as i pour half a teaspoon of soya milk onto my bland, greyish muesli and peer through my glass of warm water to the article behind that dictates to me the top 10 ways to get my "bikini body" and tells me that size 8 is the new size 80, i find myself wondering if it's all just a load of thinspiration rubbish. What is a bikini body? It's certainly not an emaciated size 0, teeny weeny, all ribs and defined organs corpse lying on a beach swamped by even the smallest bikini they sell in TOPSHOP.
And yet we still find ourselves being taught that thin is better, thin is hotter, thin is... well.. thinner. We are taught to aspire to be like the cat walk models who only eat on Sundays and the women modelling lingerie on posters and TV who have the perfect figure and so decide to shout it out by modelling what is basically a scrap of badly diamanted fabric. We are inspired to lose weight any way we can by magazines that don't actually know what we look like and how thin we are.
Anorexia is an ever growing problem in the UK and we ought to be inspiring girls to avoid developing eating disorders not telling them that it's the only way they are ever going to achieve the supermodel body they've always wanted!
So I'm saying no to 'bikini body' promoting magazines. I'm saying no to size 0 models telling us that it's so lovely being skeletal. I'm saying no to thinspiration, no to eating disorders and no to my soya milk and muesli- give me nutella on toast any day!!
Tip: Feel inspired not to be thinspired. You are great the way you are.
Despite being told by every advert i see that i'm not happy with myself, i am-i may be chubby but all would be a lot worse if i was hungry as well. One of the most annoying things is see is when there are "plus-sized" models who are thinner than or the same size as me, yet are known as "plus-sized"-they are NORMAL, and generally far more attractive than "regular" models. The media who only ever employ thin women are controlling society, and worse-the way we think. The idea that you have to be, as you rightly said, emancipated to be beautiful is stupid-God would never have put delicious foods on the earth if he did not intend for us to eat them.
ReplyDeleteexactly! why is the media so determined to make normal people feel bad about themselves?! Not everyone resembles a sack of bones and rightly so i say!! if you are happy with yourself then you are already the luckiest person in the world- why would you need to change the way you look? You don't. No one who is content does.
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