Why is it so awful, according to the media, for women to be over a size 8? What happened to "normal" sizes?

Answer 1

i'm a size 8 at the age of 14! and thats UNDERWEIGHT for my age but look at peole like Miss Beckham with the waist of a SEVEN YEAR OLD! It is so bad and it doesn't look nice at all, size 12 or 14 is average for adults I think but it is just awful how much the media and "celebrities" influence us. at least it is better then medieval times where enourmas was considered good because it showed you wealth, but in victorain times it was even worse, a man had to get both hands round your waste to dance

Answer 2

I really don't get it either.
Considering that around 50% of UK women are size 16 or over, it makes no sense.
Size 8 is small & of course there are always little women - I have friends who are naturally tiny and neither of them are happy - they both would rather be larger. Size 6 - how many people do you know who are this size?
It makes me ANGRY! I am disgusted at celebrities like that human Peperami Victoria Beckham for so patently starving themselves & then saying "I eat really heathily, blah blah bullcrap". They live on nothing & probably spend their entire existence ravenous. A BMI that low is both unnatural & unhealthy.
Big hand to Charlotte Church - she is a happy size 12 & should be held as a real example of a woman. Can't imagine the scrawny ladder-like waifs the media believe to be ideal are exaxtly cuddlesome. Like hugging a toast rack.
The lower end media are culpable for causing many women to feel inadequate unless they are the "ideal" size 8.

Answer 3

Oh it's all completely nuts now.

I remember when Kate Moss became the 'in' supermodel and all the magazines were up in arms about how she was anorexic and images of her encouraged eating disorders. (Her BMI is 16.5 which is medically anorexic.)

Last week one of those same magazines was rallying against Victoria Beckham and saying women should aspire to healthy, heavier weights - such as Kate Moss'. So now an anorexic BMI has become healthy!

All the chaps that have posted up about how they prefer a size 8 girl have no idea what they're talking about. Assuming they're UK (an 8 being a 12 in the USA) they've just counted out Kelly Brook, Michelle Marsh and a tonne of other lads mag totty.

I'm thoroughly sick of magazines announcing 'curves are back' amd 'we love curvy girls' only to give us pictures of size 4 waifs whose only definition are their rib cages poking through.

It really is time we fought back against all this lunacy. We should all stop buying stupid magazines and start reminding men that if they think a size 8 is a prerequisite, we think anything less than an 8 inch dick is worthless.

Answer 4

I understand what you trying to say here, but perhaps you should rephrase your question.

'Is it so awful to be over a size 8 as the media tends to lead us to believe that this it is wrong'

It is all dangerous drivel but young girls in particular are very influenced by what the media thinks. We should not be obese, but what is wrong with a size 16 in UK terms at least. Nothing!

Answer 5

Does media say that it is awful?

Is catherine zeta zones below size 8?
What about shakira and Jenifer lopez ,Salma Hayek or vida.
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Media welcomes any size that is appealing ,not too flabby which overall looks attractive.The quality matters.A thin girl can have stretch marks and cottage cheese which a healthy girl may not.Nothing has happened to normal sizes .They are all there ,hot and happening..

Answer 6

I'm 19 and a size 8/10.. Its stupid that the media say things like this it poisons young minds into havin to be skinny.. 10/12//14 r perfect shapes.. Curves r in n bones r out i say..

Answer 7

I don't get it either, but it p*sses me off to know end. Anything smaller than a size 8 is too skinny. Women are supposed to have curves, and the smaller sizes have women with little girl bodies. No, give me anything over a size 8 anyday, and i'll leave the little twig girls to the boys.

Answer 8

I asked my friends (who are all male) and they all agreed that they prefer curvier women. They said they'd feel too nervous with skinny, going-to-snap-in half-or blow-away-in-the-wind women. I've looked in the petite sections is stores and the clothes there aint that nice compared to those in the section for normal people.
Women are supposed to be curvy and have a little fat, it's healthy for us! The media are fixated with fragile, unhealthy women at the moment. When the fashion changes they'll fixate on normal sized people.

Answer 9

What do you mean by "the media" ? Most of the media doesn't care; its only celeb mags & similar tosh that peddles this trash.

I think there are generally two ways of selling; sell something that makes people feel good & feeds their ego or else sell something that preys on their insecurity & makes them feel bad. And there is a lot of money to be made the second way...

Answer 10

The average size of a North American woman is a 14.