Posted on 08/16/2005 8:17:30 AM PDT by manny613
We seem to be watching a horror show of too thin Hollywood actresses. Or at least that would be the observation of anyone who even skims the tabloids, talk shows or People Magazine...
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A female friend of mine once remarked, while looking through my Playboys, that the women in there looked more like "real" women than the models in women's magazines.
I pointed out to her that women's magazines and women's fashion have nothing to do with what straight men like. If she wanted to figure out what men liked, in terms of looks and clothes, check out Playboy, not Glamour.
Keep in mind the airbrushing, though. Even Jenny McCarthy said publicly that her body really didn't look in reality like it did in the pages.
If she wanted to figure out what men liked, in terms of looks and clothes, check out Playboy, not Glamour.
The standards USED to be really stringent for GBP (I'm going totally from memory here)...but you had to have more than one co-morbidity and be over 100% of your IBW.
Now I think it's lower or even on a "I wanna" so can I have it? I did talk to one woman that wasn't that overweight, in fact, she looked pretty OK to me. But she was as excited over the surgery as a kid at Christmas.
Go figure.
I agree. I expect more from professionals.
Do you find the woman's pic in post #26 to be overweight?
The problem with young women being overly thin is that they look like 12 year old boys. Personally, I'm not attracted to this look.
BTW, the chick in #26 is smokin'!!
LOL. Well, practice makes perfect! (I can't believe I just typed that...)
Maybe the Playboy models from the seventies and early eighties, back when they actually had meat on their bones and hair between their legs, look like real women, but the ones from the past ten years or so all look not just photoshopped, but totally computer-generated.
yep, Jessica.
its cool
I do understand...
Sadly, a high % of those of us in the nutrition profession do have some kind of food issue. I used to freak out if my weight got over 113#....the least I ever weighed was 99# and that was during a period when I simply forgot to eat for long stretches of time.
I never threw up or anything like that....I was just super-obsessive to the point of lunacy.
And I had a ballet teacher, post-grad who was a stickler about weight and would scream at me that I needed to lose "10" pounds when I really needed to lose just 1 or 2.
Yeah, it was strange when I broke the weight barrier ;) and entered into the 'Plump' zone....like a paralell universe sorta.
[Jenny] McCarthy tempers her sex-bomb image with a careful combination of kookiness and Oprah-style empathy. She especially likes to reveal the star-making machinery's smoke and mirrors. On "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," for instance, she explained how her CD poster had been digitally altered. "I'm doing this to show all those young girls at home," she told O'Donnell, "that when you look at a poster and you look in the mirror, you want to cry and kill yourself because you don't look like that. I'm going to show you what I looked like that day for real. Because I had huge zits, I was P.M.S.-ing, I had a huge cold sore on my lip, which you can't see because they airbrushed it. Stretch marks all over my butt, which are gone. Birth marks, bruises. You name it. It's airbrushed."
Now you've gone and ruined my fantasies :-)
I'm talking more about the body-type that guys tend to lean towards. It's different from the models walking down the Milan catwalks.
Giselle is supposedly the "curvy" Victoria's Secret model. Now, I wouldn't kick her out of bed, but she is not what I'd call curvy:
Especially when it comes to fashion. I wonder what women are thinking when they wear the prairie look or those ugly suede boots (two recent fashion trends). No straight man, ever, found those items attractive.
Women don't believe me when I tell them that guys like short skirts, high heels and tube tops on women.
You mean this guy? He's ok I guess. 
No, I mean Michael Chiarello.
I think in some cases it's a matter of musculature...compare that pic of Gisele to those present pics of Lindsay. Gisele is skinny, but she also has well-defined abs and breasteses. She looks more athletic than anorexic to me.
Photos have to be somewhere on the net, you can't post em from your local puter to free republic. Have to post them somewhere on the net, then you can do an HTML tag to point to the image and they will appear in your posts.
The woman in that picture used to be a man.
Oh wait, she looks like that Tula person that was in the James Bond movie. They freaked when it was found out that she was a transsexual.
Agreed, that ain't curvy... athletic yes, curvy no.
If she wanted to figure out what men liked, in terms of looks and clothes, check out Playboy, not Glamour.women dress for men before they are married and they dress for other women after they are married...
i have a HELL of a time getting the wife to undo/untie/unbraid her hair like she did twenty five years ago!!!
"Maybe the Playboy models from the seventies and early eighties, back when they actually had meat on their bones and hair between their legs,"
Made me chuckle.
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