Size Is Just A Number

http://pinkpiddypaws.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/perfection.jpgJust because you are not a size 00 doesn't mean you are below "the standard of beauty". The "standard of beauty" in media are those double zeros and extra smalls. In all friken reality, that is not true! So what if you are not that 00 or that extra small, everyone grows differently. Plus, all the pictures of models are completely photo-shopped and edited, sure they look stunning but it is not real life. Being in middle school I think it is really tough to push out of the so called "standard" that media has surrounded us all with. Girls my age always out looking for the "perfect" boy, or the "popular" boy. Girls squeeze into small sizes, look at diets, even have eating disorders because they want to look "pretty". All because they want to get that boy. It has to stop it's making these girls sick. So one day I hope that we can open up the boundaries of "beautiful" to start from the inside out. That is my inspiration, to be able to make everyone be happy with who they are and how they look, especially at my age, to stop these girls from hurting themselves. I have five words  SIZE IS JUST A NUMBER.

' “I saw this on someone else’s wall. So many things wrong with this – why is a size 12 considered plus size in the plus-size model industry when that is not even a plus-size in regular stores? And a size 6 is considered fat for regular models? BTW I think the size 12 model looks gorgeous.”

No kidding. I wear a size 12. Have worn a size 12 since I can remember. The majority of women that I know are at least a size 10 and higher and I can count on one hand the friends of mine who are in the single digit sizes.

Yet mainstream world still wants to consider us overweight, plus size and that we should constantly be striving to look like the emaciated size 0 model.

Raising girls, I’m challenged every day to help them define what a healthy body image is when they’re faced with magazine and TV images of what advertisers want us to think is normal. I decided from the get go that I wouldn’t be the parent who made them “clean their plate” before they got up from the table. We don’t use dessert as an incentive to finish dinner and we try to keep the house full of healthy options for snacking. I will kick them out of the house, lock the doors and insist they run around like wild kids so they get some exercise more exhausting than changing games out of the Wii.

But that’s where I stop being maniacal about it. I don’t want the focus to be on their size but rather their health and I surely don’t want them to look at the cover of Seventeen and think that’s the standard they should be shooting for...." quote from- Hey Society Get Your Opinions Off My Body (an adult wrote her opinion so I wanted to include and older more wise opinion too)

The argument to this entire thing is that people don't care about their health. My point is, every size and shape of every single girl should be allowed to love what they look like. Saying that, you can't throw your health out the window...so please, please, please, stay healthy. :)