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When I married my late husband, I weighed 132 lbs. 5'6". The wedding card he bought for me had a bride and groom locked in a kiss with her thoughts saying "No more dieting!" Then for our first Valentine's Day he bought me a 5lb box of chocolates!!! I still didn't get the hint. I was just so upset that he bought me that. So I went down to 123 lbs. He finally had to tell outright that I was too skinny. 150 seemed to be perfect for me.
The posts in here make me sick. Kudos to whoever said most of them were married or dating "them". Aholes.
Take a drive through Conservative America and you'll see that the vast majority of women are as big or bigger than she is. Hell, even in Liberal America she's about average.
How can people get outraged that they have a model that actually represents the average American woman? It's like people are in denial about the obesity epidemic here.
Take a drive through Conservative America and you'll see that the vast majority of women are as big or bigger than she is. Hell, even in Liberal America she's about average.
How can people get outraged that they have a model that actually represents the average American woman? It's like people are in denial about the obesity epidemic here.
Conservative America? Hell, just travel to other countries where people don't indulge the way Americans do, and suddenly you realize you're not seeing obese people everywhere like you do in America, nothing like you do in America!
This doesn't mean that large people/women or men should be shamed or not treated with respect, just because now they have a real problem being overweight, most in America who can honestly say they didn't see it coming, thanks largely to parents who either didn't know better or didn't care, probably overweight themselves, as we see all the time. Obese parents sitting at food courts in malls, stuffing themselves with junk food and teaching their kids to "enjoy" the same, apparently without a second thought.
Better than shaming these people, I think, perhaps to keep pushing at health education in school, to give even youngsters a fighting chance to know better, and of course there is no good reason to sell crap to kids in school. None. Feeding kids unhealthy foods or drinks at school is just dumb, while trying to teach how to have better health, avoid disease? Hardly gets dumber than that, yet..., there are people who are even dumber than that!
She isn't obese. She's a typically-sized American woman.
I think the typically sized American woman is obese. At least according to medical height/weight charts.
That said, those shown on the runway here certainly are in that category. There will always be certain body shapes that can't be changed by weight loss into the "ideal", it just doesn't work that way. I'm fine with getting more towards a more common "ideal" than we've had. It would be almost a throwback to what used to be considered ideal, ie: a woman who clearly wasn't starving. I'm not celebrating fat though and nobody else should either. I know I need to loose weight to live a healthier and more comfortable life because I've been up and down on the scale and have experience with the better parts. We shouldn't accept anything less as a goal even if we are individually willing to put up with the problems of excess weight.
I'd say that most of the women in that show run around 16-18, with some obvious 22s and 24s.
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