Billie Piper, body image
Dec. 28th, 2006 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightlotusmoonI've been reading up on Billie Piper since she stopped playing Rose on Doctor Who. She was a teenage pop star, very big in the UK ("...at the age of 15 became the youngest British singer to secure a number one single."). She also suffered from anorexia for a few years, much worse than I had it. But she's recovered very well. And she is now very proud of her curvy shape and she loves her butt. She also loves other women's butts. I deem Billie Piper as officially awesome.
(Billie told Glamour magazine recently: "The whole size zero debate is disgusting. Some models you see are tiny because that's the way they were born. But then they'll get the attention and that will start feeding a fire. My sister, who is 13, looks amazing but she’s already worried about her figure. She loves [Victoria Beckham] and I say, 'Come on Ellie, she's tiny. What's wrong with Shakira? She's sexy, curvy'. But she has no interest.")
In related news, I have decided that I rather like my own ass. It's gotten better in shape since I've been climbing all the stairs at work every day. Three flights of stairs inside the office, ninteen stairs per flight. And if I go up and down all of them four or five times a day, five days a week, it tones me up very well. I'm not totally satisfied, but I've accepted it. I'll never have a small ass. I'm half Italian, after all. As a good friend once pointed out, I look like a woman now, not a twelve year old boy.
Now if only I could stop constantly fretting in the back of my mind about the size of my waistline (it's still tiny and part of me wants to keep it tiny), everything would be almost perfect.
*thinks* I haven't posted an entry about my body perceptions in a while. I guess I take it as a good sign that I'm more able to let things go and love the temple as it is.
(Billie told Glamour magazine recently: "The whole size zero debate is disgusting. Some models you see are tiny because that's the way they were born. But then they'll get the attention and that will start feeding a fire. My sister, who is 13, looks amazing but she’s already worried about her figure. She loves [Victoria Beckham] and I say, 'Come on Ellie, she's tiny. What's wrong with Shakira? She's sexy, curvy'. But she has no interest.")
In related news, I have decided that I rather like my own ass. It's gotten better in shape since I've been climbing all the stairs at work every day. Three flights of stairs inside the office, ninteen stairs per flight. And if I go up and down all of them four or five times a day, five days a week, it tones me up very well. I'm not totally satisfied, but I've accepted it. I'll never have a small ass. I'm half Italian, after all. As a good friend once pointed out, I look like a woman now, not a twelve year old boy.
Now if only I could stop constantly fretting in the back of my mind about the size of my waistline (it's still tiny and part of me wants to keep it tiny), everything would be almost perfect.
*thinks* I haven't posted an entry about my body perceptions in a while. I guess I take it as a good sign that I'm more able to let things go and love the temple as it is.
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Date: 2006-12-29 04:28 am (UTC)I LOVE my butt. Granted, it took me dating a man from a culture known for their asses to start appreciating but now I wouldn't change it for the world. I've lost count how many times mines been described as having the "perfect ass" when, just 2 years ago I HATED it and felt very ashamed of the size and jiggle factor. It's the first sex object on a womans bodies, they think breasts followed because they mirror the shape of a nice butt.
I'll ALWAYS have an ass. I did even when I was struggling with an eating disorder. I've accepted this. Now I just need to make peace with my stomach and waistline. =/
wished my ass looked fat in pants!
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