Ever wondered why women obsess about their weight, their appearance, whether their clothes make them look too fat or too thin?
Turns out, no matter what, women are held to an impossible standard of beauty, with the goal posts always shifting. According to the Telegraph, fashion mags have started to round out models who are too skinny. Because, it's okay to be skinny, as long as you still have boobs and rounded hips.
Hat tip: the fabulous Shakesville
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Hope you don't mind, I rigged up a syndication of this blog over at LJ at request of one of my friends.
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Skinny with hips and boobs - screams 'Barbie' to me.
No problem at all with the syndication william - thank you!
Someone who knows more about human biology than me may be able to shed some light here, but I thought it was highly unlikely to be physically possible to have a low amount of body fat AND large breasts naturally. Aren't boobs largely made out of fat? Or am I projecting too much from my own experience that my cup size goes down when I loose weight?
Also I should say that I really appreciate all the click-throughs from LJ sites. I don't quite understand how LJs work, so I haven't worked out yet how to add links to those NZ women using LJ to blog. If anyone can enlighten me please feel free to email.
It's hardly shocking - isn't that why you get anorexics booking in for breast augmentation?
I'm torn on this, personally.
My initial reaction (I think I blogged it) was that good for them for not encouraging women to starve themselves (as much). As long as you're a healthy weight for you, that's the most important thing, and you don't get more beautiful by trying to deny your natural weight.
On the other hand, I think "you must be at least this wide to feature" is wrong in either direction. Being healthy and not too influenced by body-image are good criteria for models, but you can be very skinny or very fat and still meet those criteria.
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