Skinny People

So I was reading this blog this morning about the Victoria Secret swimsuit magazine.  She was bitching about the fact that this stupid magazine comes out at what could possibly be the worst time in the world to look at skinny, anorexic, photoshopped skeletons.... I mean women.  Valentines Day AND Girl Scout Cookie season?  I mean really!!  Come on!!! What better way to send a woman into a spiral of self loathing and have all this freakin' chololate around them and then send them pictures of half naked stick people with breasts?
I hate what our society has done to the minds of most women.  I am guilty of it.  I pull at my stomach.  Poke and prod.  Stare at myself in the mirror.  Why do we do this to ourselves?  Why do we let a ... a... company... a franchise... the work of men (I really believe that the people who sit and point at all the flaws of these gorgeous women, must be men, right??)  ...
Why do we let them tell us how we should look??  We can't all look like skeleton.  I know what my idea is of *my* perfect body type.  I want to be strong.  Not like.... Arnold Schwarzenegger.  But... like... Linda Hamilton.  Strong.  I think lean muscles are sexy.  I think a little bit of bulge in the muscle is sexy as well.  But I don't want to be skinny.  Strong.  I think we all need to just STOP.  Just.... fucking STOP.  Ya know?  We don't need to be a size zero to be happy with who we are.  We all need to take a look at ourselves.  
Me?  My floppy tummy?  I grew two children.  I MADE two people.  MADE THEM!  That is incredible!  And my husband doesn't seem to mind it.  You know the only person bothered by my roll?  Me.  If I look at pictures of me... look at them as not me, but how someone else may see me... I'm not that bad.  Not anymore.  My kids?  They use my tummy as a pillow.  They lived there for 9 months.  They find comfort there.  And that's okay.
I am so glad to see so many celebrities speaking out against the photoshop epidemic.  Kate Winslet called them out. You can read about it,  here and here.

I think it's hilarious when people like Kim Kardashian do magazine covers like "I have cellulite!  So what!?" and there is not one dimple in the pictures.  I hate photoshop.  It's ruined our culture and out self-esteem.