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Old Mar 07, 2008, 04:20 PM
zombiette zombiette is offline
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i'm so annoyed at society's warped attitude towards food and body shape. i used to have an eating disorder and got down to an extremely low weight, but i'm not going to go into numbers. i tend not to tell people about this outside of the clinical context - i'd prefer to put it behind me and it's none of their business anyway. thing is, i'm also one of those girls who is naturally very thin - i'm 175m tall (i think that's 5'10 or 5'9), weigh 130pounds and take a size 2-4 U.S. but what gets to me is u always hear in magazines etc about how my body type is supposedly unrealistic, like no woman can achieve my size unless they starve themselves. yeah right...i have a BMI of 19-20, which by the way is perfectly healthy, so when u weigh me up statistically i'm not actually that skinny!! i know some people can't realisitically achieve my size, but i can't realistically achieve a size 10 so i wish people would shut up and stop harping on about how "skinny" i am. we're all built differently, some are big, some are small, but at the end of the day who really cares. seriously, being thin is not that freaking remarkable, no more remarkable than someone having blue eyes!!! u always hear about this supposed pressure to be thin, and it makes naturally thin girls feel like such freaks!! and the irony is my attitude towards food is so much healthier than women who are several dress sizes bigger than me...i'm not the one who harps on about "good" and "bad" foods or who says i'm "naughty" b/c i'm eating a piece of chocolate cake.

esp cuz i used to have an ED...i mean, u want skinny, damn it, 100 pounds for 5'10 is SKINNY, not 130!! i can't stand it how people will always go to me "omg ur sooo skinny", i mean, u never hear someone say to an overweight person "omg ur soooo fat" - it's just as rude! or when ppl see me eating dessert, they'll be like "how can u eat that and stay so thin"...seriously, can u imagine if someone said "how can u eat salad and stay so fat?"!! sorry for the rant, but i really wish women would find more important things to worry about than weight!!
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