Numbers are funny. Also, I'm terrible at math.

[brightlotusmoon]

Upon seeing photos of a Victoria's Secret model who stood at five-nine and had a 23-inch waist, I had several thoughts:

1.Are her internal organs very small?
2. You know, I once had a 23-inch waist, not too long ago.
3. She looks unhealthily skinny, not naturally skinny. I hope she's okay.
4. I want to be 95 pounds again because I'm 4'10" and small-framed.
5. Wait, there's no fat on her body at all in that nude photo. Shouldn't there be?
6. The only reasons I want to weigh 95 lbs again are because my mother praised me when I was skinny and frowned at me when I was bigger, and because I didn't weigh above 100 lbs until I was 26 and I still feel like that's how I should be.
7. Well, if I toned up and exercised more regularly, I would feel better about whatever amount of fat I do have.
9. Weighing 118 at 4'10" with Greek and Sicilian and Romanian and Hungarian genes isn't bad. I am supposed to have wide hips, and besides, my waist is 25 inches, and if it were smaller I would look strange. I could weigh 95, but I would look like death. In fact, I did look like death. It was not fun.
10. And I am staring at photos of Victoria's Secret models and comparing their bodies to mine why again? They're Victoria's Secret models, for Gaia's sake. Snap out of it.

Comments

[zenmaster.livejournal.com]

My thoughts would have probably been more along the line of, "Good grief! How much airbrushing did they do on this girl's pictures?"

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a given. Her photos looked almost alien.

[fyremoon.livejournal.com]

The fashion industry should be modelling clothes set at the average size of their customers. This would set a trend that normal=average size, rather than normal=size00 or airbrushed.

Low sex drive is a problem with size 0 models, though that is quite understandable since I guess sex would be painful when having body organs squished together in a tiny frame.

I wrote to my MP suggesting that all airbrushed photos in magazines should have a warning sticker on them that states that "this photo has been airbrushed or digitally altered." It went nowhere because on her ad campaign, her photo had been altered to appeal to a younger generation.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that doesn't surprised me. I knew all this model's photos were airbrushed and altered, but every measurement listing showed that she had a 23-inch waist, which actually drew my focus more than the photos. When you're recovering from an eating disorder, you tend to focus on weird things!