body image article summary

Size twelve would be a skinny size for me. Someone offered to sell me her fat clothes when she lost a lot of weight, they were twelves. I have not been there for at least thirty years, I bet. People do not realize or want to admit that most men want some cushioning. Paper thin and bony can be really uncomfortable to be around. A twelve would be very thin for me.

As I told my daughters as they were growing up. As long as you are healthy,happy and an overall genuine nice person, your size should not matter because of genetics we are not all meant to be model figures. How many of these model figures are all of the above?

I think it is unreal to generalize that women have to be thin in order to be beautiful. I live in the Philippines where the dress sizes are very small. There is such a thing in fashion called "Asian" sizes. This means that the size 6 is really a plus size for us here. I know because the shirts that my brothers send me from the US is a size 8 and if I buy my clothes here in the Philippines, the size the XXXL . My friends aren't paper thin too, so we all shell out extra cash in order to buy clothes that fit us because we are all "plus size" women. Plus size dresses here are more expensive that the regular size clothes.

Size 12 is thin to me too, but it depends from person to person. Most of the women try to make their size to a minimum and this may effect their health. For some we its that way, God has blessed different people with different sizes and structures. Lets be happy the way we are.

Sizes have changed a lot since I was growing up. When I was a teen in the 70's, that size 12 model would have been a 16 at least. They've made sizes smaller as they've tried to brainwash us into being beanpoles. Just as being too fat can endanger you, so can being too thin. I'm glad to see that people are realizing how unrealistic those super thin models are. If you look on the street of any city you won't see many rail-thin women. I don't know why they model clothing in sizes that most normal women would not fit into. It's a shame that with all the crap a girl has to go through growing up, we saddle them with image problems and make them think they have to adhere to a nearly impossible "perfect" body. We let the media do this to us and our daughters and it's time to tell them enough is enough. I hope articles like this become more common.

Gone are those days when thin and bony models were taken to be the best.I think you have not gone through the one article which came up when in the paris the palce of fashion stated that they were going to throw away the ultra slim or better to say skeleton models away as they are not healthy and they are a threat to others also especially youngsters as they just go for everymeans like crash dieting and even regular fasting to get that body shape.It was passed there as a guideline to all the desighners to not to hire such models untill they gain some weight. so you can understand the skinny is unhealthy rather than size 12..

Body image is such a problem in this country. Women shouldn't feel bad about how they look, but they do when people constantly criticize how they look, and now, it's even becoming a problem for men. My brother had issues with vanity. He never wanted to look like his father. Well, yes, he had his father's features, but he was younger, more handsome, taller and skinnier than his father was. My brother had the ladies wrapped around his fingers, but he was obsessed with his appearance. This is the same for a lot more men today. Men won't admit it because of their "male pride", but when they can't get a woman, and people won't go near them because of "something", they know that something is wrong with them, but they can't figure it out. Women are practically criticized 24/7, so we know what we have to improve on and what might be wrong with us, and sometimes it can be helped and sometimes it can't. Is appearance and body image an issues? Yes.

we're all supposed to be hairless sticks now,don't you know? feh. when i modeled,i was told occasionally i was "overweight" at size four,and size 2 should be my "ideal".needless to say i told them to cram it sideways.sorry,i'm not eating once a week.

I did not look at the link...but to be honest, 3Snuggles, I am confused about sizing nowadays...sometimes I think it is manufacturer specific..especially NOW that here in Canada...all of our sizes are metric, and I am Old-School! Sizing is very confusing, so I carry with me, a tape measure if I am clothes shopping...especially for jeans or slacks! I can't honestly say what size 12 looks like! DUH!

I saw a big thing on the news about this the other night...said the older models like Christy Brinkley etc now look fat compared to the new models....remember Twiggy? We all thought she was sick...and I also think being that thin is not good for your healty!

I have not been a size 12 since I was probably 12 years old. I am heavier than I would like to be right now, but I honestly think I would look ridiculous as a size 6. I would be perfectly fine being a size 12 again. Heck I would settle for size 14. I think super skinny women look sick. Fact of the matter is most guys don'r really want those super skinny sick looking super models so I don't understand why they try to get women to WANT to look like that.

I don't think women should be as concerned about what men do and don't like. For every single woman in the world there is a man out there somewhere who will love her exactly as she is, she just needs to wait and find him.. and in the meantime she needs to worry about liking herself for who she is and not trying to change to make the rest of the world like her.

I think that a typical model should be a woman that is a size 12 and a plus sized model should be a woman that wears a size 18-20. The reason I feel this way is because of the fact that most of the women in the United States today are a size 12 or larger. Now me, I'm a plus sized woman wearing a size 22 most of the time (although I did get a pair of size 20 jeans for Christmas and they fit me wonderfully). That said, yes, there are times that I'm frustrated because I'm a big girl, but overall I think I have a pretty good self-image.