And none for Gretchen Wieners.

So I just watched Mean Girls again for like the 30th time. And it just got be thinking about beauty. Or what is perceived as beautiful. Take for instance, Lindsey Lohan. I think she looks amazing in that movie and why? Cause when shes dancing to jingle bell rock in the outfit, her shirt lifts up and you can see, to be frank, a bit of a belly. A bit. Not a flat stomach, a small belly. It looks sexy. She has curves in this movie but for some reason, she started losing weight, i have no idea why. But she doesn't look good. No girl looks good when you can see bones protruding out at odd angles.

Magazines like Teen Vogue make me laugh about how they had articles about anorexia, but look at the images of girls they show. Stick thin models. How are young impressionable girls meant to feel when they see these images, pretty much in any womens/girls magazine. That this is normal? This is beauty? It's quite sickening really.

In victorian times if you were large it was a sign of wealth. Big hips were a sign of child bearing. If you were skinny you were too poor. And now it's the opposite. If someone is overweight, most newspapers will say the cause of this is cheap junk food and poor education about diet.

But you'll find that there is no law making fruit and vegetables free to all schools, or gym memberships made compulsory to obese people seeking medical help. Instead surgery is used. I think it's called a gastric bypass, where they make your intestines or stomach smaller, so you can't eat as much. Some people get liposuction. These methods are just final straws really. The last resort. When really, we should be preventing this in the first place.

I'm not saying being over-weight and ugly are the same. But there is a line between being naturally large and being unhealthy. If that makes sense. Let's say Marilyn Monroe. She was a size 16 and deemed one of the most beautiful women ever, and she was probably healthy.

I guess i'm trying to say is, what is beauty? I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That ridiculously skinny girls that obviously aren't naturally that skinny need to stop obsessing over there weight and just be happy, eat what they like, in moderation. That the media needs to stop obsessing over looks, headling likes so and so is out wearing something stupid? Who cares why they were wearing whatever. They were going to a shop for christs sake. Why do celebrities have to look good on every occasion. What sort of role model looks perfect all the time? An unrealistic one.

Saying all this i hate how i look. I hate my legs the most, they are not overly huge i know, that could just not move so much when i walk and stuff. On my best day i'm okay with my general appearance. Perhaps if i didn't watch too much tv etc that i wouldn't think my legs would look better skinnier, and that i'd just accept them. Goes to show really. Everyone has insecurities.

I apologize this ramble.