Cushion for the Pushin' (Expression) A term used to describe a particularly shape and large posterior, usually found on attractive, voluptuous women.
By now you've probably seen the Before and After photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt, who has lost 18 pounds over the last 10 weeks (or so she says in
Us Magazine). The angle most gossip bloggers are taking is fair: She kvetched and kvetched about how not ashamed of her body she was, how she was proud of her figure, and how it was OK not to be a rail with boobs for the cameras and then she turns around and loses nearly 20 lbs, which seems an obvious concession to the assholes who took her to task for those supposedly aesthetically unpleasing beach photos the paparazzi took a few months ago.
But what most people are missing is a more obvious point, at least from what can be gleaned from the before and after photos above, and that is: She actually looked
better with a little meat on her bones. And I'm not just saying that to win brownie points from our average-sized female readers. I legitimately mean it: She looked better when her body could actually hold up a bikini. Now, her head looks too big for her body, her chest has lost its
bang-zoom, and her fab-ass isn't nearly as fab. My apologies for borrowing a phrase from our misogynistic brethren, but she's lost that cushion for the pushin'.
But more than that, she's sold out to the very idea that she once rebelled against: That you have to be 36 x 26 x 36 to succeed, at least to the extent that her minimal talent allows. J. Love is a pretty woman, but she was a lot prettier when she was a woman and not a poster girl for waifism.