are you a stick or a bootylicious babe?

When are the designers ever going to realize that EVERYONE is not a perfect size 6...or lower. More than two thirds of the world population is either overweight or underweight. Unfortunately it's the poor young girls who see these waifs in the magazines that suffer the most. They starve themselves or throw up what little they do eat to become these unrealistic idols they watch and admire. Many of these skinny girls are not naturally thin, but are virtually starving themselves to keep the weight down. The girls reading the magazines try to look like them, and end up trying the same tricks, and potentially get into the same problems with eating. Go to any club, the guys don't go for the skinny girls, they go for the girls with the hour glass figure. Look at the beautiful women that you see every day, and I'd say less than 5% have that stick insect shape the young models have. It makes me sad - and angry. Women should be encouraged to look healthy, be fit and to be confident, no matter what size or shape they are. I feel that current fashions should be available for every woman. Let the models be anything that their purveyors want them to be. Ordinary people should be less gullible than to believe that that is the only way to be. I think, models should be of all sizes, not just stick thin, because big women are pretty and they like to dress up and look nice too. Everybody should have a right to enjoy fashion whether they are a size 8 or a size 20. Designers do not sell clothes only to skeleton looking people. These skinny models look like they are dead-alive and it is not attractive. Clothes look good on others just like they do on skinny models. Sometimes, clothes look even better on thicker women than skinny ones. Now the Fashion industry is still looking for a Skin and Bone model. They should go out and walk around and see that the average person are not like that and maybe then they could start to re-think this concept. By using all shapes and sizes designers would be able to show if they have any real talent, and it may help in the battle against eating disorders.I get fed up with this idea of "normal" shape. I'm sure all the skinny people out there must be most offended by being told they're "abnormal". It's just personal preference and the way people are made, and designers should take more notice of this. When are people going to realize that a happy woman is far sexier than any shape or size. Women are 'queer cattle' (so John Buchan wrote) therefore, shouldn't we judge them with a more abstract yardstick than a tape measure! A few people in the fashion industry earn big money dressing up skeletons in ridiculous clothes. The media earns big money selling images of the skeletons. The public pays big money to look at the skeletons, says how ridiculous they look and then tries to emulate them. I admit, it’s a nice feeling being light and fat-less! But if it makes you so stressed, I say quit the suffering and enjoy food. But if you don’t really enjoy eating, or if you do but your stomach can only take in a few, then don’t force yourself. We just have to enjoy what we have, you know. We don’t know when we’ll leave this world, so we better enjoy life before we’re gone. It’s all dong things that make us happy, right? *grin*
Surely everyone realizes now that skeletal models on the catwalks promote a "look" which, if emulated, results in the Posh Spice head-on-a-stick mentality. I have one piece of advice for my female friends (and a reminder for myself!!): EAT! Bones are not meant to be seen, they are supposed to support the rest of you!