Curvy Girls Rock Scripted Digital Series Brings Body Diversity to Hollywood
There’s something about the friendships on an ensemble TV series like Girlfriends and Sex and the City that is highly appealing and can even be aspirational. But when even your favorites don’t have characters that you can relate to, what do you do? If you’re Shakesha Williams, you create your own. The new web series, aptly titled Curvy Girls Rock , follows five plus-size women as they explore careers, sex, love, and relationships. The goal of the series, says Williams, is to show that women of all sizes are sexy, desirable, and strong. “I love ensemble TV series…I just always feel that being plus-size is the butt of the joke,” she says. “Women of every size have sex and are beautiful and desirable. We have life partners, lovers, and face the same things that all women do. I want to see those stories played out on screen.” In addition to casting actors that are actually plus-size, Williams is answering other calls for diversity in entertainment by writing ethnically
