let's not celebrate bad health

NOT trying to be rude, but I'm pretty sure that, especially when it comes to women, being around 300 pounds can NOT be healthy. What is she 8 feet tall?
Also, the only problem that I have with this movie (I have never seen it) is the title.
REAL WOMEN have curves.
So am I not a real woman?
I am 21 years old and my metabolism has surely not caught up with me yet. As a young girl I could eat an entire medium pizza from dominos and sleep it off at night. I usually ate 4 bean burritos in one Taco Bell sitting. Yet I had chicken legs and arms and was an excellent cross country runner. I'm not bragging here. I have grown up to be 5-7 and 125. Unfortunately, I was not born with the hips gene, and my metabolism is still at a rate faster than most. I've been asked if I was anorexic ever since I can remember and at state cross country in 8th grade, an upperclassmen teammate told me I was "disgustingly skinny" in my swimsuit. I've never experienced the pain of being called a "fat ass" or anything equally rude to say to someone overweight, but being called disgustingly skinny probably hurts just as much. Its saying you are just that - disgusting.
I have had a problem with my weight for years, although I am healthy, I am skinny (although I much prefer the term thin) I sometimes can feel "disgusting" because people tell me I need to eat or "put some meat on my bones". Ignorantly thinking that I starve myself or work real hard so I can be this skinny. Senior year of high school my goal was to put on weight and get to 130, but that never happened even though I tried. Junior year my track season was pretty rough in my 800 race, I usually dominated the field at the meets in my area, but that year my times dropped significantly (don't worry, senior year was my best ever) and I found out later that runners from other schools blamed my poor times on the fact that I was sick from being anorexic, a friend/runner from another school told me about the gossip.
Not only curvy girls are REAL WOMEN. A real woman is a woman who can embrace her sexuality and body in a positive light and enjoy being a woman. Lately I have started to feel better about the fact that I am skinny with small hips, because I'm not a little girl living in the cruel world of high school anymore. because I've grown a better sense and start seeing the beauty of my body, like my long legs and the little bubbleness of my butt.
While I can understand that was people said, in the movie it focuses on more than just the weight of the woman, the title makes me feel like I should be ashamed of the fact that I am "skinny". Like I should not feel like a real woman because I don't stuff my face until I see an extra chin start to appear. I'm not sorry that society focuses on the Hollywood types because they have fantastic bodies and beautiful faces. Society will also critisize the women in Hollywood nonstop to try and make up for the pedestal they put them on in the first place by making them the "ideal" women and name them "Sexiest Women in the World" Make up you friggen minds already. For just as many sites and blogs there are about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson being gorgeous bodied beings, there are just as many of them saying they are "too skinny" and "need to eat"
Not all the "beautiful women" of Hollywood are super skinny, and you must realize that many of them are very short/petite. Jen Aniston is only 5 foot 5. Britney Spears 5-4.) And even Britney Spears never had a stick thin body, I've always thought that when Britney was in her prime she had an amazing body and never saw her as being too skinny. (don't say she was because of the baby one more time video, she was 16 then. she was just a kid, in her next video she was noticeably thicker) Elizabeth Hurley, Charlize Theron, Drew Barrymore. These women have never been nor looked "too skinny". Don't say they are too skinny just because they have flat abs rather than a little extra pudge around their midsection.
A real woman doesn't criticize other women for what they look like, weigh or how they live their lives. Unless you know their entire body history, their day by day food intake as well as work out regimin. Unless you know what the cells inside their body do or the genes that run in their family, don't drag them down because they look thinner than you and you feel society has made you ashamed of your larger body.


"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room."
"You jump, I jump, right?"

"Poor diet and bad health are not the problem. Genetics are the problem."

Are you serious?! Were there as many overweight people in the world before fast food was introduced? That is such a complete cop-out! Yes, some people gain weight more easily than others due to genetics, but it's not 100% genetics. Even with someone who has a slow metabolism, lifestyle and diet come into the equation. The only people who can not help their weight are people with Prada Willies.

Ana, in my opinion, is not fat. But the other women (there's a couple of them I think) that strip off are! 1 in particular that I remember is OBESE. In no way is being overweight or obese healthy and anyone who says it is has no idea what they're talking about. Being overweight (or underweight) isn't healthy.. no matter what you try and tell yourself!

And talking about double standards, why is it ok to tell a skinny person to "eat a sandwich" but not a fat person to "put down the burger"?

