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Will Smith Isn’t Fat
An underwear shot revealing a little bit of a gut isn’t exactly the bravery we’re looking for
Let’s get one thing clear right away: Will Smith isn’t fat.
Smith recently posted a couple of pics of himself on social media with no shirt on, exposing his lack of six-pack abs. It’s probably the first time he hasn’t had visible abs since the mid-90s when he made his sex symbol debut as the trigger-happy cop Mike Lowrey in Bad Boys. It appears that Smith, like millions of other people the world over, added on a few pounds during the pandemic, and I’m almost spot-on with the amount. But by the time you read this, he will have likely worked off what weight he did gain. That’s how not-fat Will Smith is.
Will Smith isn’t fat, and despite all of the praise for his realness and bravery about baring his body this way, somehow the idea that he could be overweight isn’t nearly as revolutionary to me as it should be. He’s been entertaining the world for the last 35 years, since before he left high school. He’s 52 years old. He is allowed to waltz into any cookout where “Summertime” is playing, looking any way he wants. Frankly, if it takes a global pandemic to get your first mini gut at 52, you could’ve kept those pics to yourself.
