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Check out Li and Lu Medeiros, AKA the Botero Sisters, in this article from the Las Vegas Review Journal. They're featured in a new Cirque du Soleil show, "Zumanity". To quote: If you've seen the show, you know who they are: The zaftig Brazilian women with fuschia hair piled high on their heads, attired in revealing bondage outfits, suggestively serving strawberries to audience members. Yowza! They're not only very big and very gorgeous, but they're 12th-generation circus performers, and they've been performing as acrobats, jugglers, and dancers since the age of about 9 in their native Brazil. AND, I give them props for having all the balls in the world, for appearing in those outfits alongside more usual Cirque du Soleil-type skinny people!
To quote the article again: "The concept, the women say, is crystal clear. Be confident, sensual, bold and above all, show the audience that fat women are sexual, too.
'It doesn't matter what shape or size you are,' Li, 33, says through an interpreter. 'Fat women should not be self-conscious.'
'You don't have to be Miss Universe to be beautiful. Big women can feel sensual with what they have,' says Lu, 31.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Rock on, ladies; the world's a sparklier place with you in it.
Here's another article in French, with a different and larger picture. Also, you can visit their own homepage, written in Portuguese, I think.
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