"The New Beautiful"

The fascination with glamour skeletons/celebrity stick insects has prompted a so-called “backlash” and instead “curvaceous” (a politically correct/anatomically incorrect way to call people fat these days) celebrities are touted as The New Beautiful, yet appear on very few magazine covers. North America is still captivated and preferential to gawking at the sticks and bones. The more we tell our youth and our women that voluptuous is beautiful, the more it sounds like the old adage “true beauty is on the inside” - something usually reserved for “unattractive” people. It is heard as “fat is okay” but implicit in that statement is that you are fat. (But it’s okay, so don’t worry.) This often has the opposite and very much unintended effect. You’ll be more conscious of your fat and try to change.
The more we continue to talk about how dreadful the skelebrities are, the more unattainable their bodies are, the more we exoticize and continue to talk about them, the more it becomes something to aspire to for many women. Who wants to be part of the pitied “we still love you anyway” Fat Club? I don’t think there is enough of a backlash to label it as such. There has been little shift in mass public perception rof beautiful female celebrities.

So we hate our bodies and fanatically diet, exercise, and starve until we attain it.