"Curvy Women" Syndrome

Solution: don't read crap magazines.

Gosh she looks dreadful sometimes doesn't she?

Have you heard how Charlotte Church has now decided to get down to an 8, after everything people say about her. That's just cruel.

I don't think bigger women are being praised like skinny women have been for the past few years?? Look at hollywood! How many of those women are over a size 10? If curves were truly accepted then women with them wouldn't be paraded in these magazines like some revelation, they would just be accepted. No matter how many of these ultra skinny women they critise, thin women are portrayed simply as looking beautiful in their latest posh frock, as opposed to "miss x, proud of her curves and looking 'bootylicious' "

Curves are made into a big deal, so higlights our issues with them! I hate those stupid gossip magazines (heat, closer, etc)... only 6 months ago i opened up closer to find an article about what the actual weight boundaries were for your height... 80% of the women featured were under weight according to their figures, each posted with a comment from that particular celeb...i remember one saying that she was so strict about her diet because she wanted to look the way she did... no comment from closer about how it was dangerous to her health!!!!. I abhore them! I'm a size 10 with curves but am also quite muscley as I do quite a bit of gym work and I get some crappy cheap publication making me feel terrible about how I look because of how much I weigh??? I eat healthily, I get plenty of exercise and look after myself, yet it is me and others like me paying the price with our self-esteem so some company can sell more copies of it's useless magazine??!!!

P.S. I now refuse to read those magazines or anything like them and have realised that not only am I normal, but I look good! ;judge;

People like Nicole Richie etc don't look healthy anyway...they look starved and malnourished.Give me Scarlett Johansson over them any day.

What are we supposed to do? have cosmetic surgery to alter our bone structure???

Playboy circa the 50's and 60's they're the figures we should still be praising nowadays rather than the uber-thin.

Ohhh my friend and I had a good rant about this the other day!

I want to see magazines where women's intellect is challenged and appreciated rather than these ridiculous faddy diets that magazines like Closer present to us, where you're expected to eat an avocado and about 5 cashew nuts a day and that's your lot.

The reason magazines chop and change between praising skinniness one day and curviness the next is because they're trying to appeal to a mass market and really they're demonstrating the amount of influence they have.

I've got the curse of curves.

Love it.

OK, here's something i've been thinking about.


5 years or so ago, all the crappy magazines like "Heat" were printing pictures of super-thin women, and women were idolising them.

Now, this idea seems to have backfired. "Heat" is printing pictures of skinny people like Paris Hilton, and saying "nice dress sense, but far too skinny", or something along those lines. Women who are fatter (or, as the magazines like to put it, "curvier") are much respected.

I think that the whole idea is good because it encourages women not to be so worried and stressed out about their figure, and it discourages them from crash dieting, and over-exercising. However, i think the whole thing has been overdone a touch. if you're naturally skinny, then you're not curvy enough. If you're plain fat, you're a "big beautiful woman". Skinny people are viewed as fat people were viewed 5 or so years ago.

I think a balance needs to be struck; the ideal body should be not too fat, and not too skinny. But it is important to remember that everyone has a different frame with different bones, and some people suit different amounts of bodyfat.

I read yesterday that some British shops were going to start stocking UK size 0's - I didn't even know that a size that small existed! I wonder how long it'll be before women start slimming into negative-sizes...

all shapes, all sizes, all equal. Health, above ALL else, should be paramount!