What would you pack in your thickness survival package? In response to Survival of the Thickest creator and star, Michelle Buteau, horny lingerie, moist wipes, and cropped outfits are a MUST!
“Everybody have your bellies out. Have your again, have your biscuits out. It’s scrumptious,” Buteau instructed MadameNoire affiliate HelloBeautiful.
Netflix is again with a second season of the hit sequence, Survival of the Thickest, which follows our favourite Brooklyn stylist, Mavis Beaumont, as she navigates her profession in vogue as a curvy Black girl, friendship, and, after all, her tumultuous love life.
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This sequence comes on the excellent time within the age of DEI rollbacks and the decline of plus-size illustration in vogue, magnificence, and media—however not at HelloBeautiful.
Buteau, 37, and the present’s forged, which incorporates Tasha Smith, Tone Bell, RuPaul’s Drag Race alum, Peppermint, and new faces like Tika Sumpter and Harlem darling, Jerrie Johnson, symbolize the storytelling we’ve been striving for and need to see: one the place curvy Black ladies, members of the LGBTQ+ group, and different marginalized communities are on the heart.
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The primary season left us on the sting of our seats, as Mavis flies all the way in which to Rome to admit her like to her Italian beau, Luca, after lastly letting go of her dishonest ex, Jaque (thank God.) Whereas we will’t spoil the whole second season, we will say that viewers are in for a deal with.
HelloBeautiful sat down with Buteau as she mentioned the craziest factor she’s completed for love, letting go of management as a artistic, and her view of “heaux phases.”
Season two of Survival of the Thickest is now streaming on Netflix.
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