Ok, here's my rant. I was just watching Jordin Sparks new video, One Step At A Time, and I was thinking how pretty she is. I would be so happy to have a body like hers, but then it kind of hit me. If she was a white girl, she would be criticized for being fat. She's got to be, what, a size 10 when she's bloated? But it seems so much more acceptable for blacks and Latinas to have a little extra padding. The media thinks they're doing good by talking about how pretty girls like Jordin and America Ferrera are, but as soon as a white actress gets any sort of a tummy, speculations of a bun in the oven start to fly! Then you see the trashy gossip magazine at the check stands at Walmart. One has the extremely skinny famous girls on the cover talking about how it's getting out of hand, then the magazine right next to it has pictures of girls on the cover in there bathing suits and they're making fun of their rolls or cellulite. Because, heaven forbid we not all look perfect, not too skinny, not too fat. Granted, that Whitney who won the latest America's Next Top Model is absolutely striking. Just gorgeous and sexy! But how much do you want to bet she slips into oblivion and we never see anything beyond her "cover" of Seventeen magazine. What is it going to take to make it acceptable, even beautiful, for women of EVERY race and skin color to be bigger than a size four?!? Dove tried to with their Campaign for Natural Beauty, but it just wasn't enough. There's a lot of brainwashing that needs to be cleaned up. But where do we start?
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We can start with the only mind we can change and that's our own. "Be the change you want to see in the world". Fit not Fat can be the new standard with healthy choices for both body and soul and each person becoming their own best, whatever that weight is. Real change may not happen in our life time but we cannot let another generation of women swallow the lie that thin is in. How does Europe handle their female image?
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