It’s been four days. Time for yet another reminder that skinny is good and fat is bad. I mean, I’ve written about a lot of it in the past few months. Anna Wintour’s comments about the people of Minnesota. Model Lara Stone vocalizing her worries over her size 4 body. The list goes on. Now, Kate Moss, the waif that started it all, is telling us some of her trademark motivational sayings. Among them, gems like this one: “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels.”
Instinctively, anger kicked in. Here we go again. Skinny, skinny, skinny! That’s all we ever hear about. Skinny, good! Fat, bad! But, the more I thought about it, this little slogan might actually do some good. As someone who has always struggled with her weight, I find it most difficult to visualize the future. It’s hard to focus on a goal that is six months down the road when there’s a Carl’s Jr. just around the corner. But over the past couple days, Moss’ seven little words have been running through my head. For someone like me, it’s not a bad motto to keep in mind when battling food cravings.
Still, in the grand scheme of things, this just contributes to the ever-growing pile of weight-obsessed images and ideas coming at women from all directions. But mostly from the fashion industry. Well, and pretty much all advertising. After all, it’s not “skinny” that girls should be chasing, but “healthy.” And it could be assumed that this motto is what turned Kate into a waif in the first place. So, it’s a dangerous line.
Nonetheless, I do want to know what skinny feels like. It’s just hard to deny the taste of a good cheeseburger.
or the taste of really good dark chocolate…
Here, I got a better one for you: “Nothing Looks as Good as Healthy Feels”