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WillowTheWhisp · 06-11-2006, 10:08

OK, here we have me about 17 years ago before I started trying to lose weight. Please ignore hideously baggy bottomed jeans! I have no idea why I thought they were appealing but I liked them at the time!! I look back on this and hopefully without sounding conceited I now think this is an attractive image. I didn't at the time because I felt my bum was too big and I wanted it to be smaller, hence the dieting.

Here we have me a couple of years ago. This is not an attractive image. In no way can this image be described as anything but ugly and fat. I am the first to admit that.

But I don't think the superwaif catwalk models are any more attractive or any less ugly than the second photo of me and yet they intend to look like that and they are expected to look like that by a fashion industry which says that looking like that is necessary in order to be a fashion model. Why else would the pleasantly attractive Sophie Dahl have conformed? She was already beautiful but she spoiled her beauty in order to conform.

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WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: Portrayal of women: (split) OK, here we have me about 17 years ago before I started trying to lose weight. Please ignore hideously baggy bottomed jeans! I have no idea why I thought they were appealing but I liked them at the time!! I look back on this and hopefully without sounding conceited I now think this is an attractive image. I didn't at the time because I felt my bum was too big and I wanted it to be smaller, hence the dieting. Here we have me a couple of years ago. This is not an attractive image. In no way can this image be described as anything but ugly and fat. I am the first to admit that. But I don't think the superwaif catwalk models are any more attractive or any less ugly than the second photo of me and yet they intend to look like that and they are expected to look like that by a fashion industry which says that looking like that is necessary in order to be a fashion model. Why else would the pleasantly attractive Sophie Dahl have conformed? She was already beautiful but she spoiled her beauty in order to conform. __________________ Last edited by WillowTheWhisp; 06-11-2006 at 10:11.