A Diet of Leaves and Water

May 3, 2007

I'm a very self-conscious person and if there's one thing I am very self-conscious about, it is my weight. The gods can hurl the seven plagues at me and the President can declare an absolute dictatorship over this country as long as I don't get fat during the above-mentioned shenanigans. Tears form at the corners of my properly lined and painted eyes whenever I think about it. In fact I'm ruining my make-up job about, oh i dunno, now.

 

Okay seriously. Half of the reason why I don't want to get fat is all that blah about self-image and self-esteem and society's pressure as mentioned already below. I mean come on bones are in nowadays. Thin women get worshiped like the underfed goddesses that they are. Sure they have fat, but only in all the right places—in the buttocks, in the bosom, in their anorexic imaginations. Even fashion revolves around thin people. Look at the skinny jeans and short shorts that are all the rage nowadays. Can fat people pull them off? They wish! I wish.

 
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