Quote From: mistycI don't understand what being thin has to do with self worth. It really doesn't matter how svelte your figure is if you contribute nothing to the world. What would be so wrong about trying to be more like Eleanor Roosevelt or Rosa Parks and less like Mary-Kate Olsen or Paris Hilton?
Thin doesn't mean beautiful, and having your rib cage stick out away from your body is not sexy.
I am, what we call down south, a "big girl". Although I am a married lady now back in my single days I had lots of boyfriends and dates, and party invitations. I was not popular because I was slender, I was popular because I am a lot of fun. I have a wonderful sense of humor and an inner joy that draws people to me.
Remember girls physical beauty fades, but inner beauty lasts a life time.
While I agree wiht you 100% I do have to say that as a person that is not thin, I feel the sting of not being "normal". At 47 I am virtually shut out of the dating game because I am not a Barbie.... most men like the Nicole Kidman look, long and thin. Most of the gentlemen in my bracket will havng with me as a friend.... I do have lots of them, but then they all come to me for advise on how to date "the cute young thin thing".
I know too that having raised two daughters that I had to remind them that beauty is on the inside..... they reminded me that boys only see the outside......What to do about it? I don't know. I know that I was tickled to see the spate of commercials that are chowing larger people.... not just women, but men too. It's ice to see what real people look like rather than an underfed model.
