HOT TOPIC: IF YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT?
The saying goes, “If you got it flaunt it,” but does this saying apply to moms and dads?
The photo above shows celebrity moms Tracey Edmonds and Nicole Mitchell Murphy, both of whom have been criticized for being “too sexy”.
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They are Grown A*& women they can do whatever they want to do.they are Not 15 year old girls.. Who do people think they Are to say that grown women are being to sexy.
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Grown a$# women accompanying a CHILD is wrong…on your own, do what you do!!!
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As long as they don’t go the Shauna Sands route, I say give the teenagers and the 20-somethings something to sweat about.
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Co-sign with Leo. That woman was scandalous making it with her 18 year old step son!
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I wasn’t even thinking about that (though that was nasty >_<). On outings with her young daughters, 9 times out of 10 she looks like she’s about to party all night at the Playboy Mansion or at some frat house.
There’s looking sexy, and then there’s trashy.
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So true, Leo. Women, especially mothers need to have more modesty. But I don’t think we all have to pull our burkas out, thank goodness!
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Bria Murphy and I are the same age and I WISH I had abs like her mom! You betta Nicole Mitchell!!! Flaunt it sista! but keep it classy since you are a mom because kids do get embarrassed. I know what it feels like for my mom to reveal too much and she respected my wishes to tone it down but she still looked sexy
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Halle Berry, Mel B. and many more can be added to the mix, also. These are 21st century women, not 19th and early 20th century women who have to be covered up from head to toe. This is also the USA, not Iran, it’s okay to dress like these women here in the states. They are not nude or walking around in just lingerie.
In fact, Nicole even has a long sweater on that would allow her to cover up if she deemed it necessary.
Now, the lady in the background in the picture featuring Tracey Edmonds and son wearing the white T-shirt, cap, and legging type pants is another story. I wouldn’t want to see her in public wearing something like Tracey has on, but the lady looks comfortable and tasteful in what she has on.
Tracey Edmonds is an entertainment producer who happens to be beautiful and it can only enhance her professionally to show confidence in who she is through the strength of her bearing and being proud of her looks.
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I think there is a time and place for everything. Keep it classy AND away from your children. I think when you are out with your child (under 18), you should not be scantily clad. It’s simply inappropriate and doesn’t speak well of the image you should portray as a respectable woman and mother. Remember your kids are always learning from you, do you want you son picking up trash because you carry yourself as such? Or do you want your daughter dressing skanky? You are free to dress a little less conservative when you are not with child, as there is not the motherly reflection. This teaches your child that there is a time and place for everything, and all attire is not to be worn at all times.
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In reference to the two women in the photos, Nicole Mitchell is with her adult daughter. And although she is sometimes sexy, she keeps it toned down with long sweater jackets. But she still has it for SURE! Now Miss Tracey at that child event…A BIT MUCH. Unnecessary definitely NOT the time (with her YOUNG child) and NOT the place (a child based event). But I can’t see the pants they don’t look tight, so she doesn’t deserve a complete gasp…just a side eye!
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Tina, I agree with your contrast. Nicole is out and about with her grown daughter in the above pic and her sexiness is toned down some with the sweater. She looks sexy not trashy.
Tracey looks good too but she might just attract some unwanted male attention with her young son in tow at a kiddie event, I can see where that might not be ideal, but on the other hand sometimes some women can wear a sac (believe she is one of them) and still get hit on or attract a lot of unwanted attention.
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Yes this is true, however wearing a sac and being hit on is completely different than being with your minor child, and appearing (even if not so) to be seeking that attention is the REAL problem. You are on “mommy time”, keep it pure.
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Oh well if they are too sexy. They are from what I see wearing clothes that cover 80% of their body. There is nothing wrong with that. They can’t help that they are aesthetically nice looking.
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Maybe I’m missing something b/c I don’t see anything wrong with how these ladies are dressed; however, I don’t go for the “if you got it, flaunt it” stuff – at least for ME. How other women want to dress is their business, but for me my standards are just different. I believe in being classy, and you can be classy and dress sexy without showing your business. I do not want to be perceived as trampy and loose because that’s not who I am. When one carries themselves a certain way, that’s the way people perceive you. If you don’t care, so be it.
When you are a parent, I believe your standard should go up, especially when around the children. Kids don’t listen to what you SAY, they look at what you DO, and as a parent, I want to set the best example for my children.
JMO, but to each his/her own.
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Hi Teri, I agree with you that Moms should strive to teach modesty beginning with how they dress as well as not break any indecent exposure laws from state to state. Have a great weekend!
