Let’s be average

Just yesterday I saw this posting on Facebook. The story goes:

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?”

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

“Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I’d rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn’t enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: “How amazing am I ?! “

The story was accompanied by a photo of French model Tara Lynn (who is also in the second photo below).

I agree that the gym sign (if it ever actually existed) is in poor taste, but I think we’re going overboard here.

On one side we have the painfully, often anorexically, thin models and on the other we have the “plus-size” models who, I guess, are supposed to make us feel good about ourselves even if we’re smack-dab in the middle of the obese category.

Whatever happened to the average women? Why do I have to choose between this:

And this?

Why do we have to go from a size 0 to a size 20? (I don’t know that this model wears a size 20, I’m just throwing a number out there).

While anorexia is a problem, obesity is the far greater problem and both are indicative of a serious problem with food.

In my opinion, neither one is attractive or sexy. Say what you will, but rolls and rolls of fat are not attractive and neither are skeletons.

So, all hail the average woman. She may have a paunchy stomach or big hips, or maybe she’s got a little extra flesh on her thighs, but she’s not a caricature of a woman, she’s the real thing.

And while I know it will never happen, just once I’d like to see a fashion show with a woman who wears a size 8 or 10.

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