Girls with Curves

I’d rather be a pin up girl, than a zero size ~ The Go Go’s from God Bless the Go Go’s.

Girls are suppose to have curves. No questions asked. Zip it. Go straight to go. So why is it we still live in a supermodel thin, gotta be a size zero society??? Can someone please tell me. Please explain this to me! Because I don’t fucking get it!

Since August 2006 I’ve been working hard to lose weight. Not to be supermodel thin. How gross would that be. Rather, for my own happiness and health. I was over-weight, miserable and on the fast path to either becoming Diabetic or having heart problems. I am from a lineage that has strong genes towards both of the previously mentioned diseases. Last year when my Dad had a stroke I decided no more! I wasn’t going to be one of them. So I decided to get fit and to my realistic weight. Which by the way is 140 pounds... not 104.

Yet daily, I like everyone else, suffer from image issues. Is my stomach flat enough, is my ass still too big, why won’t the cellulite on the back of my legs not go away. Obessessed with counting calories. Even after getting compliment after compliment I can’t accept that I could possibly be wrong. Why, because we are conditioned by men to believe we have to be perfect in order to get a mate.

Well, fuck them!

Yesterday I stopped counting calories. Yesterday I stopped worrying about what other people think. Yesterday I started to love myself unconditionally!

Why should I have to have the body you want in order to get your attention? No way. I want to have a nice juicy J.Lo butt, or Kate Winslet curves. Why the hell would I want to look like Paris ‘trailor trash with money’ Hilton. I don’t ever want to be a walking skeleton.

The saddest part of all of this, is people still question why the rate is so high for anorexia and bulemia. Look around. Really look around. Everywhere is promoting little girls. Women who look like 14 year olds. Promoting attitudes of ‘if you aren’t thin you aren’t cool, if you aren’t a skeleton you won’t be appealing or attractive to men.’ There are more diet drugs now on the shelves than ever before. WAKE UP! Get upset, get alarmed. We are all worried about global warming, well guess what, we should be worried about this as well.

Our images shouldn’t be based on any man or any magazine standards. They should be based on what makes us feel good. I’ll never be a size 6 and I don’t care. If you can’t love me for my soft curves and my not perfectly flat belly then you aren’t worth my love!

Women are suppose to have curves. If you got’em love em. If you don’t get em!

If we can’t love ourselves, no one else will do it for us!