15 Celebrities Who Got Hot Once They Got Curves

3. Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj‘s “before” photos of her before she rose to fame as a rapper are very hard to come by, but the ones that have surfaced show that Nicki was really thin. Whether she gained weight the old fashioned way or did it via plastic surgery is irrelevant: the fact remains that her curvier body has become iconic in its own way. Last year, she gained a bit more weight and the internet decided that she was fat when that really couldn’t have been less true. Even if she has gained weight, her proportions are the same and her waist is still as tiny as it ever was. If anything, her weight gain made her even curvier, to the point where we can say that she looks better with the weight on than with the weight off!

2. Selma Blair

Selma Blair has always been thin, but she put on some baby weight after giving birth to her son Arthur that she had yet to lose even two years later. She spent some time out of the spotlight for awhile but came back in a big way when she surfaced looking much thinner than anyone had ever seen her in years. She’d been out of the spotlight for awhile but came back to prominence when she was cast as Kris Jenner in The People Against O.J. Simpson, playing opposite David Schwimmer’s Robert Kardashian. Previously, she’d worried everyone when she’d surfaced after losing her baby weight looking literally like skin and bones. I don’t know about you, but we like Selma a lot better when she’s not skin and bones.

1. Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson started off thin enough, but after having her first child, she gained weight and couldn’t quite seem to keep it off. The tabloids constantly targeted her for this, and it got worse after she had her second child. Her weight gain is treated like the biggest thing about her, despite the fact that she’s an accomplished singer and a great mom. Personally, she looks far better bigger than she did smaller. She doesn’t seem to be all that invested in weight loss, choosing instead to continue to make hit records and be a mom to her kids. She’s spoken out against body-shaming too, so she might be becoming a new kind of icon who using their considerable influence to speak out against the contradiction that is commenting on a person’s weight gain or loss. Regardless of what a person looks like in Hollywood, they’re going to get flack for it, so people should just look how they want. We think Kelly has never looked better and that she shouldn’t have to lose weight if she doesn’t want to.