OITNB’s Big Boo strips off to promote positive body image

ORANGE Is the New Black’s ‘Big Boo’ has stripped for the cameras to send a message about body positivity, and the video is some pretty powerful stuff. (WARNING: Explicit language)

OITNB’s Boo strips to promote body image

SHE stars as Big Boo in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black; the toughest, roughest chick in the whole prison.

And the actress who plays her, Lea DeLaria, is just as badass in real life. The 57-year-old star has stripped off for the cameras, dropping her dacks to promote self-awareness among women.

Filmed for StyleLikeU, DeLaria is shown taking off her gear while chatting openly about growing up gay in a Catholic family, her body and the importance of her own style.

“I am a proud fat woman, period,” she says in the explicit clip. “We live in a fat-ist society that expects, especially of women, certain things, especially around their weight and it’s bullsh*t. I would say I read [controversial book] Fat as a Feminist Issue, halfway through I got bored and ate it.”

“It freaks me when I am standing next to a woman who is maybe 100 pounds soaking wet, talking about how fat she is,” DeLaria comments. “Men can weigh any f*cking weight they want. The can be any weight they want. No one gives them sh*t about it.

“Obesity in an issue. I get it, it’s a problem. It causes a lot of things that people need to be aware of, right? But the flip coin of that is it’s mostly genetics and there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just that simple. Fat is not ugly. In fact, it’s quite beautiful,” she adds.

DeLaria, who is currently engaged to her long-term partner Chelsea Fairless, says in the lengthy video: “When my fiancee looks at me with this look in her eye and I can see that she is completely in love with me, it makes me feel really handsome ... almost beautiful.

“I love me. Look at this. What’s not to love?”

Lea DeLaria as Boo in OITNB.

Lea DeLaria at the 2014 Emmy Awards.