MzSerena’s Garden

This is a post where-in I pontificate about body image. Yeah, I do that from time to time. I’m a thinker, at best. Everywhere you look, you see beautiful women who can wear just about everything ever made. This makes me sad, really, because the size of the average women in the real world is much larger than it used to be.

If you think about it, plus sized women are quickly becoming the majority rather than the minority. But, there is also this giant problem with body image that makes women see themselves as something they aren’t. We see what we want to see in the mirror, we don’t see what others want to see.

For instance, I am a large woman. I do not deny that. For years, however, I was blind to the fact that I had gained over 100 lbs. I saw and felt that I was the same girl I was when I was in college. I was stunned the first time I stepped on the doctor’s scale and nearly cried when I left because I honestly had not realized how bad it was. I have since lost an undetermined amount of weight since they had my weight completely screwed up when they went from the old fashioned scale to the new digital scale. They tried to tell me that I had regained the weight I had lost, plus an extra 20 in the course of 3 months. We all know this didn’t happen, since in that 3 month period, I put on a pair of jeans that I hadn’t fit into in 2 years because they were way too small.

The thing is, there are a lot of women who have just the opposite problem and see themselves as being larger than they are. For instance, I know of someone who had WLS and is able to wear nearly anything now, but she was looking at some of the hottest corsets I’ve ever seen and was upset because she feels that they wouldn’t look good on her. It’s sad, really, because she could wear a potato sack and look good in it.

There needs to be something done about body image, but what can we do? I really have no idea, but I’m open to suggestions.

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