It's a big or size zero (however way you look at it) issue, It's in press daily, the debate on stick thin girls around towns or walking the catwalk...It's a subject that is close to my heart due to the fact that like every teenage girl we all hate our bodies, I don't think I can name a single girl who looks at themselves in the mirror and doesn't wonder..what if? I also like most people these days have encountered not only myself but in friends or in family people who suffer with some kind of body dysmorphia. An absolute disgust in your own appearance and for what reason?
The only reason that I think engages and provokes this vicious circle is of course the Media interest...the ideology of the ultimate 'beach bod', the cruel nicknames of 'love handles' and 'thunder thighs' in by gone days, these characteristics were what women aspired to have. Curvy, vivacious women that embraced there curves rather then try and become a washboard..
Now I'm not going to be a hypocrite, My legs are too big, my feet are too big, I want smaller hips, a smaller nose and a breast reduction...and why? because people keep flaunting these airbrushed celebs in our faces and the real idea of a woman's body is ultimately tarnished!
Working in fashion is of course highly renowned for it's stereotypes of stick thin women and it was working on one publication recently during my interns that i realised just how fierce the women's idealistic body really is...
So I'm sitting in the office, eating my second cupcake from Lola's of the day when in comes the stylists and two very tall, very skinny models...Everything you would expect from a catwalk model...they posed, fiddled with their hair, tried on numerous outfits then left...I think throughout the entirety of their fifteen minute stay in my office I gawped at their 'perfect' bodies the whole time...
When they left I heard the most remarkable, yet truthful but hard hitting comment I think possibly I had ever heard relating to this particular subject and it was from the stylist.."So what one shall we go for, the one with big hips or the one with big ears" I couldn't believe it.....there was NOTHING wrong with these girls...big hips....if they had big hips, what the hell did the stylist think that I looked like.
So me, being me, asked....Why do stylists use stick thin girls instead of curvy ones, because we all know it would make ourselves feel normal for once..(if your like me, seeing a picture of Pixie Lott covered in acne makes you sing and dance) and the reply I got "clothes just look better on skinny girls"
and that was it, there was my answer, shocking, true, and summed up in a sentence, It's no real answer or question for the whole self hatred of the body but It was a point that a professional thought of as valid enough...
With that I finished off eating my cupcake and vowed that tomorrow would be the point of healthy diets and exercises...funnily enough it never came...
S.x
