Just a little tidbit or two:
Models were up to sizes 2 and 4 — not 0, according to Nian Fish, chair of a fashion designers health initiative.
Holy cow! A size 2-4. For women who are, at the very least, 5'9. Well, gawd, they might as well have a herd of rhinos stampeding down the runways. Sheesh.
"I think there's progress," said Fish, creative consultant for KCD Worldwide, which produces fashion shows and events. "The girls are still slim. We didn't want them not to be slim. We wanted a projection of health."
Of course they don't want them to not be slim. They do not even want them to be regular sized (hello! Average woman in this country is a size 14). The clothes these designers make aren't designed for normal women. They're soley designed - best I can tell - exclusively for these runways or the pages of magazines like Vogue. Or, possibly, for 10-year-old boys seeing as they have the body style to fit them properly. And, for the record, I find it reeeeeeeally hard to believe that someone who is 6'0 tall and can fit into a size 2 is exctly the picture of health. Good projection there. *Eye roll*
Young girls can now see more realistic shapes on television, from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty to the plus-size winner on "America's Next Top Model." And models have largely disappeared from the covers of magazines, replaced by celebrities who generate their own is-she-too-thin headlines.
Ah, yes, that plus-sized winner of ANTM. I loved Whitney. I rooted for her to
win. But, I'll be honest, I would hate to live in a world where I was 5'10, a size ten and considered "plus-sized." Not only that, but if she is successful in her career she'll be plagued with those words just like Emme is/was. She'll forever be known as "plus-sized model Whitney." Even if I was nearly 6'0 tall and even if I did have the looks to be a model, they could take their "plus-sized" and stuff it. As much as I love to watch ANTM, it just puts more of a spotlight on an industry that is, for lack of a better word, WHACK!Honestly, the whole article made me wanna go scarf down a complete package of double-stuff oreos in defiance of what these whackjobs think the female body should be. Either that or stuff a cheeseburger down one of their size two throats . . .
*Steps down from soapbox*
Tomorrow is weigh-in. If I've lost at least 3 pounds this week then I'm going to treat myself. I'll enjoy a bowl of (five point) chili cheese fries while watching the Cowboys trample the Eagles during Monday Night Football. The chili cheese fries are well within my points range, but I normally don't eat after 6:00 p.m. and this game starts at 7:30. . . so that's my treat! Later eating. Ahhhh, the things I can get excited about. ;)
Daily Menu for Friday:
Breakfast
Egg Beaters
2 slices Bacon
1 Cinnamon Roll
Total Points: 5
Lunch
English Muffin Pizzas
Total Points: 5
Snack:
Smore Sundae
Total Points: 3
Dinner
Chicken Stuffing Casserole
Green Beans
Bread
Total Points: 7
Snack
2 Haystacks
Total Points: 2
Total Daily Points: 22
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