Billions are invested in making us feel bad about our bodies. We are constantly being shown images of stick thin women and being told that they are beautiful and we must have a body like theirs to be beautiful. With red carpet season now over we were heard commentators say ‘how gorgeous does she look’ and ‘you wouldn’t know that she had a baby two months ago and look at her now, absolutely stunning’.
We must not forget that Celebs have a ‘glam team’ to help them look perfect with someone on hand to retouch their make-up and hair every second. Have you ever seemed them without the glam team? I bet many you wouldn’t recognize. Do you have access to your own team every day that go everywhere with you? I didn’t think so. A reality check is needed. Off the red carpet and away from the cameras many look ordinary just like you and me.
You are not told what these women in the spotlight put their bodies through to be stick thin and be the ideal desired size, that we are constantly told is beautiful and what we should be like. If
they gain a pound or two, three, four or more the magazines rip them apart.
This tells me and the world they are normal; people do gain weight! Media tears into them, they are then forced to go on crazy diets, get a personal chef who prepares all their meals, workout every day with a personal trainer, release DVD’s and the ‘ordinary woman’ buys into all of it. The media puts pressure on women to look good. We are bombarded with ‘perfect images’, so many different diets ‘the bikini body diet’, ‘loose 10lb for your holiday’ but as soon as you get on holiday you eat and eat and drink, the weight you lost comes straight back. The media will allege a Celebrity was on named diet like the Maple Syrup diet and lost lbs, but we rarely hear it from the ‘horse’s mouth’ – the elebrity that they actually did that diet! Yet many women rush out to try it. Diets are short-term solutions that do what’s on the tin. For long-term solutions a healthy eating plan and regular exercise is what is needed to shred the weight and maintain it.
Often I over hear conversations with women complaining about parts of their bodies they dislike, very rarely I hear them say ‘I love my body’. We put so much time and effort into hating out bodies, it’s about time we started to accept what we have, learn to appreciate it and dress for your shape. How would you describe the perfect body? Lips from this person, from that person,
a bottom belonging to another, a catwalk models long legs put them all together makes one perfect body. By the way what is perfect? Pictures in magazines are airbrushed and use techniques to make the clothes fit. Make-up can be used to alter/enhance body parts too.
Many women run to the cosmetic surgeon to make them look better externally, liposuction here and there and everything possible to give them that ‘perfect body’ they hunger for. In reality once women start they will want other procedures. Does the knife really make them feel better within themselves? Probably for a short time until another part they feel needs to be ‘fixed’. Breast implants (augmentation) are the number one popular cosmetic surgery procedure carried out around in the world, something I don’t need or want.
We need to learn to admire great women not for their waistlines.
We are so caught up admiring other women’s bodies but not their brains, what happened to admiring women with brains? I admire Becky Anderson (CNN journalist and news anchor), Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Hilary Clinton for their brains and what they bring to the world. We need to accept that looking perfect won’t make us happy. To be truly happy we need to accept who we are, what we have, start loving you and stop trying to look magazine perfect. Eating healthy, might even involve changing your lifestyle to include regular exercise and a healthy eating plan; however, you are allowed on day of naughtiness. Binge drinking and eating is not healthy eating! Yo-yo dieting will eventually damage your immune system! Osteoporosis (brittle bone disease) is a massive problem for women as they get older and crash dieting doesn’t help.
My body is not perfect according to the magazines but my body is perfect for me. When I look at my body I see I am in good shape, nice and firm in the right places. I am tall unique, love it and love my height. My body is more than my hips, thighs and stomach. I’ve never been a skinny minny as I love food, however love working out 5 times a week too. I may not have a six pack but I do have curves in the right places They are very few women who are naturally slender and eat properly. We all come in different shapes and sizes. You can be fit and shapely as a size 16 and as a size 10. We need to make our health our priority and stop wasting our times wanting to be something else we are not. Love yourself and focus on being health, not skinny. Be conscious of what you are eating and
drinking. We all have the power to create the life we choose.
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