Fat and Beautiful

Posted by admin in Sunday, July 13th 2008

Increasingly, women with more than a few weight of feeling rejected or discriminated against by their weight undergo Duris schemes to try to resemble the ideal of skeletal bodies that mark fashion. Thickness is not synonymous with beauty, but more and more big beautiful, proud of her figure and decided to Lucas.

The fat is beautiful, says popular wisdom, and “Women really have curves,” reads the title of the film directed by the Colombian Patricia Cardoso. The image of Latinas “full size” is imposed on the world media, and the great fashion designers create clothes designed exclusively for calls large sizes.
Obesity and self-esteem

Judging a woman by her appearance more than their values is an ingrained habit so common and one may think that their origins go back to the era in which humanity lived in caves. The ideal of feminine beauty was then obesity, which promised a large offspring and natural reserves sufficient to withstand the harsh life of our ancestors.

Obesity is a disease, as is the current model of beauty, which presents an image of women with a body forms, the sunken cheeks and an unhealthy pallor. Millions of adolescents and young people around the world are trying to approach this ideal that occurs in the Western world associated with the triumph, fame, elegance, power and happiness….

Anorexia and bulimia are the two most extreme sides of the problems experienced by millions of women in their quest to resemble the great icons of fashion and entertainment, and to achieve the promised success and happiness.

The image suggests that androgynous fashion has created a vast and profitable commercial network that touches numerous sectors of industry.

The miracle diets, weight loss pills, laxatives, food “light”, gyms and beauty centres are an insurance business, while cosmetic surgery gaining more adherents. In many cases, the woman who does not succeed, despite their efforts, manufactured approaching the ideal of beauty, loses self-esteem and security itself. The impossible aspiration to achieve a body of model can lead to unhappiness, and depression desarreglo food.
THE Full size girl defends their right to be

Defending the right to be fat is another step in the progress of women in society. There are women whose genes make them thin and others with a strong constitution, because all they see what they feel is a beauty look healthy.

The greatness of being obese “is a book written by Maritza Martinez. This Puerto Rican denounced the discrimination they face in all areas “great people” and says that “when I’m fat and I look in the mirror I see a woman beautiful.”

Beauty also emanating from the voluminous creations of Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, for whom “the volume is a very important element in painting.”

In “The myth of beauty”, the American writer Noami Wolf said at the beginning of the 90 that the proposed unattainable physical ideal society has serious implications for the physical and mental health of countless women and is a more to subjugate.

The model sizes are increasingly demanded. Follow in the footsteps of the pioneering, Emme Aronson, a New Yorker in which he defended the right gateway to obesity and today, its 45 years, stands out as a writer and designer clothes.
Muscle mass

Some clothing firms have highlighted in their campaigns the growing problem of anorexia. Other companies rejected their claims for advertising models too young or thin.

As part of efforts to prevent girls from becoming living skeletons, as the fashion catwalks of Cibeles in Madrid (Spain), or that of Milan (Italy)-whose motto is “not thinness equals beauty” — To reject the models whose body mass did not match his stature and age, as well as those under 18.

The calculation of body mass allows a person to know their nutritional status, and is obtained by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of height. It is considered healthy results between 18 and 25.

Claiming the right to be fat and proud of being is more difficult than it might seem. It seems that family, friends and social environment are allies to push women to devote much time, effort and money, not their health care, but to pursue an unattainable image.

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