JoJo Siwa Compares Her Viral Chest Plate and Fake Bulge to Harry Styles Wearing a Dress onVogueCover

Mar. 15, 2025

JoJo Siwa, Harry Styles.Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic (2)

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JoJo Siwais opening up about her viral magazine cover.

“The stone bulge is — we were just giving a little spice, a little gender-bend, a little, you can be anything you want to be,” Siwa said of the ensemble. “It just was spicing myself up a little.”

TheDance Momsalum also likened the viral moment toHarry Styles’controversialVoguecoverfrom 2020. “It’s like back in the day when Harry Styles wore a dress,” Siwa continued. “Obviously, wearing a bulge is a little different than wearing a dress.”

JoJo Siwa for LadyGunn.Hope Glassel

Hope Glassel

She further explained, “One thing about me is I like to be for the people that are different, the people who don’t fit in and for the people who are just unafraid to take risks. And I feel like being that person, I have to go as far as I possibly can into the risk.”

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!As for the backlash from the photo shoot, the “Karma” singer says, “It’s brutal.”

“It’s really hard,” she added. “People are just d—s.”

Harry Styles at 2023 Grammys.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

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“Clothes are there to have fun with and experiment with and play with. What’s really exciting is that all of these lines are just kind of crumbling away,“Styles said in the cover story. “When you take away ‘There’s clothes for men and there’s clothes for women,’ once you remove any barriers, obviously you open up the arena in which you can play.”

He continued: “I’ll go in shops sometimes, and I just find myself looking at the women’s clothes thinking they’re amazing. It’s like anything—anytime you’re putting barriers up in your own life, you’re just limiting yourself. There’s so much joy to be had in playing with clothes. I’ve never really thought too much about what it means—it just becomes this extended part of creating something.”

source: people.com