bringing the discussion here

[staxxy]

"if you lost all that extra weight you would be totally hot"

to whom exactly? And *why* on earth do I want to be attractive to them?

Personally, anyone who is going to be that crass (not to be confused with Krass, who rocks) can kiss my ass. The last thing I want is any reason for them to try and suck oxygen from my personal space.

I am pleased to see jucier women showing up on television. But the movies are so few and far between that it is pretty easy to name them all.

And that's bullshit and needs to stop.

Especially if my experiences are any indication - lots of people think plumper women are HOT HOT HOT.

Let's storm the castle and beat some sense into hollywood. Who's with me?

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[mahariel.livejournal.com]

Whereas the evil boyfriend from whom my husband rescued me always harped on how I needed to gain weight to be attractive.

Why should we conform to someone else's standards of beauty. Be comfortable in your own skin, and you'll find people who find you attractive for who you are, not for some fantasy image they have in their brain of what the perfect person should be.

I personally find a rubanesque woman to be much more attractive than an anorexic stick insect.

-Victoria

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

which is the flip side of the coin, exactly.

I am all for people being healthy and happy and sexy, just the way they *are*. And Hollywood needs to embrace that ideal.

Fashion shoots ought to as well, but usually the runway models are also the photo models. And runway models are specifically meant to actually be built like hangars. So I doubt that will ever change.