December 18, 2010
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FAT
Yeah, you heard me, FAT. THIN. PLUS-SIZED. CHUBBY. CURVY. AVERAGE (is what, exactly?). MUSCULAR. ROUND.
I am so sick of this crap. Listen.
Ever since man has walked this earth, people have been all shapes and sizes. That’s just the way it is. That’s the way it’s always going to be. There’s nothing you can do to change it. Look at the following art work:
The women in these paintings are real women. Real models. People who had to sit in the same position for hours at a time while the artist painted them. Since when do models have to be perfectly thin? When did this happen? More importantly, WHY did it happen? Why does the current society feel the need to objectify women as being super thin in order to be beautiful and wanted? Why does the media portray this? We are making women who are not skinny feel unloved, unwanted, and ugly.
It’s about being HEALTHY, and feeling comfortable with yourself. You should love your body the way it is. If you want to get healthier, that’s great… but you shouldn’t feel so horrible for being the way you are. There’s just as many health complications and risks for being underweight as there is for being overweight, so why are the bigger people constantly attacked?
The same goes for the people who are far too thin. They get attacked too. My dad was watching a young woman who was too thin performing a song on TV, and he says, “Holy shit, she needs to eat a sandwich.”
I am just sick and tired of people attacking each other for being fat or skinny or whatever. It’s just ridiculous. So, here’s my chubby self:
Comments (59)
You’re beautiful.
I loooove this, thank you!
<333 I look like those greek girls when I feel down on myself for not being skinny those are the images I look for online they help
You look beautiful. I will never approve of anyone calling anybody fat. NEVER! name calling can be deadly.
Man has been different shapes and sizes until medical breakthroughs allowed us to understand how weight impacts our health and longevity. Now, man’s destination (or rather, what should be man’s destination) is to be healthy. That is all.
I love this!!
@SodomyClown - *sighs* emphasis on “should”.
I like to blame/thank my father for the image of self that I have today. I was never allowed to count calories (home cooked meals make that difficult as a rule), nor skip meals unless I was, ya know, sick with the flu or something. When I stopped growing at fifteen, I had become used to eating a lot during my growth spurt, and didn’t stop, but got really chubby. (check my passport picture. I always have to have backup ID at the airport cause no one believes it’s me)
No diet for me. Diets were not part of my fam’s vocabulary. Instead my dad shoved me outside to go jogging (literally shoved…). He wouldn’t let me inside till I had spent at least an hour outdoors. He’d find yardwork for me to do.
While there was a phase when I was 16 where I felt like chucking things at him… it stuck with me. Eventually, by the time I was 17, I had lost so much weight, eating three meals a day and exercising.
To this day I haven’t a clue how many calories I actually consume (my cousin claims it must be around 2,400-3,000 but then again, we had a lot of McDonalds together)… nor can I tell you exactly how much I weigh. It fluctuates between 140-150 lb, depending on what I eat.
I feel if more people had been brought up like this, we would be focusing on health, rather than clothing size and calories-consumed.
(sorry for the semi blog entry… =D )
Really this comes down to Aristotles theory on cold wet women and hot dry men. It was a status symbol to have a chubby woman. If she was working and couldn’t eat all day then you couldn’t provide for her. Or at least that’s what I learned in my renaissance and reformation class. :)
P.S- I adore your hair! It’s so tumble-y. :)
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@kkrriiissyy - you stole the words out of my mouth
Back in those days the wealthier you were the heavier you were.
@RockstarJuiceNStarburst - Don’t be sorry. I found it informative as a father. I hope I can implement these things. I hope you are around to give advice when my daughters hit the teenage years. I will need it.
@Crazy2Love – You are beautiful, and as I grow older I find myself more attracted to healthier women.
Great blog.
@FrostBit - Funny how things change. Now wealthy women spend their money on lipo instead of yummy foods.
@kkrriiissyy - ;) I’d rather have the yummy food that’s for sure.
@FrostBit - I concur. My favorite foods are all terrible for me (namely brownies and mashed potatoes).
@kkrriiissyy - Those are some good foods…..my down fall is chips with melted shredded cheese….ooohhh I’m craving some now Lol
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Great post and you are a pretty woman, fuck what the haters have to say.
This post is great…. I also like to remind people of the figurines used by ancient tribes of women of a robust nature to ensure longevity and fertility long before a size 6 walked the runway! Lovlyish posted some stuff recently I responded to, your photo was tasteful too!
you’re gorgeous.
people just need to stop being so damn judgmental and start being more accepting.
thank you for your voice and this post.
I appreciate this post. Even though I’m a well educated person and I KNOW that not all girls are skinny and rail thin the media still has a way of getting to me. Thanks for reminding me of all of this. Great post.
okay, you and many others may not be fat,
but there is unhealthy. Unhealthy is a word that describes anyone who has any issue that can be fixed from eating healthier and excersize adequately,
I’m applaud you for this post. I’m just saying that unhealthy is not good.
you’re hott
wow, you’re gorgeous.
I love my body. This topic has come up a few times now over the past week or so. I would write about it but I don’t know what to say.
BOOBIES!!!!
But seriously, I’ve always thought you are a beautiful person and a number on a scale could never change my mind.
