Paris Fashion Week is in full swing. I'm not going to talk about the fashions, although we all know that I'm a girl who absolutely loves her fashion. I'm going to talk about the models.
There is lots of buzz in the press about just how thin some of the models are and what these images are doing to the delicate impressionable psyches of our daughters.
But not just our daughters. What about us? Their mothers, their aunts, their grandmothers, their sisters, their friends. These images being beamed around the globe, these women walking the catwalk who are supposed models of perfection, they weigh on our own psyches, too.
My sisters, my mothers, my friends, I encourage you to try your best to see the skeletons before you.
While I won't condemn these women for their x-ray thin bodies because I have no idea, at all, the circumstances that have brought them to this state (there are, dear friends, those of us who are just naturally veryveryvery thin), I will encourage each and every one of you to love the very body that you have. And to encourage your daughters, your sisters, your mothers, your grandmothers to do the same.
Our bodies, every single one of them, are beautiful. We do not need to be walking skeletons to portend beauty!
We can eat healthy foods and nourish ourselves, our spirit, our souls. Skeletons may make a grand fashion statement on Halloween, but they're rather out of fashion the other 364 days of the year.
We can have fat thighs. A pudgy stomach. Breasts!!
We can look like this.
Let us love every body, but let us start with our own.
An Addendum:
I was contacted today by someone who informed me that the photos associated with this blog entry were photoshopped and alarmist and not real.
Since I like to be about the truth here at Nakedjen, I've elected to remove those photos and replace them with others that are from actual runway shots and to the best of my knowledge are representative of what I'm discussing.
I'd also like to point all of you who happen to land here to THIS ARTICLE from Newsweek. They have eloquently articulated a lot of what I'm trying to say and have some very interesting facts and figures about how our children view their bodies and what we might want to do about it.
