I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the ongoing message that the natural, curvy, womanly body I was born into is unacceptable. I’m tired of being horrified when I hear that five-year old girls already criticize their bodies and think they need to lose weight. I’m tired of the media forcing their limited, unattainable version of beauty on us.
The underweight beauty ideal of today is a complete invention of the media machine. Nature never intended women
to look like teenage boys with large breasts, but the relentless media depiction of this body type powerfully
defines it as the ultimate in beauty.
Without starvation and plastic surgery, it’s impossible for 99% of women to achieve this ideal. So we learn to dislike our naturally gorgeous bodies and try desperately to change them. The toxic body messages we are deluged with every day cause eating disorders and widespread unhappiness.
53% of 13 year-old girls and 80% of adult women spend every day disliking their bodies. It doesn’t have to be this way. People naturally have all sorts of different body shapes and sizes. We don’t have to let the...