no, superthin models make us feel good about ourselves

yesterday i read an article (more like an unsophisticated blog post, much like the one you find yourself reading now, dear reader) titled: why super thin models may be making us fat.

yes, you read it right. you'll have to look it up yourself because as a member of the thin minority it is far beneath me so i will not recommend it to anyone.

(ok not really)
So my displeasure with this whole issue has been mentioned before. with the idea of skinny models somehow influencing our body image, i began to think. and then to remember.

i always talk of "playing supermodel." you know, putting on stilettos and strutting my stuff, "faking it till i make it" as my grandma always said.

so is it that hard to believe that super thin models have played some role in the development of my body image?

LOOKING AT THE PICTURES IN VOGUE, I IDENTIFIED WITH THE SUPER SKINNY MODELS AND SAW THAT IT IS OK FOR GIRLS NOT TO HAVE HUMONGOUS BREASTS. and that is how i started to gain self-confidence.

i am not making this up.
if any of you knew me my freshman year of high school, you probably know that i started doing track because I WANTED MY LEGS TO NOT BE SO SKINNY.

so i'll give them that one, but turn it on its head: it's a good thing there were skinny flat-chested girls plastered all over magazines because it make one skinny flat-chested girl start to feel ok about her body.

perspective

miss e did not give much thought to the "madrid model ban" until this week... i finally got around to reading the october and november versions of vogue and w. in it i saw a general shun of the model ban.

miss e, after finding further information, would shun the ban as well. i finally found some "dimensions" which qualify and disqualify models from the
bbc

UN health experts recommend a BMI of between 18.5 and about 25, and some models may fall well below the minimum.

The Spanish Association of Fashion Designers has decided to ban models who have a BMI of less than 18.

in other words, miss e would have been banned from participating as well. (being generous by adding 0.25 inch to my height and maybe 1-2 lbs to my weight, i come up with a bmi of 17.8) and y'all know i am NORMAL i don't do ANYTHING to make myself this way - w or vogue had quoted a designer (i think it was dvf but might very well be wrong) who said something to the tune of, some girls are just THIN!

just because i'm thin, does that make me unhealthy? why don't you ask my doctor. i'm a lot healthier than people at the other end of the spectrum.