Well, one thing to say for starters is Miss, excuse me, Mrs. Ruffinelli loves her body. The 39-year-old has been married to her husband, Reggie Brooks, 40, a computer technician, for 10 years and the couple are the proud parents of three children. Mikel also has a 19-year-old son from a previous relationship whose birth, she says, sparked the spreading of her hips. She told the mag:
After having Andrew in 1994, I went from 13st and a size 16 to 17st and a size 20 and couldnt shift it.
Three kids later, that size jumped up to 32, accompanied by a 42D bust and a 40-inch waist (and dont forget 8ft hips).
I put [the weight gain] down to my pregnancies, Mikel said. I dont see why else the weight would go to my hips, although, I do eat lots.
Lots means 3,000 calories a day, which Mikel points out for someone her size is not a lot. She also says she was an athletic teenager and never had a problem with her weight until she became pregnant at 22. And though big hips run in her family, Mikel says no ones are quite as big as hers. But that doesnt bother her.
I love my shape and I see no reason to diet because I dont have health problems. I love Mexican food, English breakfasts and chips. My husband finds my shape Hot and we have an amazing time in bed theres no position we cant do! He tells me Im beautiful every day. Men dont fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure.
When I walk down the street I can hear people using cameras and saying: Look at her fat a**. Fortunately, I rise above it. I dont want to get bigger, but I dont want to lose my curves. I look great. I hope I inspire women to think, Shes happy with her body and I can be too!