Comments on: Too Skinny

By: Carla

Carla — Sun, 22 May 2011 08:15:55 +0000

Hie im also 5’2 and weight 105 yeah im skinny but ive always been like this i eat everything and anything and i have 2 kids and have not gain weight. This is how i am and how my body is. People might think im too skinny but i dont care if this is how god made me than its perfect. I dont think it matters as long as ur healthy n proud of ur self.

By: skinny ginny

skinny ginny — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:08:33 +0000

Really guys? I am 20 years old, 5’2″ and 106 lbs. My doctor says I am healthy, despite my small frame. I eat normally, and I (truthfully) don’t exercise as much as I should, and I struggled with crippling self esteem issues throughout high school. Too skinny. I understand that the media is, in part, an aggravating force for young womens’ body images. But this is not just a size issue. If you don’t have clear skin, high cheekbones, pretty hair, you aren’t beautiful. If you don’t have big eyes, nice tits, long legs you aren’t beautiful.
This photo
(http://zeldalily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ideal-women-sizes-297×300.jpg)
Is meant to show off the reality of what the average woman is, what men want, and what women want. I am smaller than all three of these. When I first saw this image, I cried. I have had size A breasts and visible ribs my entire life. Every time an article like this would pop up, talking about how disgusting the thin models were, and how skeletal and unnatural their frames are, I would feel worse and worse with every word. Guys want a curvy girl. No one should look like this naturally. Please please, view every body with respect. Don’t find one type that you can trash on to make yourself feel better.

By: littlem

littlem — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:11:19 +0000

Neilotchka, bb – I really enjoy your blog, but I’m looking over the grammarless rantings of some of your, um, frothier commenters here, and wondering if perhaps, by Your Bloggerness, some screening might well be in order?

By: frank

frank — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:16:40 +0000

Mostt of these posts are by idiots. To say the plus size models has rolls is ridiculous. Someone said she is airbrushed, but what her skin? So what if she is? She represents more of a healthy beautiful ideal than those other skinny tarts. Its sad at how peoples perception of fat is and how messed up our perception of real womans body has become. I don’t know any straight man who would want those bony bitches!

By: Stephanie F.

Stephanie F. — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:29:00 +0000

I can’t believe your skinny friend would even think like that, let alone tell you that! Some men might not want a big woman but I know for sure that a LOT of men do not like rail-thin women. That’s interesting about the flat-chested part. I know most guys like boobs – fortunately for me, my hubby is a butt man! I definitely have a butt, but no boobs LOL. He loves me just the way I am, but I’d love to lose a few lbs….I’m 5’4″ and weigh 140. So 125 or 130 would be good. Anyways, don’t let that get you down at all, (about the men liking your skinny flatchested friend)…..and really, we shouldn’t hate skinny girls and say they suck – but I’ll tell ya what I do hate: when a real thin chick says “I gained 2 lbs, I need to diet and get rid of it” – I want to slap them because they ARE ALREADY THIN and they have the nerve to say stuff like that! That irks me….
Oh and I grew up in Reno – just down the mountain from Tahoe. Are you in the casino biz by chance?
Have a nice day! Steph F.

By: Stephanie F.

