Nikki Blonsky has guys who use the term “curvy woman” all figured out.
“It’s like, an excuse [for men] to like what they like,” the “Hairspray” star told Page Six at a panel previewing her role in the upcoming off-Broadway show “Stuffed” on Thursday.
“It’s like they feel risqué or bad or naughty being with somebody my size. It’s not OK,” she said of guys using the word “curvy.” “If you date me, you’re going to get a lot more than you bargained for. You get my physical [attributes] and you get my emotions, and my beliefs, and you get my family and they’re a trip,” she joked.
Blonsky, 28, is tackling body image in Lisa Lampanelli‘s play “Stuffed,” which follows four women and their relationships with food and self-esteem. “I’ve read a lot of scripts and nothing has literally reached into my heart, grabbed me, sat me in a chair and said, ‘This is going to be your life for the next six months,’” she said during the panel.
Amid prepping for the show, she’s been giving dating apps a try.
“I just jumped into Tinder, that’s a crazy train,” she told us. “I was like, ‘You know what, I’m back in New York, maybe I’ll inspire some straight guys to come out to the show’ and now I’m like, ‘Oh my God.'”
She continued, “Their first approach with me is either they don’t know who I am at all and they’re like, ‘I like curvy women,’ or they’ll be like, ‘You look kind of familiar, are you that girl?’ … It takes them a little while to realize that yes I am [that girl] and I have sexual needs and pleasures,” she said, noting she’s been dismissed for her size while chatting with us at the Friars Club.
And like any swiping New Yorker (Blonsky is originally from Long Island), she’s had her share of strange encounters.
“I literally had a guy who was, like, some type of authoritative figure and I didn’t meet him in person [but] his thing was posture,” she said. “He asked me to send him a picture of my back. Like, you don’t want a picture of my boobs? Which I would never do, never gonna happen, but are you serious? My back? Of all things?”
“Stuffed” debuts on Oct. 19 at the West Side Theater.
“It’s not something we do as a job,” she said of constantly being associated with her weight. “I can’t say ‘I’m a fat actress,’ I’m just an actress, I’m just a woman,” she said.