A Step in the Right Direction...?

Well, holy plus-sized panties, Batman...! Could Hollywood actually be heading a step in the right direction? 

I was reading in a news article about how Christina Hendricks -- so far best known for her roles in shows like "Mad Men" and "Serenity" -- was named the new archetype of beauty. I was shocked, and it was in an entirely good way. Why...? Because she's beautiful. Because she's healthy. And because of her health, she's glowing and radiant. By far, I think that she is one of the prettiest women in Hollywood and/or on TV to date. 

Christina has that beautiful hour-glass figure that stars like Marilyn Monroe and Betty Page made famous -- and in their day, they were sex symbols. Now, those two women would be / have been pegged at fat in Hollywood -- all because they were healthy and you couldn't see their ribs. (Speaking of seeing ribs, aren't animals considered malnourished when you can see their ribs...? So, shouldn't someone be speaking out that they should eat more or something...? Just saying...)

Alright, so anyway, I think that this is a good thing. She's not a size two or four or six. I think the article said that she was a size 12 -- and please forgive me if I'm wrong. I read the article before I fell asleep the other night. And it's great that she's in the double digits when it comes to what size clothes she wears. Hell, even if she was a nine or 10 it would still be great, because it shows girls that they don't have to be so skinny that they make anorexic skeletons look fat. (And yes, I know that eating disorders are no laughing matter and nothing to thumb your nose at, but that's the image that younger girls and teens and even young women are bomb-barded  with today. Likewise, the parent should be the one to talk to the girls about what's healthy and what's not, but that doesn't always work.)

I'm proud to say that the clothing size I wear is a nine. I'm proud because I'm healthy and I'm at a healthy weight. Yeah, maybe I could stand to lose five pounds, but it's not like it's going to hurt me dramatically if I lose or gain five in either direction. I'm not obese, I'm not fat - at least not in the sense of health; maybe in the celebrity standard - I'm comfortable in my skin. I'm comfortable being me. And now that a real woman has been named as the new archetype of beauty and sexy in Hollywood, it's my hope that more girls and women will be comfortable in their skin as well.  Maybe with the old Hollywood coming back - the Hollywood that made those bigger-sized women sex-symbols - there will be a decrease in eating disorders that are seen in young girls and women today. 

And no -- I'm not saying that you need to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. I'm saying that you need to be at a healthy weight. You do need to eat - and you can eat whatever you want as long as it's in the right portions. That's the important part. And girls -- never ever let a man tell you that you're ugly because you don't weigh 90 pounds soaking wet. Never let them tell you that you need to lose weight because you don't look like a stick - like Keira Knightly. Don't stand for that shit. Be a real woman and bump titties with them -- you'll sure as hell win.  Listen -- real women have curves. Get used to it. Grow up. Get real. REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES. Women are supposed to be sexy and ample and supple and voluptuous all at the same time. If women were supposed to be as thin as twigs, then we would have been.