Melissa McCarthy’s weight has fluctuated a lot over the years.
“[I’ve been] every size on the planet. I have experience dressing me as a 6, a 12 and more,” the full-figured actress told Women’s Wear Daily. “And when you go above a size 12, you don’t lose your love of fashion.”
“I always said, ‘Why can’t I find great stuff?’” the “Mike & Molly” star added.
Since the fashion industry wasn’t playing her game, McCarthy decided to take matters into her own hands. The Emmy winner will be launching her own clothing line in fall 2015 filled with pieces that are “more modern” than current plus-size offerings.
The still-unnamed label will not be exclusively plus-size, though. McCarthy says she’s “doing all sizes”: “It’s a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don’t, so why should clothes?”
Prices will range from $39 for knit tops to $118 for bottoms.
The 44-year-old, whose label will feature some incarnation of her name in its name, has a background in fashion. She attended FIT but dropped out at the urging of now-famous footwear designer Brian Atwood, a friend of McCarthy’s.
“He made me do stand-up, not finish college at FIT,” she said.
Last November, Elle magazine took heat for having McCarthy wear a bulky overcoat on the cover of its Women in Hollywood issue, while other, much thinner actresses like Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley bared way more skin on their versions of the November 2013 cover.