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@ Tina b$$$@ don’t Try come for me. I said what had to say and I’m done .
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Now I know the type of women you are. And it all makes sense…ENOUGH said!!!
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@Tina, No, it’s not enough said just because you say it is. Who are you to judge others? You must be Muslim or are not aware of what the tat therm “non secular society” means. That’s what the United States is a non secular society. For better or worse, like it or leave it, that’s just how it is.
I am amazed that you visit this site as frequently as you have been even to answer people with opposing views because many, many, MANY female celebrities have been featured scantily/provocatively dressed standing right next to their husbands and/or kids in the photographs.
I guess BCK is just a site over run with a den of heathens in your view, with celebrities half naked and readers finding nothing wrong with it.
Some of your suggestion is just so hypocritical. Do you enjoy looking at celebrities and reading and writing to others at BCK about them or not?
Even Kimora has her breasts hanging out and shows lots of skin when photographed with her family.
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@Tina, No, it’s not enough said just because you say it is. Who are you to judge others? You must be Muslim or are not aware of what the term “non secular society” means. That’s what the United States is a non secular society. For better or worse, like it or leave it, that’s just how it is.
I am amazed that you visit this site as frequently as you have been even to answer people with opposing views because many, many, MANY female celebrities have been featured scantily/provocatively dressed standing right next to their husbands and/or kids in the photographs.
I guess BCK is just a site over run with a den of heathens in your view, with celebrities half naked and readers finding nothing wrong with it.
Some of your suggestion is just so hypocritical. Do you enjoy looking at celebrities and reading and writing to others at BCK about them or not?
Even Kimora has her breasts hanging out and shows lots of skin when photographed with her family.
By nature men are more stimulated or aroused by what they see with their eyes. These celebrity women were granted entree and became wealthy as a result of dressing as they do for their husbands which makes them a rarified breed. Particularly the two women featured here because their husbands were the celebrities.
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@Pisces your banter is entertaining if nothing else. Yet it was enough said, because that was ALL “I” had to say to her on the matter. You sound extremely defense and angry.
Not sure what a “non secular society” has to do with any of my comments as I haven’t spoken religion in any of my posts.This is a question forum, meaning to share your opinion. I am not judging either of the women I am simply stating MY opinion, which I will give as I freely desire.
Justifying something on the sole grounds that everyone else is doing it sounds very weak, that you are that easily governed sounds like your own mishap. And getting on here attempting to bully everyone with these feeble posting is very telling.
So on that note…ENOUGH SAID TO YOU TOO!!!
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And a lot of people murder…would you like to know my opinion on that as well?
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@ Tina, No, thank you. But thank you for realizing that this is what it is, nothing but banter which you and I are both free to participate in equally because I think we are both American.
I don’t have an angry bone in my body so please don’t project your feelings onto me, thank you. Every time I visit BCK I’m smiling and happy even when confronted by a bump in the road.
Nothing personal so I will call it enough right now just at this post.
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BCK, thank you for opening up discussions such as these. Even though we sometimes agree to disagree, and conversations get heated at times, at least discussions on such topics are being made.
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I think it is nothing but jealousy….green eye monster….envy. Yet men of all ages go without a shirt all the time. Neva hear any comments about that. Only people that r complaining r women as usual.
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I agree with you, luvbug. These women look great to me. I only hope that I look as good as them when I get their age, and have tons of kids (5 is a ton to me).
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If you got
Flaunt it
Boy you know you want it
Watch me turn around…
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I think both women look gorgeous & tasefully sexy…it’s not like they have a whole bunch of cleavage out or have on booty shorts,I mean goodness they’re only showing sum abs and belly button.
Let me get a body like that I’d show it too.
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@Brooks, I just would like to compliment you on the clever, funny and tasteful way you phrase your comments. Ever since your comment “Don’t taze me, bro’”, I’ve become your number one fan. That cracked me up.
Like “booty shorts” is funny too! lol.
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LOL..thanx I had 2 laugh at that one myself.
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I concur with all your points. If I had it, I would flaunt it too. Both Nicole and Tracey look great and neither are crossing the line with the recent pics I’ve seen.
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I agree.
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I know riight BROOKs! I wouLd TOO..once i get my abs into shape..ill be fLaunting when i want toO lol.. peopLe aLways have to turn something soo small into this big ol’ ISSUE. This makes NO SENSE! Let them be who they are..if their kids arent embarrased and neither are they..then Let it be!
