That was a very provocative essay. I hadn't thought about the Western obsession with waif-like women to be a kind of veiling. Certainly age can be. I remember my mother saying sadly when she was around 55-60 that she felt invisible to the people who walked past; before, they might have smiled, since she smiles at everybody, but suddenly, they didn't anymore; they just *didn't* see her. How sad.
As someone who was born bigger than a size 6 (g), I have never been able, as an adult, to understand the attitude. As a teenager, I suffered greatly because my hip bones were so big that a thinner waist and top seemed to me to make me look like a pear, so I didn't look like the models in Seventeen. When I grew older, I realized that I didn't care about looking famished; in fact, I looked better when I weighed more because I was balanced. All of this was, of course, nothing more than a *self* image. Probably no one else even noticed!
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As someone who was born bigger than a size 6 (g), I have never been able, as an adult, to understand the attitude. As a teenager, I suffered greatly because my hip bones were so big that a thinner waist and top seemed to me to make me look like a pear, so I didn't look like the models in Seventeen. When I grew older, I realized that I didn't care about looking famished; in fact, I looked better when I weighed more because I was balanced. All of this was, of course, nothing more than a *self* image. Probably no one else even noticed!
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