The Changing Body Image From Skinny to Healthy

For all those weight conscience people out there, it looks as if you can finally relax those tummy muscles, take a deep cleansing breath, and let the pooch show. The anorexic look is fading out and a healthier image is returning to popularity. No more fingers down the throat. No more pill popping to decrease the appetite. No more of the Nazi death camp look. Women with a more feminine look with the curves we are intended to have are becoming encouraged by the media and even beauty pageants.

Thanks to the tabloids showing boney shots of Paris, Nichol, and Kate Moss, the sickly look of stick figures is not seen as attractive anymore. Twenty year old Georgia Horsley, crowned Miss England of 2007, has been advised to gain some weight before the Miss World pageant in China. Yes, gain weight! She is not one who has a boyish figure like the skeletal runway models. She's actually nicely filled out. She's healthy yet not chubby in any way. To gain weight would put some extra meat on what are already nourished bones.

It is so refreshing to know that such an accomplished competition of physical beauty such as the Miss World pageant is making a reversal statement of what beauty is by wanting a more womanly figure. Looking back at the decades of long ago, the full-figured woman was "in". It was attractive to have meat on the thighs, shapely hips, and an all-over curvaceous body. In the 1940's and the 1950's, and even half way through the '60's, a woman who was soft to the touch was true beauty. Then the ever-so-famous model, Twiggy, came along. She was a stick-figure with a boyish body, a boyish hairstyle, and big eyes that seemed to scream, "FEED ME!" She did not look much unlike Oliver Twist when holding out his bowl saying, "may I have some more, sir?"