“So what, I’m in love with a man? That doesn’t discredit my past at all.”
JoJo Siwa responded to people calling her a “trad wife” following the release of her cover of the 1980s hit “Bette Davis Eyes.”
The chatter began in July when JoJo teased the cover, dressed in old Hollywood glam—a blonde bob with soft, tousled curls, a vintage frilled outfit, and bold red lipstick—singing in a soft, raspy voice.
“She dates 1 man and becomes a 1950’s housewife,” one viewer remarked, referring to JoJo’s relationship with her Big Brother UK co-star Chris Hughes. Another commented, “Girl nobody wants this,” while someone else pleaded for JoJo to “un-tradwife” herself.
JoJo addressed the comments in an interview with CNN, denying that she’s trying to be a trad wife.
“It was basically a Halloween costume,” she explained about her outfit. “People really thought I was changing everything like, damn, it was a good wig! I don’t know where ‘trad wife’ came from.”
She also addressed speculation that she’s abandoning the LGBTQ+ community amid her relationship with Chris, which she confirmed in June. Before dating him, JoJo identified as a lesbian and later said she identifies as queer while on Big Brother UK.
“I will fight for the queer community until it’s over,” JoJo said. “It’s my people. I think that people might be quick to forget the way that I came out, the age that I came out. The next generation that saw me be okay and saw the world be okay and then all of a sudden the moms and dads of these kids were okay because, yeah, ‘JoJo Siwa’s a good person’ that changed so many lives.”
“So what, I’m in love with a man? That doesn’t discredit my past at all.”
She added, “I will always make everyone around me know that they’re accepted for who they are. The people who are criticizing me for saying that I’m moving away from the queer community—which literally is not possible for me to do—those people are not doing the same for me.”
True point!
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseastewart/jojo-siwa-responds-tradwife-comments