Stephanie F. — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:22:50 +0000

Wow….first, how old are you? And next, how tall are you? I’m 5’3″ (and a half, I’m almost 5’4″) and I’ve been told by my doctor that I’m supposed to weigh anywhere between 115 and 145. That’s a huge difference! I weigh 140 now and I’m not terribly overweight, but I could stand to lose about 15 lbs. I am very comfortable at 125.
About 6 yrs ago I weighed 115, but that was too small for me. My butt disappeared. But that was too small…..
What I wanted to tell you is you won’t lose weight by skipping meals. You have to eat. I would just eat about 5 small meals during the day. Small portions. But always have a good breakfast.
That’s what I did, ate less, but still ate foods I liked – I just didn’t overdo it. And I used dumbbells in my living room for about 20-25 minutes a few times a week, and I lost weight – 17 lbs in about 2 1/2 months! Then I joined a gym to tone up and I couldn’t believe how fast I got toned! All I did was do about 15 minutes on the treadmill and then about 20 minutes w/ weights. Not heavy weights, just light weights with lots of reps. That will tone you up. Men are always lifting really heavy weights and not so many reps so they can bulk up. But light weights with a lot of reps is perfect for women. And I only went 3 days a week! So you can lose weight the right way – I promise. It sounds like you might be a teenager – so let me just tell you, that’s a GREAT time to get your body into shape. The younger you are, the easier it is! I’m 41 now and I really have to make an effort to lose weight. It’s hard for me to get motivated to actually exercise. But I know if I would just do it, it wouldn’t take long to lose my 10-15 lbs.
Sorry I wrote a long novel – I just wanted to tell you to not skip meals and actually give you a little pep talk! I hope I helped a little. Just remember if you’re in your teens or early 20′s – and you only weigh 150, losing weight should be pretty easy for you.
Take care,
Steph Fayard
http://www.facebook.com/stephfayard

By: Stephanie F.

Stephanie F. — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:10:48 +0000

First of all, that plus-sized model does NOT have fat rolls. She may be a little overweight but it is by far, not gross or disgusting at all. And it’s not feeding what you called “the fat frenzy”. I do realize that obesity is getting out of hand here in America, but there is also the problem of women practically killing themselves to get super skinny. It’s not only very unflattering (to have the skinny body of a little girl) but it’s very unhealthy too. I can’t believe that the ‘fashion world’ wants to put anorexic looking women on the runways.
Women have been brain-washed by pop culture, the media, etc – to want to be ultra skinny – so people like that plus-size model are doing a great thing by showing that women can be beautiful without being rail-thin.
And why in the world would you tell someone to go kill themselves? Someone just expressed their opinion which we all are entitled to, and because you don’t agree with what she said, you’re gonna tell them “you should go kill yourself”?
You obviously need to get some kind of life and learn how to be a more compassionate person. You must have a lot of hate in you to say stuff like you did.
And one last thing, if you’re going to reply to someone and say ugly things to them, or even to say anything at all, you should probably try and use your spell-check feature to edit any mistakes. And what happened to proper grammar? You used what…? 2 periods in that whole paragraph. WOW. That is not going to make you look intelligent at all.

By: Um...

Um... — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:41:09 +0000

I agree with a lot of the people who have posted before. They could have made it fairer by putting up a normal fat person instead of an airbrushed model. These aren’t very good choices, because neither are completely healthy. One picture is overweight and the other one has sickly-looking people.
I also understand that not all skinny people are horrible becasue some people are born that way. My sister wasn’t even two pounds when she was born and i was almost nine. Some of us are too young to do any serious weightloss things and our genetics make diet and exercise even less useful. I know I’m fat. I weigh 150 pounds, and i have gone for days without eating or eating more than one meal a day because of the damned media, models, people like some of those on this post who are so against fat people. There’s a lot of pressure put on everyone to be the perfect size 4-8 where you won’t impale someone if you hug them or have them bounce off. I personally don’t have anything against skinny or fat people, but gorgeous people who starve themselves or turn themselves into cows.

By: sweetcherry

sweetcherry — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:47:00 +0000

this article is insluting whoever posted this strongly urge you to kill yourself i almost pucked when i saw those pics no bones no rolls that my rule for beauty that plus size model is just feding the fat frenzy by forcing everyone to have massive folds like her but aneroxic is really bad to noone should have to starve themsleves to be beautiful.fit hand healthy is beautiful fat rolls and visible bones are not. but they would not have eating disorders if it was’ent people like you so kill yourslefs for th greater good and if any of you butthut men are piss off about my rant because you favor obese ugly whores who diss pretty slim girls you will never have girls because your are to ugly then go kill yourselfs as well later

By: popsugar

popsugar — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:10:55 +0000

this is just another bashing slim people.who are all of you to judje on what a women should be. this article is done to embrace obesity. anorixa and obesity are both unhealthy