Heather Radke

You know, in 1997, when Jennifer Lopez was in this movie, Out of Sight, all of the press, and after that movie came out, I mean, every piece of press I found, the interviewers asked her about her butt. And five years earlier, they would not have done that. They didn't, you know, they weren't talking to, like, first of all, there weren't big butted celebrities that were in movies, but also

mainstream fashion magazines didn't even really use the word butt. They used words like backside and derriere. So something had happened that made butts more culturally interesting between the early 90s and the late 90s. And what a lot of scholars point to is

mainstream fashion magazines didn't even really use the word butt. They used words like backside and derriere. So something had happened that made butts more culturally interesting between the early 90s and the late 90s. And what a lot of scholars point to is

mainstream fashion magazines didn't even really use the word butt. They used words like backside and derriere. So something had happened that made butts more culturally interesting between the early 90s and the late 90s. And what a lot of scholars point to is

The changing demographics of America, so America was becoming less white, and also hip-hop was becoming the dominant form of music, and more and more people were white, non-white, were consuming hip-hop and were becoming interested in its ideals of beauty, which were very butt-based in the 90s. And you see that in songs like Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back, but also in a number of other

The changing demographics of America, so America was becoming less white, and also hip-hop was becoming the dominant form of music, and more and more people were white, non-white, were consuming hip-hop and were becoming interested in its ideals of beauty, which were very butt-based in the 90s. And you see that in songs like Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back, but also in a number of other

The changing demographics of America, so America was becoming less white, and also hip-hop was becoming the dominant form of music, and more and more people were white, non-white, were consuming hip-hop and were becoming interested in its ideals of beauty, which were very butt-based in the 90s. And you see that in songs like Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back, but also in a number of other

hip-hop hits in the 90s you see the way that butts were a part of the hip-hop beauty ideal there are butt scholars yeah there's a lot of people i mean there's definitely there's people who study All kinds of stuff.

hip-hop hits in the 90s you see the way that butts were a part of the hip-hop beauty ideal there are butt scholars yeah there's a lot of people i mean there's definitely there's people who study All kinds of stuff.

hip-hop hits in the 90s you see the way that butts were a part of the hip-hop beauty ideal there are butt scholars yeah there's a lot of people i mean there's definitely there's people who study All kinds of stuff.

I mean, there's the scientists, but then there's also people who are really interested in these questions of changing body and beauty ideals and in questions like what was happening in 1997 and how and why did people talk about Jennifer Lopez's body and the way that they did. There's people who study the history of dance that is very butt-centric. All kinds of people study the butt.

I mean, there's the scientists, but then there's also people who are really interested in these questions of changing body and beauty ideals and in questions like what was happening in 1997 and how and why did people talk about Jennifer Lopez's body and the way that they did. There's people who study the history of dance that is very butt-centric. All kinds of people study the butt.

I mean, there's the scientists, but then there's also people who are really interested in these questions of changing body and beauty ideals and in questions like what was happening in 1997 and how and why did people talk about Jennifer Lopez's body and the way that they did. There's people who study the history of dance that is very butt-centric. All kinds of people study the butt.

I mean, to some extent, who knows right now there's a, we're in a funny moment where there's in like just really in the last month or two months, there's been a number of articles that are predicting the end of the big, but trend to the extent that it is a trend, you know, there's basically like thin is in is a very common type of headline that you'll find right now.

I mean, to some extent, who knows right now there's a, we're in a funny moment where there's in like just really in the last month or two months, there's been a number of articles that are predicting the end of the big, but trend to the extent that it is a trend, you know, there's basically like thin is in is a very common type of headline that you'll find right now.

I mean, to some extent, who knows right now there's a, we're in a funny moment where there's in like just really in the last month or two months, there's been a number of articles that are predicting the end of the big, but trend to the extent that it is a trend, you know, there's basically like thin is in is a very common type of headline that you'll find right now.

And I'm not surprised because that's just basically in some sense, how fashion works is that if a thing is big, it's if, if a body part is, becomes trendy for being big, it's almost inevitable that you'll need the opposite of that in order to continue sort of the machine of fashion churning.

And I'm not surprised because that's just basically in some sense, how fashion works is that if a thing is big, it's if, if a body part is, becomes trendy for being big, it's almost inevitable that you'll need the opposite of that in order to continue sort of the machine of fashion churning.

And I'm not surprised because that's just basically in some sense, how fashion works is that if a thing is big, it's if, if a body part is, becomes trendy for being big, it's almost inevitable that you'll need the opposite of that in order to continue sort of the machine of fashion churning.

so that's one thing but then there's also a thing which is like to some extent thin has never been out although big butts have been fashionable over the last 15 years they've always really been on the bodies of very thin women and they've been very kind of controlled butts you know butts that are look a certain way on a certain kind of person it's not like all big butts are something that people and fashion have been excited about over the last 15 years