Our Curves .... and The Men Who Love Them

 "Cultivate your curves, they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided”—Mae West

Racquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy, Kim Kardashian. Over the recent decades, these women and many more, have been represented in the media for the curves (or lack-of, in Twiggy’s case) dictated as sexy in the fashion of the day.

Marilyn Monroe

Ladies are we always concerned about our curves? Do we obsess over whether or not we have “too much”, or in some cases “not enough”? Who really dictates the standards by which you measure yourself? Since the beginning of time, or at least since I can remember; through art, fashion, and media women have been left to feel like they are “less than” if they don’t have the right facial features, hair, or body type.

When I grew up in the sixties the ideal image moved from the curves of Marilyn Monroe and Racquel Welch to the waifish stick-figure model “Twiggy”. Suddenly girls who were maturing and developing a shape were made to feel out-of-style if they had curvy hips or any shape other than straight-up-and-down. And with this expectation girls posed on themselves came many extreme diets and eating disorders.

Work in Progress...What's next?

CONSTRUCTION ZONE!

Yes! They say the only thing that is constant is change. If you have been following me for a while you have seen changes in my life and in the title and format of my blog site.

It is still my intention to promote choices that lead to a healthy lifestyle and an attitude that also provides happiness.