Live your best life, love yourself, surround yourself with positive people—these are all things Oprah Winfrey has told us through the years.
So, when her namesake publication O, The Oprah Magazine, offered up what some readers deemed to be a piece of body shaming advice, the world was worried.
In an the fashion Q&A featured in a recent O, a reader wanted to know whether she could “pull off a crop top.” The mag provided a rather blunt answer, urging the woman to bare her belly “if (and only if!) you have a flat stomach.” Women fought back, uniting on social media to #RockTheCrop and show off tummies of all shapes and sizes. But put down those pitchforks, people! A spokesperson for O, The Oprah Magazine said in a statement: “We support, encourage and empower all women to look great, feel confident and live their best lives—in this case, we could have expressed it better.”
