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

[avon barksdale]

U-turn J-lo 2:15 mark

 

[Ya?]

nikkaS KILLING ME WITH
'IT WAS THE 90S"
LIKE BROADS WERENT STACKED IN THE 90S.

REAL nikkaS ALWAYS LAUGHED AT
JLOS ASS BEING PROPPED UP BY THE CAC MEDIA.



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nothing spectacular about her bum, but Diddy propelled her and she swivelled to become a mainstream star. So it’s not just white media.

 

[Contrefaire]

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.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

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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[The Guru]

It came off the back of the 90's when a lot of the women in movies and videos were skinny.

 

[YAYU]

NOT A MYTH! she was on TRL while me and my uncle were walkin through times sq, noticed a huge crowd by MTV studio. we look up and see JLo talkin to carson and even from the sidewalk you could see the thickness.

 

[mitter]

1. Just because her ass isn't the biggest doesn't mean it's not big

2. Her ass was bigger than most (if not all) A-list celebs of that era

3. Remember, the 90s didn't have a bunch of fake asses

4. Many women might have bigger asses, but not that many women have a nicer ass

 

[Emoryal]

Dudes in here lying. If that was ever considered a fat ass then dudes just really never liked fat asses and are bandwagoning trend sheep.

 

[Koba St]

Why would a grown man even concern themselves with this shyt?

 

[O.T.I.S.]

There were tons of BW with butts them so why her?

Name a celebrity...

 

[Splash]

Don't be fooled by the ass she aint got
She's s still, she's still Jenny from the block

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Because she was a non black woman in a field of slim white women, and she was different. Plus, Black people didn’t start checking for her until she started dating P. Diddy.

Same thing with Kim Kardashian. The pop culture girls were pale, and mostly blonde and thin like Paris Hilton, then Kim came along with the sex tape.

 

[patscorpio]

Low key, them street brehs back in the late 90s were undercover simps to Latina broads and even had skits on their albums, talking broken Spanish to Latina whores . NY just bowed down to them and cause a lot of brehs to have kids with "good hair" and lighter skin than them. Basically, a soft genocide of black people

Puffy just capitalized on that pheomonon.

..word....I mean the ass was nice but I never got the hype behind it...and yes I saw her movies back then

 

[R=G]

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.

Go watch Selena and wake up

 

[R=G]

She had a large booty than the average pale face in the 90s. Big butts were associated with Black women and ghettoness but JLO wasnt like that. White America loved her and so did the Black culture. Rap culture started setting America pop culture trends in the earlier 2000s and phat asses rode that wave.


Cacs were being exposed to a culture that loved thickness and despised that Heroin model boy look. Rap was a big money maker so phat asses was selling. They even had Lindsay Lohan shaking her ass with B2K at the MTV awards

JLO was the unofficial poster girl for all that.

She had a large ass for Black, white..anything. Beyonce WISHES she had that much ass back then..she wished she had as much ass as Kelly Clarkson from the 2002 era.