Lollipops……………

And no I’m not talking about the candy.

I was sitting at home trying to think of something to write about this week and I was coming up with nothing! Nothing I could think of was sounding good, so I said well screw it for now, I’ll just watch tv.

So I scrolled through my PVR and I came across the Victoria’s Secret fashion show from November.

So I thought, ok, well this will kill an hour and I watched it.  It occurred to me as I was watching, that these women are supposed to be the crème de le crème of models, the ultimate aspiration of women, and fantasy of men. It also occurred to me; they all looked like plastic and kind of like 12 year old boys…… My family calls them lollipops because their heads are way bigger than their little tiny bodies.

Then I remembered seeing something on FB that someone posted about women having unrealistic expectations about the “knight in shining armor” and I totally agree; that is totally unrealistic BUT do they in turn, have the unrealistic expectation that we are supposed to look like VS models? If so, I really hate to burst your bubble, but the models don’t even look like the models.

Case in point, my girl Lily- I absolutely adore her, think she’s super gorgeous and seems down to Earth, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking she really looks like she does in the magazine.





  

As you can see, still a super pretty girl, but not near as plastic looking in real life- the fake tan, fake hair, tons of makeup, and clearly as you can tell from that met gallery photo, a HELLUVA lot of padding in the boobal area! That’s because (biology lesson approaching) boobies are made from FAT- if you do not have fat on your body, then you will not have boobies….you can pad them up or get something surgically implanted but they ain’t going to appear naturally unless you are some sort of freak of nature.

What’s even sadder is that to look like this, a lot of these girls have to do some pretty drastic things. Smoking and coffee and drugs to curb the appetite and my absolute favorite- cotton balls soaked in juice. Need that full feeling but hate the taste of regular cotton balls? Soak them in your favorite juice and you’d be amazed at the results! No wonder so many of today’s young women have horrible body image and low self-esteem. And it’s not just men; we do it to ourselves too.

It’s so sad to see that on the runway and in a lot of stores, the normal is to have women’s clothing with teeny tiny waists and hips and legs…designed by fashion designers who  “know a woman’s body” Are you serious? You, the tiny little men who like little boys design for women??? Give me a break.

And before you think “Oh she must be just a jealous fat chick” I assure you I am not. I’m actually on the lower end of the size scale, but since I have hips and a bum and a bit of a belly, l absolutely look and feel like a woman.

I watch what I eat, and I exercise (even though as I stated earlier I absolutely hate it!) There is no reason to go out of control and rebel against society’s view by stuffing your face with a pie….but don’t starve yourself to fit some unrealistic ideal either.

And ladies-If you find yourself with a man that prefers the little boy look, that really says more about him than you doesn’t it ;)



One of these models was not born a woman...betcha can't guess which one????