Since I don't think anyone ever really reads my little corner of the internet, I thought I'd blog today about something that's on my mind. Body Issues.
To give you a bit of background... I'm 5ft7, generally a size 10 but sometimes an 8 on top, and I'm pear shaped. I'm not tall or skinny enough to be a supermodel in a magazine, nor am I big enough to be called a "real woman" by the media either. But I am healthy.
I go running, I do pilates, I balance my love of cupcakes and carbs with lots of veggies. My BMI is in the healthy zone. But somehow, I've been made to feel awkward about it by society. The pressure to look a certain way is crazy. Sometimes I feel like the media looks down on me for not having perfectly chiseled abs like Cameron Diaz and at the same time says I'm not a real woman because I don't have "curves". I feel awkwardly in between.
I'm all for body confidence. I love it that the media mentality of "skinnier the better" is being broken by plus-size women. But please don't forget me, the girl who's somewhere in the middle. Please don't tell me I'm not real because my curves aren't as big as yours, because I am. We are all real, and we all come in different sizes.
My dream is to be celebrated for being healthy. I want ALL women to be celebrated for that. Regardless of size or shape, I want to be able to say that healthy is beautiful, because it is. What's more, healthy is universally achievable, women aren't all the same and we will never all fit the same mould. But we can all be healthy. I can be healthy, supermodels can be healthy, plus-sized ladies can be healthy.
Until the media stops selling size as important and starts selling health as important, there will always be someone left out. But that's just my thoughts... What do you think?
