I HATE my . . .
Did you hear the echo of women everywhere responding with the speed of light?
Fat legs, flabby stomach, beaky nose, round eyes, thin lips, bulgy cheeks, flat breasts and on and on.
Last night I was indulging in trashy television, which I allow myself to do when my daughter isn’t home to witness it. I flipped to Dr. 90210, the reality show on E where plastic surgery patients explain what they hate about themselves and how they intend to fix it through plastic surgery.
What’s interesting to me is that most of these women are …read more

This is an apt description of the body image issues women face. I worry about my daughter, but I also know the devastating effect this type of media onslaught has on the grown women I know. We reduce women to things. Are you a pretty thing or an ugly thing?
Guess what? We’re not things. We’re people. We think, we feel, we nurture the young and care for the sick. We are women and to allow the entire marketing industry to turn us into things has to stop somehow. Why do you think men think it’s okay to use us up? …read more

I missed my face.
My reflection is how I identify with my self.
It’s mysterious to me how I could look in the mirror every day, putting on make up, fixing my hair, or brushing my teeth and then be totally shocked when I saw a photo of myself. I was fat and didn’t see it. The power of denial about my weight issue confounded me for quite some time. I would see what I expected to see in the mirror, a memory of me, disregarding the number on my pants telling me there was an ever increasing problem.
Since losing 20-25 pounds I’m …read more

What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing! Except the message of the Brazilian advertiser for fat free yogurt.
The message is that you should eat fat free yogurt so that you don’t look like this fat woman.
I think this woman is hot. I think she’s sexy. I’m a huge advocate of Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty method of making me feel okay about myself. I’m very against advertising that motivates people to buy products because they feel bad about themselves. 
Advertising like this is anti-woman. Don’t expect me to eat your product if the message of your advertising is that I’m not allowed to …read more

Holy Pregnancy Mask Batman! Even with an SPF 50 sunscreen, plus the SPF 30 moisturizer I wear I look like a freaking spotted leopard. Or maybe like Kat Von D from Miami Ink, only my spots do not have intention and beauty behind them.
I usually don’t consider myself at all vain. I think I’m attractive and I have a positive self esteem about my looks. I’m one of the few women I know who would not choose plastic surgery because I don’t particularly hate anything about myself. My boobs have held up nicely, I don’t have terrible stretch marks, I’m just fine with …read more

Wow, Rosie quit after the argument I guess. I would have written about it before, but I didn’t hear about it until I had gone for my Memorial Day weekend away (I time stamped my blogs, just as they prerecorded The View. But, I’m back now.)
I guess they have prerecorded two weeks of The View, which is a little odd as I watch Rosie and Elisabeth celebrate Elisabeth’s 30th birthday.
I’m disappointed Rosie left. I don’t really know what to think about it. I checked out the Q&A on Rosie.com and she’s basically saying she felt that the producers created the blow …read more