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Creativity Quote by Geri Halliwell

"Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis"

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Halliwell is doing something rare for a pop figure who came up in the era of heroine chic and tabloid weigh-ins: she’s refusing the audience a simple moral. The line reads like common sense, but it’s strategically aimed at two loud, competing myths - that thinness automatically signals virtue and self-control, and that “body positivity” requires pretending every size is equally healthy in every case. By placing “naturally” on both sides of the spectrum, she pushes back against the idea that bodies are just willpower projects, endlessly malleable if you try hard enough. That’s a quiet rebuke to celebrity culture’s favorite before-and-after storyline.

The subtext is also defensive in a way that feels very late-90s/early-2000s survivor: she’s carving out a public position that can’t be easily weaponized against her. If you say thin is healthy, you’re accused of shaming; if you say bigger is healthy, you’re accused of denial. Her solution is individualized realism: health isn’t a look, it’s a context. “On an individual basis” shifts the authority away from the crowd and back toward personal circumstance, genetics, and actual medical nuance.

Coming from a Spice Girl - a brand built on archetypes, images, and packaging - the restraint matters. It’s an attempt to unteach the fan habit of reading bodies as evidence, and to replace it with something less clickable: complexity.

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Halliwell, Geri. (n.d.). Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-people-are-naturally-thin-and-some-people-144047/

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Halliwell, Geri. "Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-people-are-naturally-thin-and-some-people-144047/.

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"Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-people-are-naturally-thin-and-some-people-144047/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Geri Halliwell (born August 6, 1972) is a Musician from United Kingdom.

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