Daily Inspiration Quote by Star Jones

Star Jones is doing something more bracing than “body positivity” slogans: she’s confessing to rhetorical self-protection. “Yes and, you know” opens like casual TV talk, but it’s also a hedge, the kind you use right before you stop hedging. When she says she “can’t use the nice words anymore,” she’s naming euphemism as a strategy - not politeness, not sensitivity, but a way to duck the emotional and social costs of being seen clearly.

The line that stings is “because I used to chicken out by using them.” “Chicken out” turns the language of weight into a moral drama about courage and fear. She’s not claiming the labels were inaccurate; she’s implying they were soothing. “Plus size,” “chubby,” “overweight” are presented as stepping-stones of denial, each one softening the edge of what she’s finally willing to confront. The repetition of “I used to” reads like a purge, an inventory of old disguises.

In context, Jones speaks from inside the entertainment machine - an industry that sells women’s bodies as both brand and battleground. Her refusal of “nice words” is partly self-directed, partly aimed at an audience trained to reward the palatable confession: be honest, but not too raw; be vulnerable, but keep it cute. She’s rejecting that bargain. The subtext is accountability, yes, but also fatigue: the exhaustion of performing acceptable language about an unacceptable body, and the decision to stop auditioning for other people’s comfort.