Body Images

Wow. You hear so much on the news and in magazines anymore about how fashion models are too thin, setting bad examples for young girls, actresses are too thin, gaunt, whatever. How we need to errase the body image thing for good. How your build is your build, how you look is how you look. It shouldn't matter if you're thick or thin, tall or short, have curly hair or straight hair. Young girls need to love their bodies for how they are. I saw something yesterday about how moms are now on the war path because Tinkerbell and other cartoon characters are getting a makeover and now have hour glass figures and wear short skirts. Hmmm. Lets not get into how buggs bunny and daffy duck have been turned into creatures that would have ascarded me as a child. Bring my cuddly characters back please.

Yesterday on the internet news were "articles" about how Kate Middleton is looking too thin and gaunt. Bulimia and her intended's mother had eating issues. And the public is now weighing in on how much weight she seems to be losing (and how there isn't any neeed), oh she is losing too much weight, she will look horrible. A doctor was interviewed. Not her doctor mind you, just a doctor. Nutritionist was interviewed who basically said you just need to eat right. Hope they didn't pay her much but at least she didn't get sucked into the foray. They talked with bridal organizers who said the bride always loses weight right before the wedding from stress. The people on the street said oh, she is thin, she shouldn't try and lose any more weight. Blah, blah, blah.

So, we're suppose to be encouraged to not make weight and body and image an issue, encourage our young girls to be and love themselves as they are. Make our sons less concerned about the looks of a girl/woman because her looks are not who she is. However we are also free to criticize a woman for maybe losing a few pounds before millions of people watch her walk down the aisle and quite frankly she didn't look to me like she had been losing weight.

I can hear it now, after the honeymoon, and she has relaxed and eaten nothing but chocolate and champagne for a week (which is my ideal vacation) the talk will be how she's "porked up" and maybe she should watch what she eats more closely.

Naw, she won't have to do that, the world at large will be sure to let her know her eating habits are atrocious and what she can and can't have.

That is one girl far braver than I will ever be.