And Posh Spice Used To Be Hot
A handful of people (thank you to each and every one of you) pointed me to the Details article which was supposed to be a tribute to curvy women, but which illustrated was illustrated with a picture of a pig in heels. The message, that the Liv Tylers and Kate Winslets of the world are more attractive than the Nicole Ritchies and Kiera Knightleys, is not a bad message:
"You see that look in the faces of formerly fleshy sexpots who have morphed into pinched, prematurely aged superwaifs. What do they do for fun? Food and sex are appetites inextricably linked in the human psyche. One could speculate that for those obsessed with not eating, even the boyfriend’s salami goes the way of the bread basket."
However, the article has still hit some nerves. Pandangon, for instance, contributes some pictures of the allegedly fat women, who are all both incredibly hot and not even remotely fat. I think the Details article is aimed more towards celebrating "normal" women as opposed to anorexic women, though, or at least that's what I got out of it.
"You see that look in the faces of formerly fleshy sexpots who have morphed into pinched, prematurely aged superwaifs. What do they do for fun? Food and sex are appetites inextricably linked in the human psyche. One could speculate that for those obsessed with not eating, even the boyfriend’s salami goes the way of the bread basket."
However, the article has still hit some nerves. Pandangon, for instance, contributes some pictures of the allegedly fat women, who are all both incredibly hot and not even remotely fat. I think the Details article is aimed more towards celebrating "normal" women as opposed to anorexic women, though, or at least that's what I got out of it.
posted by mo pie at 1:00 PM
3 Comments:
I've seen references to this article a couple of times, but just now noticed that not only is it written by a woman (Holly Millea), but the photo of the pig in heels is also credited to a woman (Jill Greenberg). Just adds another layer of absurd complexity to the whole sordid affair.
I agree with the message, but you are quite right: none of the women mentioned are even particularly curvy. I'd class Evangeline Lilly, for example, as thin. Not horribly thin, but definitely slender.
Your title struck a chord. I was sorting CDs at the weekend and came across an old Spice Girls single, on the cover of which Posh Spice was... pretty. I'd forgotten there was a time before her face acquired that scooped-out look. (Pretty or not, though, they were an exceptionally irritating band...)
Heather -
Nail. Hammer. Bang.
That the article's writer is a woman, probably getting in digs, as she perceives it, because her own body image is potentially a mess, makes it even more sick, IMO.
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