Sir Mix-a-Lot – "Baby Got Back" (1992)

So Cosmo says you’re fat

Well, I ain’t down with that!

You heard it here first: 26-year-old television personality Carissa Codel is blowin’ up!

Some people would say Carissa has already blown up because she weighs 180 pounds (down from 235 a couple of years ago).  

But her weight doesn’t bother her one little bit.  (If it bothers you, that’s your problem.)

Carissa Codel

Carissa – who is a morning anchor at a Springfield, Missouri TV station – chooses the rudest comments about her weight that viewers post on social media and reads them on the air.  

Here are some examples:

“This is who Sir Mix-a-Lot was rapping about.”

“Dayuum Gurl, I want you to put a hurtin’ on me like you do those midnight snacks.”

“I ain’t ever worked as hard as her ankles.”

“Girl, you’re thicker than a bowl of oatmeal.”

“Thicker than a peanut butter milkshake.”

“She’s thicker than zoo glass.”

“Built like my grandma’s prescription lenses.”

“She’s like the only fat 9 I’ve ever seen.”

 Trolling the trolls

“Built for breeding.”

“Shawty obese.”

“The Ford F150 of woman.”

“She’s got enough muffin top to start two bakeries.”

And last but not least:

“I mean, she is overweight.  That being said, she’s an absolute smoke show.”

(True dat.)

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The nasty comments that Carissa reads on camera seem to have don’t bother her a bit – as my grandmother would have said, they’re water off a duck’s back.  

Sometimes Carissa offers a snappy comeback to the trolls whose insult her.  But usually she just laughs.  (And hen I say she laughs, she really laughs.)

Click here to watch one of her segments.

Click here to watch another one.  (Sorry, Josh – no slice of cake for you!)

And click here to hear Carissa’s best laugh ever.

What may be even more amazing than Carissa’s sense of humor about herself is the fact that the news director at her station allows her to do this – I’ve never seen a local TV news show that was loosely-goosey enough to accommodate this kind of thing.

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Sir Mix-a-Lot – né Anthony L. Ray –  released his one and only hit single,“Baby Got Back,” in 1992.

“Baby Got Back” was criticized for its buttocks-centric lyrics – e.g., “My anaconda don’t want none/

Unless you’ve got buns, hun!” – and blatant objectification of women.  (MTV briefly banned the “Baby Got Back” music video, which says a lot if you remember some of the music videos from that era that MTV didn’t ban.)

Sir Mix-a-Lot defended the song as being empowering to women who looked nothing the skinny models who dominated TV commercials and fashion magazines:

The song doesn't just say I like large butts, you know?  The song is talking about women who damn near kill themselves to try to look like these beanpole models that you see in Vogue magazine.

Click here to watch the official music video for “Baby Got Back.”

Click here to buy “Baby Got Back” from Amazon.