Yolanda Adams is coming to the defense of her fellow gospel singer
Erica Campbell's form fitting dress that caused her to receive a great
deal of backlash from the Christian community.
While Mary Mary's
Campbell, 41, was not showing any skin in her white turtleneck dress,
the hip-hugging garment did accentuate the gospel singer's curves. After
her Instagram photograph received some backlash, Adams, 52, insisted
that Campbell was not in the wrong. Continue...
"I know for a fact that Mary
Mary-because I've known them for years-they don't try to be sexual,"
Adams told Think Positive Magazine recently. "Some of the things that
they want to wear, they're in style."
Adams insisted that she
could easily fall under the same criticism because of her body type, not
the choices of clothes that she wears.
"I'm tall. I'm thin, but I
have hips. A gown my graze me in a place where somebody may find it
offensive, but it's not sexual," Adams told the publication. "That was
not my intent. We can't walk around with sheets on and moomoos. Then,
they'll talk about [that]."
The gospel singer spoke about how she
handles criticism by saying, "you have to take criticism with a grain of
salt because you're never going to please everybody."
After her Instagram photograph received some backlash, Campbell spoke about people recognizing their beauty in God.
"This
is about confidence and realizing that God made you and that you are
beautiful just the way you are," she told ESSENCE.com recently. "I think
that young girls shouldn't only get sexy images from people who are not
proclaiming Jesus. But I am. And I'm cute too."
While others disagreed with Campbell's choice to showcase the picture, the gospel singer defended herself.
"I'm
taking it in stride and I'm keeping it moving," Campbell told
ESSENCE.com. "When we took the picture I felt beautiful, I felt
confident, I felt sexy and I felt strong."
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