I received an email from Bella Cucina and I saved it, thinking, “That’s just lovely. I should tuck it away for inspiration.” Before I could share it with anyone I got another email from them and oh-my-holy-fucking-jutting-sternum!
This is the best they could come up with to proffer gourmet goods through my monitor? I’m not sure how she’s managing to hold the platter up, or strike that, how she can hold herself up. I suppose in its intended context, the gnarly bones poking through her paper thinskin echo the swirls of the pretty embellishment at the top of the email, but still, not what I want to see first thing.
Then again, I suppose if women in Hollywood are looking like this, it makes sense they’d think the way to push food is through identityless breasts on bones.
And this is exactly why raising girls in this culture is so hard. This is what the media feeds them. And as much as we try to buffer it all, we are only capable of so much. We may be able to keep it out of our homes, but there's school, and the mall, and all the other pre-teen hangouts.
Oh how I dread the body image issues and cruel cliquish girls who gawk from the "popular" lunch tables characteristic of the pre-teen years to come. There's a good play about this subject…"I Read About My Death in Vogue Magazine," by Lydia Sargent. Also, lots of plays by Joyce Carol Oates address this topic. Just FYI.
oof.
Okay. Eww. Just ew-w-w.
That's so distracting. I've also noticed the tendency for woman to just get thinner and thinner as they get older as if that looked healthy and youthful. It doesn't.
Yeah, that's so hot. Nothing says "sexy" like being able to cut people with your bones.
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Both of these pictures are so disturbing that I don't even know what to say. It's sad. Very, very sad.
Nothing says real like, fake boobs, a starved, emaciated body, skin so tan it looks like burnt toast, and hair fried to a crisp and called "Blond" The only thing real in this picture is the anguish in her eyes. I'll take my slightly soft, but strong healthy and nourished body any day.
Just what a man wants. To be covered with bruises after a night of love.
Uck.
Oh, and like anybody would think *those* are real.
I hope the world wises up before more of our daughters start dying. Amanda, thank goodness there are intelligent women like you raising daughters.
Ewwwww…. what happened to Tara Reid?????? That's disturbing.
Having been a very thin person for most of my adult life I find that my forties have changed me in ways that make me long for my old body. I know I look fine the way I am, but…I do miss being able to eat without guilt.
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THAT'S Tara Reid? All I can say is, that is very, very sad. Oh so sad. (On a different note…thanks for checking out my blog! Ice storm pics are pretty..just amazing the damage!)
Damn. That woman is too thin. Not attractive.
Yuck.
omg…my eyes…I can't see!
yes, scary, scary, scary
wow…that just isn't appetizing!
it's really sad how much pressure society puts on girls and woman to look "perfect"…i myself have been affected by this pressure since i was a teenage girl. not that there was anything wrong with me, but being a 5'10" girl, i weighted more and wore larger sizes than what i thought was "acceptable". sad.
looking back on it, i'm not sure how i survived losing my hair that the young age of 22…
And just when you think Tara Reid is cleaning up her act…
I do think it's funny that the Bella Cucina skeleton is holding up a massive, two person platter of ravioli, as if she's going to eat it or something.
That woman in the bikini looks like she's been held hostage in a tanning booth for 30 days. That's the picture taken upon her release from UVA prison, all blinking, dazed emaciation.
Oh wow… That is so disturbing. That, to me, is just as unpleasant to look at (and Just as unhealthy!) as someone who is morbidly obese. Just seems we need a dose of moderation here… not one extreme or another.
If were holding that plate of food there would be NO DOUBT that I was eating it ALL 🙂