"God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped"
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The word “voluptuous” is doing quiet, strategic work. It’s not the clinical language of measurement or the apologetic language of “curvy.” It’s an older, more cinematic term, a throwback to Hollywood’s pre-fitness-influencer era, where softness could be styled as glamour rather than a problem to solve. Coming from an actress whose image has been publicly managed, critiqued, and rebranded since childhood, it reads as a refusal to keep auditioning for acceptability.
Then she pivots to function: “My limbs work.” That line drops the room temperature. It yanks the conversation away from aesthetics and toward gratitude, health, and capability - a subtle rebuke to the luxury obsession of micromanaging “flaws” when the real baseline is being able to move through the world. The subtext is blunt: stop treating a working body like a public project. Her intent isn’t to claim she’s immune to insecurity; it’s to set a boundary around what deserves complaint, and what doesn’t.
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| Topic | Self-Love |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Barrymore, Drew. (2026, January 17). God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/god-made-a-very-obvious-choice-when-he-made-me-50308/
Chicago Style
Barrymore, Drew. "God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/god-made-a-very-obvious-choice-when-he-made-me-50308/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/god-made-a-very-obvious-choice-when-he-made-me-50308/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.






