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On this post (I told you Star Jones was still popular):
"I am so beyond over the goal of being a size 4. I am the happiest I have been in years and wearing a 16. Am I overweight...yes, but I was a size 20. I am proud of myself and should probably continue the downward scale tilt, but I am just so tired of trying to attain the unattainable single digit size. I was so proud to see famous fatties like Star Jones and that girl from Less than Perfect, Josh, from Drake and Josh, but now they are all making these drastic body changes and looking like everyone else in the crowd. These were the same people that were preaching the big is beautiful thing. Yes, healthier is better, but it more looks like the pressure of perfect holywood has taken the lead role. I am so sick of it and looking for a new role model who does not feel like perfect has to be a size 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Thanks, er, Ladies of Laurel Lakes, for your post! I also hate to see the "big is beautiful" people become tiny, even though I know it's nothing to do with me.
"I am so beyond over the goal of being a size 4. I am the happiest I have been in years and wearing a 16. Am I overweight...yes, but I was a size 20. I am proud of myself and should probably continue the downward scale tilt, but I am just so tired of trying to attain the unattainable single digit size. I was so proud to see famous fatties like Star Jones and that girl from Less than Perfect, Josh, from Drake and Josh, but now they are all making these drastic body changes and looking like everyone else in the crowd. These were the same people that were preaching the big is beautiful thing. Yes, healthier is better, but it more looks like the pressure of perfect holywood has taken the lead role. I am so sick of it and looking for a new role model who does not feel like perfect has to be a size 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Thanks, er, Ladies of Laurel Lakes, for your post! I also hate to see the "big is beautiful" people become tiny, even though I know it's nothing to do with me.
posted by mo pie at 7:49 PM
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I also hate to see the "big is beautiful" people become tiny,
These people are trying to make a living in a field where the penalties for being heavy are worse than in most others. They're doing what they have to in order to work. They'd rather be employed than a role model. Go figure.
That's an excellent point. Jan also makes a good point in her comment on the original post.
Being big also limits the kind of roles they can do. Heavy people are pretty much cast in comic side kick roles. They might want to be taken seriously as actors (in which case they have to lose the weight, gain it for a role, and then lose it again). It sucks, but that's what they have to do to work.
It is true, all of that. But it's a pity it all has to be such a big deal.
The current headline that's annoying me on the cover of some women's magazine is "I lost eight stone and bagged myself a man!" This refers to Michelle McManus, who is barely even famous, for heaven's sake (she won Pop Idol. I think it was Pop Idol). OK, if I had lost 8 stone (112 pounds) I expect I'd be quite pleased about it, but "bagged myself a man"? Yuck! In so many ways!
OK, if I had lost 8 stone (112 pounds) I expect I'd be quite pleased about it, but "bagged myself a man"? Yuck! In so many ways!
It's wrong on every level! The concept of "bagging" someone is repulsive, and the idea that doing so constitutes womanly success is pathetic (not to mention hopelessly old fashioned), as is the notion that one has to be thin to be worthy of love. I suppose it made a catchy headline. As my father likes to say, "Half the population has below average intelligence." The media is catering to that lower half.
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