So this girl caused quite a stir this past week! If you’re a comment whore like I am, you can get a sense of America’s reactions by reading all 500-some comments on Cindi Leive’s blogpost there (my favorite is the one from the 47 year-old exercise fiend who claims that both she and her husband were disgusted by the picture, and that he “had to look away repeatedly for fear he might loose [sic] his stomach” and also that “In [her] opinion, [Lizzy] should be ashamed of herself for looking like she does.” I mean, really, though, don’t hold back; please, if the picture bothers you you should really speak up…anonymously…as a commenter on a blog…).
Really, after that, there’s not a ton more for me to say, so I’ll just do a few quick soundbites:
1. Sure, put a normal looking girl in a 3″x3″ picture on p. 194 of your magazine. Viva la Revolucion it’s not...
2. But let’s not all go off about how excited we are to see a woman who is “the dress size of the average American woman” in a fashion magazine and then ignore the fact that obesity is a real problem in America. No, not for this girl; she looks great. But she’s also, like, what? 5′10″? 6′? And a size 12. I mean, she is just a big girl, every which way. But the average American woman is not that tall, and she’s still a size 12. Which can also be okay, if you’re healthy and that’s just the size you are (God knows I know from whence I speak, for lo, I have seen the valley of the skinny girl but have not pranced through her fields; have seen the glistening size 2 rivers, but have not drunk from their waters), but, like, we are a fat nation, and that’s a no good-a. So let’s not use Hottie McAmazon here as an excuse to let ourselves go completely, America!
3. Bassie and Dina call this look the “squishy mommy”. Nice. (At least they know the fate that awaits them…)
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