If you're more than a little overweight, it affects your voice. Other people realize this. Do an experiment: Ask a skinny friend to do an impression of a fat person. She might drop her chin to make her face look huge. Maybe she'll bow her arms out at her sides to pantomime a wide girth. Most likely, she'll drop her voice and slur her words a tad, to emulate a "fat accent." This isn't just unfair stereotyping--excess weight affects your vocal mechanism. And not in a good way.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Reason #41: Fat Accent
If you're more than a little overweight, it affects your voice. Other people realize this. Do an experiment: Ask a skinny friend to do an impression of a fat person. She might drop her chin to make her face look huge. Maybe she'll bow her arms out at her sides to pantomime a wide girth. Most likely, she'll drop her voice and slur her words a tad, to emulate a "fat accent." This isn't just unfair stereotyping--excess weight affects your vocal mechanism. And not in a good way.
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