thin enough for you!?

I was scrolling through a few channels on tv the other day and landed on some show called 'Fashion Files' featuring the smallest, tiniest, skinniest, most disturbing 3rd-world looking models ever!! It's funny what these desigers consider a plus size nowadays! A plus size is someone who starts at size 14 and up.... but meanwhile, walk into any higher end store in a mall and try to find even a size 10 in anything they feature at their window! Not happening!

The average woman in today's society is a size 12. The exact measurements of a size 12 woman may vary due to her body shape (pear, apple, square) etc, but nonetheless, the size 12 woman is not fat! She is average! Yet running through the racks of Suzy Shier the other day, and all I see is size 7's! Let's be realistic for a moment! If the average woman is a size 12, wouldn't it make more sense to offer more merchandise in that size in order to sell? Instead of stocking the store with size 7's which these average women cannot fit into, and are now left feeling horrible about themselves for not getting that really nice skirt, cause her hips are 5 sizes too big!

Let's take a peak at what a size 12 looks like....

Let's take a look at the 3rd-world looking models I saw on the catwalk the other day on the show...

This is high fashion?

All the work by the ever so famous and gorgeous size 12 Miss Marilyn Monroe, to make women of a plumper nature look and feel sexy and beautiful all tossed out in the 70's by some half-witted photographer who thought 'this' was sexy....

Twiggy

Well thank-you-very-much Mr. High-End photographer... but I'd rather look like those sexy plump women on top than this see-through piece of poo!

It just kills me that little girls out there are all feeling like they have to aspire to be paper-thin when reality is, a woman has curves, shape, hips, butt and thighs... she is beautiful inside no matter what she looks like outside.... and they are just not taught that nowadays.....

I was always a chubby girl... even as a kid... always chubby! My number one defender was my big brother! While other kids had brothers who teased them and made them feel bad, not mine! He was always there to defend me, and always there to stick up for me! I don't think he even to this day realizes how much that did for my self-esteem! Thanks brother!! :)

As for my mom... she would always say growing up, that I couldn't find someone who was a model if I, myself, did not look like one! Well you know what mom!? I have found a great man! And he's tall, and kind, and gorgeous to me! And he thinks I'm beautiful... blubber and all! So there goes your theory... shot out the window just like that!! And I make sure to tell her this on every occasion I get... especially if she starts the weight talks.....

As for the point of this particular blog, well... just to remind us that when comparing apples to oranges, sometimes the bigger the apple or orange, the better! Isn't that the saying anyway?! The bigger, the better?!

I'll happily remain a size 10-12 thanks! I'm finally comfortable in my own skin!