Comments for The Curvy Life

Comment on Project Runway: Drag Queens v. Big Girls by allison carter

allison carter — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:41:47 +0000

I also didn’t hear any of the wo-men saying boo about body image. Not once did anyone comment on fat or thin or anything. They have learned to love themselves as they are.

Comment on Project Runway: Drag Queens v. Big Girls by hope505

hope505 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:39:58 +0000

I know what would make styling the “faux big girls” lots easier - put them in pants, where they belong, and tell them to stop trying to look like women. Any woman. but especially cher, madonna, marilyn monroe, or janet jackson.

It’s easier to ’style’ them because a transvestite doesn’t expect to be taken seriously, nor should they be.

Comment on Wii Fit bad for body image? BMI strikes again by Chinese Olympic competitors and their age? « City of Skeptics

Chinese Olympic competitors and their age? « City of Skeptics — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:59:13 +0000

[...] Now BMI can’t really be used for kids and the Nintendi Wii Fit has caused a few issues, for example here, because it uses BMI as a measure of [...]

Comment on Body Love Art - Bell Pine Art Farm by Kim

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:50:24 +0000

I love this blog! You post such interesting and inspiring things! Keeping in line with Belly Wisdom, have you ever read Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes? You may have posted about it somewhere else and if I missed it I apologize but its a fantastic book, AND it has a whole chapter on similar belly wisdom, and loving your curves. Just thought you or your other blog readers may be interested. Keep it curvy!

Kim

Comment on Project Runway: Drag Queens v. Big Girls by Dan

Dan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:21:43 +0000

Thats a really interesting point. I guess its ‘cool’ to design for drag queens because your supposed to go over the top glamourous and so your not supposed to make a dress that a normal person could walk down the road in. But I guess they find designing for big woman less glamorous. So it boils down to fat been seen as unglamourous again. So fashion designers throw big hissy fits. Anyway thats my take.

Comment on Curvy me in a bikini - do I dare? by Missy

Missy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:49:23 +0000

you look SO beautiful!!!!! you are such an inspiration!
Now I need to get myself in one of those lol

Comment on Cute workout clothes sizes 0-20 - Athleta.com by allison carter

allison carter — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:15:37 +0000

believe it or not, I found cutie exercise skorts this summer at Malwart.

Comment on The Brits Really Get It, or the UK is leading the Curvy Revolution by Kiki

Kiki — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:49:39 +0000

Kate Dillon is not plus sized. She is a height/weight proportionate woman who looks like she might even be on the light side of the chart.
I am a plus size - I wear a US size 20 top and US size 16 bottom. I am 5′6″inches tall (or 1.65m) and weigh 230 lbs (or 16.43 stones). I have never fallen victim to the “thin is in” mentality. I have always embraced my curves and I stand tall, proud and confident. I do not read beauty magazines, I do not compare myself to movie stars or supermodels. I judge my health on how I physically feel and not on fashion numbers. I am who and what I am.
At one point in time, I lost a lot of weight because my misinformed doctor thought it would be healthier for me to adhere to the height/weight charts. He believed all my pain I was experiencing was due to my weight and not because of the fused vertebra in my back from an auto accident that misaligned my skeleton- which he never even bothered to find. I finally got a 2nd opinion and that doctor actually said that the former doctor should be banned from practicing for his idiocy. Apparently, my former doctor was one of those idiots who thinks that weight is the source of all medical problems and fails to look for other sources. It’s an easy diagnosis for someone who doesn’t really know what they are doing and are too lazy or stupid to find out the real source.
Anyway, I lost a lot of weight (not easy with all the pain I was in!) and got down to a size 14 on top and a size 4 on the bottom at my skinniest and 118 lbs. (I tend to be very busty no matter what size I am.) I found that the thin me attracted stupid, self-centered, superficial men who were trying to find an external accessory that they thought might give them more status among their peers - like a rolex or a bmw- rather than a real partner. These men treated me like a possession and not a person. They actually didn’t want me to be smart!
I am much bigger now (almost twice my former size!) and more comfortable with myself and I constantly have strangers coming up to me and telling me how lovely I am.
Many of the men who like me curvy said that what attracted them to me was that I was fun, smart, caring, pretty but I didn’t obsess about my physical appearance - I seemed comfortable with myself which made them more comfortable with themselves.
I have always attracted men no matter what my size - the fun, smart ones like me curvy.
Thankfully, those are the men I’m attracted to also. I feel very fortunate to have discovered that instead of following fashion magazines and their superficial advise.
Fashion mags are rags and not worth the paper they are printed on as well as fashionistas who think that wire thin women hangers are attractive. Who are these warped people and why do women listen to them?

Comment on Does Olympic swimmer Dara Torres make you feel bad about your body? by FatFighter

FatFighter — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:05:11 +0000

Both of these women are amazing in their own way and definitely give me inspiration. They make you realize anything is possible if you put your mind to it. I agree - we can celebrate them without feeling bad about our own bodies.

Comment on Hips & Curves - Sexy curvy lingerie by Dan

Dan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:51:38 +0000

She does look great!