Lisette Oropesa: I used to weigh 210 pounds. Don’t shame me
mainIn an interview with AFP, the Cuban-American soprano confesses that in 2005, she weighed 95 kilograms (210 lbs). Now, she weighs just 56, having lost weight to save her career.
She adds: ‘body-shaming is not acceptable’. She is tired of “rich patrons saying ‘Oh, I am so glad you’re not fat, like so and so’ — because they think they are entitled to say things like that.”
Read on here.
The photo seems to be of older days, in fact it is from 2008 not 2018!
Today she looks like that:
https://youtu.be/1saBi7DPrqA
Oropesa is the literal picture of health. Would have never guessed she ever weighed so much. Body shaming is neither a good idea nor a good thing and is more often than not applied to women but, surprise, not to men.
Umm…that photo is from the Actors Fund Annual Gala in 2008 (not 2018), as a simple google image search shows.
I saw her last week in Opera Bastille (Elisir d’amore) and she was really excellent. Brava !
One of the noxious effects of social media is that thousands of people who have nothing to do with a musician or other performer feel they can comment on their clothes, their weight, their choice of partner etc. To quote from the Henry Rood letters of the 80s: “Dear Sir, get stuffed, strong letter to follow”.
She should stir her last name up a bit, Operosa sounds much more appropriate 🙂