Curse Barbie!!! It is reassuring to know that if a real woman had her proportions, she would have had to have ribs removed to get that waist, she wouldn't be fat enough to mensturate, and she wouldn't be able to stand up with that bust to support

It is sad that media equates thinness and beauty. I know there is a connection sometimes between self-esteem and weight issues, and low self esteem makes it hard to motivate yourself to look your best. But I have seen overweight people look fantastic - Kathy Bates, Aretha Franklin, my aunt - and they're just as beautiful (often more beautiful) as the thin people plastered all over magazines. The difference is, the stick-figures on magazines have often been airbrushed to within an inch of becoming an illustration whereas the beauty in real-life larger people is real

We should start a large person's magazine, Cameron Manheim can be our first covergirl!!!

Katt