Moisture is the essence of wetness... & wetness is the essence of beauty.

When Cameron Diaz first appeared in the Mask, she was all roundy and amazing-looking. She has since, lost tonnes of weight losing the freshness on her face and skin. I think her weight now is not her natural weight, but a forced-on image.

Drew Barrimore has always been fuller than the rest of her peers as has Kate Winslet, and they look healthy, with a certain glow skinny girls just lack. Salma Hayek falls in this category too.

The recent concerns about Knightley´s weight(she is naturally thin, but now she looks ill) and so many other celebrities(Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Calista Flockhart, Portia de Rossi) is just incredibly worrying.

I have seen girls as young as 8 already obsessed with their weight when they should be concerned about being a child and enjoying life.

Nicole Kidman, Renée Z, Kate Bosworth ... they all look painfully thin and unhealthy. I don´t mean you have to weigh 200 kg, but there is a thin line between thin and sickly thin.

The other day on MTV I heard a 20-year-old guy claiming his ideal girl had to be "skinny" .... very scary ...

To the person who thought that the movie excluded skinny women- I am pretty sure that the title "Real Women Have Curves" refers to the fact that women aren't perfect, Curves, Flaws, Emotions ect. Real women can be bigger or smaller and not always be so nice, like how Ana is in the movie and the other women in the film. I think the movie is more about just weight, but also how women are "supposed" to be and how they really are.

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thanx hun, but I already have.

By the way, if a post is not to your liking, you can simply scroll in another direction (scroll bar is on you right).

Right it all depends on the woman. Women come in all different sizes. I know a few curvy people who are healthier then alot of other people. Personally because I'm small frame the extra weight would hurt me physically. It's the same if a small framed woman had too large of breasts. Example: Soliel Moon Frye. She's petite, but her breasts were hurting her, so she had them reduced. Same with Roseanne Barr. Some people can handle extra weight. I can't. I don't think the movie exploits obesity at all. Even Rachel Ray says it's in her butt. It's even has to do with your heritage. My mother is shaped like a Pear, My younger sister is overweight and has health problems that she has not gotten taken care of and she has two children. That is what is sad about it. I could never be bulimic, because I can't stand to throw up and I could never be anorexic, because I love to eat! I get really bad stomach aches if I don't eat, because I'm only 4'11 and weigh 100 lbs. I gained 5 lbs and I can't even notice it, but that's just me. It all depends on the person's heritage, genes and how well they take care of themselves. I got the movie a few weeks ago and watched it. I laughed so much. I almost cried though. That movie is inspiring to all women. Just my opinion.

That's great, spit at the fat kid- Vern in STAND BY ME.

lizznettles, the part in you post about "anything that is not a stick figure is considered to be curvy reglardless of a person being a size 8" is so true (and also about some women having it in their thighs or arms etc). Personally, I am only 115-120 lbs (5'3") and am a size 7/8 (sometimes 5/6 depending on the brand), but yet I'm considered "curvy," because I have the chubby thighs that many women can't get rid of due to hormones. My dad actually comments on me getting fat, even though I'm on the LOWER end (more towards underweight) of what is "normal" on the BMI (body mass index) scale.

What healthy women should LOOK like is sometimes relative and in the eye of the beholder.

thank you...the last post was the best one on here in my opinion..the point of the movie is to love yourself for who you are, curves and all. threads like these just make me realize that some people are idiots. not everyone is ment to weigh 100 lbs at 5'6...and i think its hilarious that people see these beautiful women as being fat and unhealthy yet how can you look at say kiera knightly and can't think she looks unhealthy?? im sorry for all the thin women who have to watch one movie where being thin isn't celebrated, and this somehow offends you. try living in a world where you can weigh 130 at 5'5 and still be told you are fat..this movie is lookin @ a different type of body than the typical hollywood prototype and its appauling that it offends you or that you have such a narrow mind that you can completely miss the beautifl message this movie is trying to get across. women are beautiful as they are and it is narrow minded people like you that are responsible for society's eating disorder epidemic.

I liked what you had to say :)

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I think the general concept can be missed going solely off the title of this movie. People see it and assume they are saying that only REAL women have curves and that "skinny" women don't. Which of course isn't true. I liked how one person put it, that curves refers as much to body style as it does to flaws, and other issues that any individual can have with themselves.

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