I found this story on msn.com, you can read the entire thing here: MSNBC
This is an article about "large women" being accepted by the public. We, as the public, are now accepting and even encouraging real women to photographed and filmed for whatever reason.
My first reaction to this story is "WOW!". I can hardly believe it. I am an average size woman who has always felt inferior to the image of woman that is represented by television, magazines and any other media. It is about time that the media started showing us as we really are, not the size 2 skin and bone models that starve themselves to be "attractive". Women of all sizes are attractive in their own way, and this article really shows that.
"Some fashion magazines are ahead of the curve — so to speak — on featuring plus-size models. Glamour became serious about it in the past five years, featuring Queen Latifah on the cover in May 2004, said Cindi Leive, the magazine's executive editor. In the past six to 12 months, "there is just more and more of a hunger among women to see images of women that look and feel real." A direct quote from the article to which I say ABOLUTELY! I don't want to give you the idea that I think we should all be unhealthy and obese. All I am saying is that it is about time that women of all sizes & shapes be represented. It is unhealthy for us average women to try to live up to the standard that the media has painted.
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I totally agree with you on this. Being a "larger" woman myself. Also, the fact that I have an eight year daughter and a couple of nieces that are at the age that look at magazines like Cosmo and Seventeen and they believe that is how you are suppose to look. One of my nieces, who is in the 6th grade, told me one day that she needed to go on a diet, that she was fat. And Oh my goodness, my jaw hit the floor and I was so surprised to here her say that because she is a small girl herself, size wise. I really enjoyed ready your blog because I can definently relate to it.
ReplyDeleteI know this is not an appropriate chapter 6 reply but- AMEN! I hate to look at those skinny things and try to look like them. In many cultures it is considered unhealthy to be skinny. One time a woman at the market told me that I looked fat! I was really mad but then someone told me that women here want to be fat because in their eyes it is the picture of health. So all this poor woman was doing is complementing me. After I had my daughter I lost my “baby” weight pretty fast and some concerned people came up to my husband and asked him if I was sick
ReplyDeleteAnd just like you point out in your post, I am not saying to let yourself go. I know I need to lose some more weight for health reasons, and that is the most important reason to go on a diet!
Isn't it crazy how one little photo can cause such a controversy? You would think that this woman was doing something illegal. Instead she's just a slightly overweight woman sitting in a very modest pose. Beauty is subjective but it's almost as if our culture never even recognized slightly overweight as possessing any kind of beauty, inner or otherwise. This was a great article written about beauty and how weight relates to beauty. How do young women identify with women in magazines or television? How does beauty effect their choice of role models? Is someone more aesthetically beautiful a better mentor or role model candidate? Of course not but that is what our society is leading young impressionable women to believe.
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