Do you know who ChickenTuna is? Your boyfriend probably does.
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If you don’t know who Laura Gordon is, I have a suspicion your boyfriend might. For the uninitiated, she’s a 47-year-old Charlotte real estate agent who happens to have achieved insta-famous celebrity status, attracting nearly half a million Instagram followers to shots of her exquisite butt under the moniker @cttchickentuna.
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I have spent an inordinate amount of time looking at pictures of this woman’s butt trying to figure out if it’s real, if she’s real and if I too can achieve such a physique. Answer: unlikely. Although ChickenTuna shares her food list and workout routine on her Tumblr, she’s also quick to point out that this is her body and every body is different. I’ll just go back to eating these spoonfuls of almond butter and chocolate chips then…
I’ve been stalking like crazy to see if I can find ChickenTuna’s professional life somewhere online but can’t find anything. To be clear, I never would have outed her name were she not already so openly public about it herself.
She shows her face and uses her full name on her profile. Her identity was also confirmed when she was quoted in a piece on “fit-spiration” in USA Today last year. She’s not hiding.
So she’s proud of her butt. No big deal, right? Unfortunately, ChickenTuna’s brand of “fit-spiration”, popularized by the globally recognized butt celebrity Jen Selter, raises red flags for some in regards to objectification of the female body and body image disorders. I noticed on one of her photos a 15-year-old girl asked how she could achieve a similar look and that, I think, is depressing.
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Images like these can inspire people to be fit and work out but for others they can be a slippery slope into disordered behavior. The issue is divisive.
So what’s ChickenTuna up to lately? She posted photos only intermittently in 2014 and hasn’t posted anything new to Instagram since March. She is much more regularly active on Tumblr now but is still responding to Instagram comments and says she’ll be back.
It was a dark day in my life when I learned my boyfriend knew who Jen Selter was. (Who doesn’t?) Now we’ve got our own Jen Selter right here in Charlotte. So seriously, ask your boyfriend if he knows who ChickenTuna is. Half a million followers can’t all be single…