The fashion and film industries also changed, and women of size became regularly featured in magazines, television, and movies. Models and movie stars are skinnier than ever. I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big. What's sad is that there literally ARE women and girls who are killing themselves because of a perceived weight problem.
Weight is an issue that dominates women's lives.
It keeps them from living their dreams. Just last week Joy asked if she could see a therapist about her low self-image. This is a girl, by the way, who has a beautiful figure. But this is the age of Ally McBeal and Lara Flynn Boyle, and women with curves are out. We can love our bodies as they are and teach our daughters to love theirs.