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I swear people who are always concerned about how others carry themselves around their children, are usually not setting good examples for their own children. They spend too much time worrying what some grown ass woman with WAYYYYYYYYYYY more money, time and leisure is doing that they forget bout their own. My advice: IF it does not affect you, then it is not your business. smh. The nerve of some people, worry about your own darn kids and your own darn family for goodness sakes.
every person is the owner and governor of their own bodies and the audacity of anyone to tell someone what they should or should not wear, what business is that of yours??? do you pay their bills, do you feed their kids, do you pay their mortgage.
goodness gracious, worry bout your own darn kids!!!!!….while you at it prolly should hit the gym too cause thats prolly why you are hating!!!!!
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Yes, Issy and not only get to the gym but clean their houses up ,too instead of typing on the computer.
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In case you missed it, this was a question forum. I can only speak for myself, but I am not “worried” about what anyone is doing. I don’t think giving your opinion qualifies as being worried. I also have a GREAT body and would carry myself as I my opinion suggested. But that’s the thing…it’s an OPINION. Simmer down!
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Absolutely flaunt it if you got it, within reason of course!!!!
Neither Nicole or Tracey are showing too much or look inappropriate.
Halle, Garcelle,Tracey and Nicole, etc. show that age ain’t nothing but a number and are an inspiration to me!!!
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I don’t see how either outfit would be considered sexy. They’re showing an inch of stomach.
whoop-de-freaking-do.
Why is this post not talking about Coco? Isn’t her stepson like, 17, and she’s butt a$% naked all the time?
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I agree about Coco. Unbelievable what some women can get away with and not be critcized for.
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Coco is not ignored, rather expected. She’s trash all around, no need for comments are warranted.
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That’s just a double standard, right there, and why Coco should get a pass is not logical to me. She is still a celebrity and married to a celebrity and is featured in pictures with her 17 year old stepson who is still an impressionable minor with hormones raging.
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Wow you missed the whole boat! Let me put it this way, she is a gutter trash flat out and doesn’t try to hide it. She is married to a man that subjectifies women is it any real surprise that she behaves the way? So what is there to talk about?
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I think you can be age appropriate sexy,but running around with your belly out after age 25 or so really isn’t all that sexy to me. Keep it in the house everything goes there:)
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It’s a double standard. No one criticize these women because they are celebrity mothers. Let a poor woman walk into a school dressing like these celebrity women do and people would definitely have something to say!
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But they didn’t go to the school dressed like that. Attending a school as a parent would not be the ideal place to dress that casually. What parent would even think of going to a school dressed like that?
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I believe it is wrong nomatter if you are a child or parent. You don’t have to flaunt what you have that is for your husband to see not eveyone else, and then women wonder why they get raped and disrespected, cover up and you won’t have negative attention coming your way, women stop being temtresses and have respect for yourselves, cover up, period.
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What the heck, what you wear invites rape? I apologize but that is one of the most absurd comments I’ve seen at BCK. SMH!
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I am still mad at your comment Nikki. I know they are just words, but still…I have been harassed fully clothed, what do you say about that.
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I have read some pretty ignorant comments on this board but that one by tops the cake on the stupidity chart and I’m sure offends any female who has ever had to endure such an ordeal. Women & children of all ages get raped daily and has nothing to do with what they’re wearing.
You go on to say you wear skimmpy outfits but only for your husband. So if you wear something he views as sexy and he wants sex but you don’t does he have the right to TAKE IT?
I pray you’re never on a jury for a rape case…better yet hope you never get raped only to have the animal say oh I just could’nt resist that overcoat.
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Hi GTSA! It’s BURKA time (according to Nikki)!
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I know, right? Let us now gather up all the burlap sacks we can find pronto-lol.
I’ve never gotten this mad at a comment here at BCK. Not even when I have been directly insulted and called clueless, etc.
I would think the poster would know better. Rape/sexual assault is such a horrible thing, WHAT woman invites that? I don’t care if she walked around in her birthday suit.
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I could care less what any of you think, what i believe is what I believe, if you are wearing clothes that show your body or even clothes that are to tight that show your figure you are asking for negative attention period. Grow up, is it really that serious to go out and show your body what are you looking for when you get dressed in the morning. Why do you think the other countries that stay true to their bible keep their women fully clothed. I have a great body Yeah I look good in skimpy outfits, but you know what the only one that gets to see it is my husband, women need to start having more respect for themselves, because all this world is turning into is sex, sex, and more sex, like showing your body off to everyone is the new thing, please. It invites negativity period. and I stand by my previous comment.
