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December 12, 2006, 2:23 am PST
 Quote From: wavdancr She also thought she had to be thinner and thinner ... and then she died. I love how one person recently said that she had a great husband, great children and a good life ... and she did NOT get any of that by losing weight!! Parents, this is simply another topic we have to tell our children the WHOLE truth about. We open the health books and show them all the bad effects of being too thin ... including the TRUTH that being too thin can KILL. We can set the right example by eating and exercising the best we can. Most of all, we remind our children that happiness IS the JOURNEY, and NEVER the destination! If we or our children or family needs counseling, we get it. Period. And that anyone who tells us or our children anything different is trying to HURT us because they are SO messed up inside. Very sad, but very true. They want us to hurt like they do, they are trying to pull us down. We remind our children over and over again all the different ways sad and hurting people try to make us feel as badly as they do, and we Just Say No to their insanity. And then we do our best to live the best life we possibly can! A life that every day, in hopefully one small way, is better than it was before. Hard? Oh yeah! But it's what we have to teach and show our children, that no matter how hard it gets we will NOT give up, we will NOT let the lost souls win power over us, ever! I was very frustrated with the views of Drew. To say that runway models are moving hangers for the sale of the clothing says that the only women who should be buying the clothing are women who fit the "0" size profile. If these companies really wanted to sell their clothing to the general public, then the clothing would be made to fit the average size woman. While there may be a few women that are naturally thin, their are a larger portion that only aspire to be thin. I am a 5'1" woman who could not ever possibly wear a single thing featured on runways. And most of the women I know could never wear the clothing either. Does that make us unattractive women because we don't fit the model image? That is what the industry would have us believe. We are not "In" because we aren't up with the latest fashions. It's not that we don't pay attention to the latest fashions. They are just completely unattainable to us. Designers don't make their money on a moving hanger. They make their money on the sale of what's on the moving hanger. Which in turn pushes women to want to look like the moving hanger in order to fit into the clothing. Drew uses painters as an example. Painters create one masterpiece. They don't market mass production. And I've never known a single person to starve themselves because they like a painting. And it doesn't stop with the designers. It's the models themselves. ie. There is a girl that hangs out in my group of friends. She is an aspiring model. She is one of the lucky few that is naturally thin. According to her, I am fat. I have three children and am pregnant with my fourth. Before becoming pregnant this time, I was 128lbs. at 5'1". I believe that I looked fine. But this girl didn't stop at picking on me...she also tells me that my 2 year old is fat. If a 2 year old can be called fat by some skewed standards of what a 2 year old should look like, what kind of future does she have? Will she be told all through girl hood that she's fat? And they wonder where the anorexia and bulimia stems from. I truly believe that if the fashion industry does not do something soon to alter this unattainable image of perfection, that our daughters will likely suffer, just as this generation has. |
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