@SodomyClown - True
haters just gonna hate
but I’m a lover.. you’re amazing <3 love it
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this post. I think those paintings are beautiful. And you are beautiful too.
Awesome post.
thanks for explaining – i think that in some cases fatter women are much more beautiful than thin ones
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I think you are beautiful!!!!!
Agreed, word for word.
THANK YOU!
since when? since about the 1960s, when twiggy changed the industry. after that the times changed. times change.
It’s too bad a lot of the fat girls who rip on people that make fun of them tend to look nothing like the beautiful greek pictures, eh?
I don’t see chubby! I see beautiful!
Media is whack btw. It is only their opinion out of of billions. Just like any other opinion, we choose to agree or not to agree with it[:
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this is amazing! and i seriously mean it… good for you for speaking out
all I can say is /THANK YOU/ !!!! :3
artists know beauty. and that photo of you is quite erotic. women should have curves
this is fantastic =]
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Arguably the women in those images aren’t ‘real’ women, but are just as objectified as women today (with the exception of the Leonardo, the final image….is it Michelangelo?, and debatably the Degas – who painted women in private moments of self reflection). Most of these pieces of art, although stunningly beautiful, reflect notions of beauty of their period. They still portray women through an extremely voyeuristic view point (and from a position of Western ethnocentricism in the case of the Turkish Baths). I understand what you’re trying to say with this entry —– I guess I just disagree with your interpretation of the artwork.
I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love to see beautiful women of all sizes and shapes. You are gorgeous!
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Society has created this Bullshit Image of “THIN IS IN and that “You have to be Thin to be Attractive”. 99% of women try and hold them selfs to the “BARBIE DOLL” Standard. And it has caused so many women to doubt their own beauty and given them so many complexes that it will keep the drug companies going for the end of days creating zoloft, prozac and any other Anti Depressant that they can come up with for the week….
We are all unique, the individual snow flake if you will. That is what makes us us! Except for Twins, Tripletes and all the other Scientifically modified people out there
( I am joking here…)
I really do wish that people would get away from the bullshit of I have to be like the Jones with how I look, how much money I have blah blah blah blah blah. It is very disheartening and is making us as Human Beings no better then Animals.
You are very Beautiful! And me myself would not change anything about ya!
Its been a long time since I’ve loved my body..its something that I fight with every day. And yet I think the women in those painting are amazing.
I wouldn’t call any of those women fat. I disagree with you that we should be accepting of people who are all sizes and shapes. There is a point where you can cross a line. I’m not going to try to define exactly what that line is but I will provide one example. I once met a woman who was in a wheel chair only because she was so fat that she couldn’t walk. The woman was deemed disabled and was receiving government checks, got the close parking spot, the whole package.
If you are so fat that you can’t walk I don’t think that anyone else should pick up the tab. It’s like saying we should be accepting of meth addicts because it’s not their fault their teeth have fallen out and they have sores all over their skin. I do look down on overeating. I think here in America people take food for granted and they’ve forgotten that there was ever a time that people had to work hard for a meal. In America you just drive to Walmart and you can get whatever you want. There are places where you cannot do that. Being fat is an insult to people who cannot even afford a meal.
I don’t think that there is anything wrong with your body at all but I do have a piece of advice for you.
If you don’t like what the media is putting out, stop consuming it. Don’t buy the magazines, don’t watch the television shows, and just turn off the damn TV. As long as the media thinks people want to see a skeleton walking down a runway in a dress they will keep selling that image.
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Honestly (this is probably my ED being a bitch and not letting me get over this) but looking at the pictures of the greek women, it just made me even more determined to work out and lose weight. It made me feel physically ill like I just wanted to run to the bathroom and throw up and I kept muttering, ‘Ugh that’s aweful! I’ll never let that happen to me! I swear!’ Now I’m just left confused and desperate to work out/diet/and smoke me a few cigs.
Fat does not mean healthy. I’m not saying skinny does. But ‘most’ of the ‘skinny’ beautiful people are healthy. I’m not saying its ok to tease or call ‘fat’ people names. But your dad’s comment was equally offensive. That said ‘fat’ is NOT attractive unless you know the person inside out and its their inner beauty that’s making them attractive. And the heavier were once wealthier comment is stupid, once upon a time wealthy people had slaves too.
Do you think that way about everyone or just people who dont over/undereat and dont fight the body shape they get with that? (not trying to put a downer on your post i just want to understand where the people who say these things are coming from). Also bravo for putting your money where your mouth is and posting a pic:)
I love this. ^__^
@infinitelyalex - Actually, fashion cycles. In the 80′s, size 8 models came back. (And now, size 8 models are considered plus size.) Throughout history, the fuller figure came back during times of reccesion.
yeah, it’s things like this that make me want to Gibb’s slap a majority of the fashion population because they’re to blame for this thin obsession.
People should strive to be happy and healthy NOT thin and unhappy(with the exception of those who blessed with a really high-metabolism and are naturally thin)
@NoMoreThinSpos - I didn’t know that! how cool :] it’s another reason to love the 80′s!
love this
I love this post.
I hate that all I can think about looking through all that artwork is that even they are thinner than I am and I’m sad about that. :/
I’m not healthy though. I’m getting there, but I’m not healthy. I will be.
Rock it, chica! Lookin’ good!