women picspam
Dec. 8th, 2006 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salixbabylonRemember way back when I was collecting images of women with healthy bodies? Women who are not stick-thin and skinny, not altered by surgery, with no additional plastic parts? Women I could use as role-models in a "you could actually achieve this look!" sense?
Well, here's what I came up with:
And just to babble a bit - the point of this collection was to fine some visual role models. I have struggled with my weight since I was 9 years old, and while I want to change that, I've never yet been successful. I realized one of the things I lack is the ability to visualize my body, fit and healthy. Still curvy, but strong. I didn't want to have just movie stars. Because it's so easy to think they're super-human and don't ever have to struggle with the debate of spending $4.00 on a burger and fries at the fast-food joint versus a $9.00 sandwich at the gourmet cafe, and only having $10 in your wallet for the next week. Or the cost of gym membership or personal trainers or etc etc etc. It's easy to say that I can't look like them because I'm not rich and not devoting my life to how my body looks for my living.
So that's where this came from, and why I included the belly dancers at the end. To know that real women do this, not just the wealthy and not just the under-30 years old.
Good luck to you all in your plans to have and own and create the body of your dreams, and thank you to everyone who suggested images!
*smooch*
Well, here's what I came up with:
| angelina jolie |
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| gina torres |
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| jennifer tilly |
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| kate winslet |
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| marilyn monroe |
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| carrie anne moss |
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| catherine zeta jones |
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| claudia black |
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| drew barrymore |
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| mia tyler |
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| queen latifah |
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| rachel ray |
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| rachel weitz |
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| salma hayek |
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| serena williams |
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| sophie dahl |
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| xena (lucy lawless) |
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| gabrielle (renee o'connell) |
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| And then for some non-famous women, we have the belly-dancer crowd: |
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And just to babble a bit - the point of this collection was to fine some visual role models. I have struggled with my weight since I was 9 years old, and while I want to change that, I've never yet been successful. I realized one of the things I lack is the ability to visualize my body, fit and healthy. Still curvy, but strong. I didn't want to have just movie stars. Because it's so easy to think they're super-human and don't ever have to struggle with the debate of spending $4.00 on a burger and fries at the fast-food joint versus a $9.00 sandwich at the gourmet cafe, and only having $10 in your wallet for the next week. Or the cost of gym membership or personal trainers or etc etc etc. It's easy to say that I can't look like them because I'm not rich and not devoting my life to how my body looks for my living.
So that's where this came from, and why I included the belly dancers at the end. To know that real women do this, not just the wealthy and not just the under-30 years old.
Good luck to you all in your plans to have and own and create the body of your dreams, and thank you to everyone who suggested images!
*smooch*