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Women living in oppressive countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they are forced by law to wear burqas or hijab styles, by men , STILL are RAPED and KILLED, by men in those countries.
A female journalist in Khartoum was given forty lashes and a fine just for wearing pants in public.
I think even those women living in secular countries are fed up being told what to wear by the male dominated “religious police”. It is an issue of a woman’s freedom and dignity, not being a hoochie.
Ultimately, to each his own, we live in a non secular society and have the right to wear what we choose if it doesn’t violate any indecent exposure laws which vary from state to state.
I for one am more disgusted when I see male butt cracks from sagging drawers and pants.
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Pisces, good points and examples all around.
I’d like to see some beer guts covered up on top of those butt cracks while we are at it-lol.
As long as a person’s private parts are covered up in public, I could care less what they wear. If I don’t like, I look the other way (and yeah, I may snicker, suck my teeth or admonish out of earshot of course-lol).
Some men seek to control so much about a woman, women that are not even his wife or daughter(s). Why? Control yourself first, I say…and to think other women aid and abet in certain cases and call it justified.
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@ GTSA
If you dress like a tramp expect to get treated like one. Wmen these days have this so called illusion that it is okay to walk around with your body showing and it is not okay, you know why because the lord says so, so you can be mad at my comment all you want. Women who dress like T***ps invite rape, invite getting harrassed you wear to tight of clothes you are asking to get harrassed when you get up in the morning to get dressed do you think oh damn I look good check me out I am going to turn heads today, or do you think this is to tight, this is showing to much skin I do, that is the difference between a woman with respect for herself and one without.
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Whatever Nikki, your thinking is backwards and insulting to any woman who has ever been a victim of sexual assault.
Pray, you never find yourself raped in your full body wrap–lol.
People think they are invincible. Suggest you humble yourself now (of course not for me, I could care less what you do) before its too late.
You tell a lot about yourself with the comments you make. Sad.
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Yes, GTSA, you are so correct. Especially when we realize that in other parts of the world, women are dying and being imprisoned even when they are dressed conservatively and covered literally from head to toe. It breaks my heart how some people take even the freedom of speech we have here for granted where in other countries like China they want to censor Google.
So in China when people like Ms. Nikki disagree with what you say or feel, by law they just have to keep it to themselves.
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Everybody knows they’re not virgins. They’ve both birthed babies, Nicole has produced 5 kids. If they weren’t modest women, they would be dressed in spandex or, like Brooks said, denim booty shorts, like Britney Spears or somebody like that who is also a Mom.
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@ Pisces and GTSA
I have my own opinion and I stand by it. I will keep nothing to myself. I feel how I feel it is disgusting to see women act like w****s all the time, stop looking for attention, and start acting classy for once, all this world thinks about is sex, sex, sex, and showing off your body to see how much attention you can get. Keep showing off your bodies and having no respect for yourselves, you are the ones who will deal with the backlash not me I know how to keep it classy and impress no one with my body but my husband. Grow up and get some class. Peace!
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Nikki, you are right, you have a right to your opinion and to express it, the only real issue I had was the invitation of rape/sexual assault part and so I expressed MY opinion regarding. Nuns have been raped and old women,not to mention little boys and girls. These animals (rapists) do not need any more excuses beyond their own sick minds to commit such acts of violence and disregard.
Also, classy is subjective particularly when it comes to dress. You can see that by the disagreements on this thread regarding what Nicole and Tracey are wearing in the referenced pics. Where do the boundaries start and stop exactly at what is trashy and just regular ol’ attire and according to who?
We all have our own personal boundaries of where that begins and end. I will say that sometimes I think some women AND men, do show too much on the street and unfortunately they are not as fit as the ladies featured and much more skin is showing, not a good sight, but if they are happy and I am not subjected to excessive nipples and cracks, my opinion is, their body, NOT mine.
When I have been harassed or received agressive flirtations I could do without, it has been oddly when I was dressed down and appearing rather tomboyish, baseball cap and gymies-go figure. I’ve got some big curves though–so I guess I should hate them because they “invite” attention even when coverd up which is most times since my big curves look best underwraps anyway these days. I am not as toned as either Tracey or Nicole for that matter, so I chose to dress in what flatters it and makes me feel good, not just to please another’s notion of piety–lol.
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Hello. And Bye.lol
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and made you look all the same. What’s your point?
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I think Nicole looks fine,she’s wearing a cover up with her top..Tracey.. i have no clue what she cut out and try’n to wear
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