me what you see. Years ago I watched it with a fresh pair of 2016, Instagram addled eyes and I found myself thinking "Wait, most of these chicks don't really have any ass at all!"

Same is true of BBD's "Poison" video. The lyrics cautioned brehs to "never trust a big butt and a smile" yet the chicks in the video hardly had big booties or asses worth going crazy over whatsoever.

Or even better, go look at 2live Crew's 'Nasty As They Wanna Be' album cover. These chicks had the GOAT asses for the time, but they look regular and average now.

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Nobody gassing JLo... for the time she had a crazy body especially when she was young.

Just because there was big asses running around your neighborhood that stuff wasn’t on TV... this being an example.

shyt even Tracee Ellis Ross was considered thick in the late 2010’s and she would be considered average now (even though I still think she has/had a great ass)

Point is, JLo HELPED introduce phat asses to mainstream masses... thats all. It wasn’t a myth. Then video vixens started having bigger asses etc... no matter the race.

And Hollywood still on that slim chick shyt to me. I did a couple TV shows and the main female looked like she hasn’t eaten in decades in person.

 

[King Poetic]

Give JLo credit

for a chick with no acting skills whatsoever and musically is garbage she found her lane through Nikkas like everyone else do to eat

I give her props tho for in living color and her dancing skills

 

[Voice of Reason]

Go watch Selena and see that scene in the front yard. Then come back here and apologize

Wore butt pads in that movie

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

She has a nice ass for a non black woman
that's about it

 

[kingjones29]

Jlo 90sera beauty before all the fake butts

 

[NatiboyB]

They told us J LO had ass it’s simple as that. Other female video chicks/dancers back than definitely had fatter assess and some even looked better...Remember they used to hype her up as urban soon as that shyt with Diddy popped off she white washed her whole damn life.

fukk that bytch.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

it was the shape not the size, nowadays that shyt is trash

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Because it was the 90’s dog back then there was no IG and Dr. Miami

For her time she had a nice toned ass with a slim petite frame.

Most women you see back then in entertainment weren’t built like these women today. Whether it’s hip-hop music videos or in our movies and sitcoms.

Yet Janet was poppin way earlier and had the succulent ass that was nicer than Jennifer’s and never got the credit. Even if you were to say you never got a clear view it was obvious Janet had a fukking body. If you saw Poetic Justice it was obvious Janet was going to war with her jeans....Yet nikkax act like J Lo was Neo from The Matrix

Go Figure

 

[ISO]

Yet Janet was poppin way earlier and had the succulent ass that was nicer than Jennifer’s and never got the credit. Even if you were to say you never got a clear view it was obvious Janet had a fukking body. If you saw Poetic Justice it was obvious Janet was going to war with her jeans....Yet nikkax act like J Lo was Neo from The Matrix

Go Figure

Janet was a sex symbol

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Janet was a sex symbol

Of course...but she never got that credit for that feature of hers

 

[karim]

It's another one of those things in society that people never really know, but since everybody else says it, then it's true. I remember in high school always wondering why everybody was so infatuated with her ass.

This was the 90's early 2000s. The beauty standard at the time was anorexic white woman

 

[Supa]

She had an ass that was bigger/more pronounced than most nonblack female celebrities at the time. Matter of fact, her ass was even slightly rounder and more obvious than what was common/popular for mainstream black women (I'm talking singers, models, dancers, etc).

Go back and watch the Baby Got Back video and tell me what you see. Years ago I watched it with a fresh pair of 2016, Instagram addled eyes and I found myself thinking "Wait, most of these chicks don't really have any ass at all!"

Same is true of BBD's "Poison" video. The lyrics cautioned brehs to "never trust a big butt and a smile" yet the chicks in the video hardly had big booties or asses worth going crazy over whatsoever.

Or even better, go look at 2live Crew's 'Nasty As They Wanna Be' album cover. These chicks had the GOAT asses for the time, but they look regular and average now.

These were the famous black women we all loved in the 90's:

Halle Berry, Aaliyah, Nia Long, Toni Braxton, Vivica, Lela Rochon, Janet, Jada, Robin Givens, Jasmine Guy, Lark Voorhees, Tatyana Ali

None of them were holding. We used to argue whether we'd wife Chili or T Boz

We didn't really see cakes on TV from a black woman until Pam. J Lo's ass was fat in the mainstream and was bigger than black women's in the mainstream as well. You only saw women who were really holding around the way and they didn't look anything like these women of today. Gyms weren't everywhere and if you weren't holding naturally you were stuck with what you have. Don't let ig and these women who do squats all week fool you. Slim women were the standard in the 90's.

A fat ass in 2020 is not what it was in the 90's.

nikkas in here acting like big asses didnt exist in the 90s

just cause it wasnt glorified in music videos till the 2000s doesnt mean woman didnt have huge asses even back then

this was in 1988


Look at that THANG @ 2:41
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That's a random woman in a video

Obviously if we're talking J Lo it's about what's mainstream. If you gotta pull up a Keith Sweat groupie you're arguing against your own point.

Name famous women who were holding in the 90's.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Wore butt pads in that movie

 

[ISO]

These were the famous black women we all loved in the 90's:

Halle Berry, Aaliyah, Nia Long, Toni Braxton, Vivica, Lela Rochon, Janet, Jada, Robin Givens, Jasmine Guy, Lark Voorhees, Tatyana Ali

None of them were holding. We used to argue whether we'd wife Chili or T Boz

We didn't really see cakes on TV from a black woman until Pam. J Lo's ass was fat in the mainstream and was bigger than black women's in the mainstream as well. You only saw women who were really holding around the way and they didn't look anything like these women of today. Gyms weren't everywhere and if you weren't holding naturally you were stuck with what you have. Don't let ig and these women who do squats all week fool you. Slim women were the standard in the 90's.

That’s what I’m saying black woman wasn’t holding in that era.

Them asses in 2Live Crew videos with high waisted thongs and in Baby Got Back aren’t fat asses by today’s standards.

It was no Dr. Miami and it was no muscle booty gym and weight training like that then.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Literally in the first 8 seconds you could see what young JLo was holding



Hollywood eventually had her looking like an ordinary white chick. Even during In Living Color I think she said she was embarrassed by her body and would wear baggy shyt because of it

That was exactly what I was talking about. But dude said it was butt pads. Any facts on that?