Comments on: Body Image

By: Jaime

Jaime — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:44:54 +0000

This is what real women look like. It is not natural for women to be naturally stick thin in my opinion. Women were put on this earth to bear children, not that every woman must have children, but I believe that having a full figure is how we were meant to be. I have had two children and while I am not having a love affair with my belly bulge, I am not ashamed of my size or weight. Marylin has always been an idol of mine for being considered on of the most sexy women to have ever lived despite her size.

By: missy @ its almost naptime

missy @ its almost naptime — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:53:45 +0000

And she never even gave birth.

Thanks, Jo. I have gained so much weight in the last year that my mornings in my closet are middle school flashbacks. This was exactly what I needed to see.

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:55:28 +0000

I saw this picture on another website and she compared Monroe to a current model and wow…what a difference. You are right that she would be ridiculed by today’s standards for her weight, yet she was much admired by her curves back then. I miss those days! and feel sad for our daughters who must live to such horrible standards that the media place upon them nowadays.

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:03:33 +0000

Women have struggled with body image for a long time. Someone had it right up there in one of the comments that said that MM was objectified.

Even though she was actually very intelligent and an extremely talented actress, she is reduced to the sexy blond bombshell singing to the President and the titillating image of the blowing skirt revealing her legs. It was this sexualization and objectification that Feminism fought AGAINST. Yes, I agree that we do it to ourselves – or we let it be done to ourselves – but we can thank Feminism for allowing me to be an architect, for my friend to be a doctor etc. beyond our body parts.

Our hearts are sinful and so the problems will continue. Whether thin or curvy, we can have a poor image of ourselves and men can objectify us. And yes, we can be hardest on each other.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:05:40 +0000

WOW… I just emailed this to several friends, and we have made a pact to embrace our inner Marilyn… thank you for this!

By: Nichole

Nichole — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:02:53 +0000

It is so funny that you shared this picture and this insight, not more than a week ago my 6th period class of 8th graders spurned a two day continuous conversation about body image. They were finishing up a unit on bullying; some were reading the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, in the book the main character talks about having a size 10 pair of jeans. One of my male students didn’t have a point of reference so he asked a girl sitting in front of him, “Is a size ten big?” The girl responded that a size 10 is fat. He proceeded to fill out a character trait sheet circling the word fat. I had this pivotal “teachable” moment where I was trying to get them to rethink the idea of “what is healthy?” The next day I came back to that same class and continued the conversation, and this time brought in the idea of Marilyn Monroe. The girl that said a size ten was fat has posters in her room of Marilyn. Needless to say I think this photo would be brilliant to share with my kids tomorrow, yet again to remind them of our talk. The kids these days with their skinny jeans don’t understand that just because they are literally squeezing their way into a size 3 doesn’t make them an actual size 3!

By: april

april — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:39:51 +0000

HAD to link to this on my blog! Bravo for posting it!
http://gardenqueen.blogspot.com/2010/05/out-of-whack-body-image.html

By: april

april — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:31:13 +0000

It’s especially ironic when you look at a Victoria’s Secret swimsuit or bra catalog! Good grief! They have GIGANTIC boobs popping out at you with their each ripple of their ribs evident. So…apparently they DON’T eat and all have plastic surgery. I love this photo of Marilyn, yet it saddens me that our culture expects us to look anorexic with DDs.

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By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:12:12 +0000

Yeah it’s really sad that our society has gone from a healthy perception of what’s “sexy” to a very unhealthy one. I’m a high school teacher and I’ve sat in class numerous days listening to my girls agonize about how hard it is to feel ok about the size they are if they don’t look like the girls in the magazines (stick thin). It’s really sad. I desperately want them to be ok with who God made them to be and stop searching for that in the media and it’s really hard. To add to that I just found out we’re having a little girl beauty pageant in our community. I was not exactly happy about it. But you just hope that women keep pouring into young girls to help them reach a healthy mentality and that healthy moms keep teaching their daughters to look to Christ for their identity. Thanks for writing about this.