Please don't kill me now. While I don't think that "fat" should be used on Stevie, or in general should be an issue, I got pretty upset with Stevies appeareances when she was so overweight in the 90s. Not because of the weight, but because of the way she was dressed. Somehow it seemed that she did whatever possible to make the public notice that she was quite heavy. How often did I think "Why can't she go on stage with normal clothes and JUST SING? Noone would say anything, she is beautiful (that face and that hair), but she made herself looking the most unattractive with the low cut bustiers and the figure huggin' stuff".
The way she looked was part (a small part) of my constant worry about her health and happiness (and yes, sometimes I even wondered about her sanity). With her age now, I think it is quite good that she is not that thin. She looks natural and full of life. Since she got her sense of humour back in recent years, has kept her enormous fan-base and is the coolest woman in Rock'n Roll nowadays she will be fine.
Just for the record, I'm 39 and not thin myself.
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