This is a story about a woman named Victoria. Victoria has a secret. Actually she has a lot of secrets and I’m not a fan of any of them. Victoria likes to get together with all of her friends and have sleepovers. And during their sleepovers, they wear naughty nighties and have pillow fights. Because that’s what girls do when…
I’m on a podcast tonight called The Bean Cast (I’ll write more about that later) and in prepping for it, I was reminded of two insane occurrences that happened in the ad and retail world this past week that are different but exactly the same in some ways. I’m speaking of Walmart and Victoria’s Secret and their perception of body images,…
Mackenzie turned me onto this tune this summer and I LOVE it more than words can say. It’s been called the positive body image theme of the Summer and I might go as far as to say the year. If you haven’t heard it, take a few minutes and enjoy Meghan Trainor. It’ll be the best part of your day,…
This post has been in my head for a few months now. Thanks to Bren over at My Girly Parts for reminding me to get it out. What size do you consider to be “average” when it comes to women? 4? 6? 10? 12? 14? First, let’s look at the definition of “average” according to Wikipedia: av·er·age /ˈav(ə)rij/ Noun The…
It’s that time of the year when everyone is abuzz with New Year’s resolutions. They range from lose weight, exercise more, get healthy and a million others in between. I’m not against resolutions but what I do hate to see is an unrealistic attitude and approach on the losing weight one and the biggest offenders are women. Men look at…
Did you see this article? I saw it late last night and LOVED it. Even posted it to my Facebook page. In the spread, size 12 model Katya Zharkova poses nude next to a “straight size” model to show the differences between them. I loved it… thought it was a beautiful spread, truer words were never spoken. Then one of my…