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Originally Posted by jillio
While I agree that we encourage our young girls to be unhealthy in their weight, I am one of those people who wears a size 1. But then, I'm only 5' tall and have only weighed over 100 lbs ever when I was pregnant. But that is just my natural body size, not something I try to reach. I've never been on a diet in my life, and God knows I'm not going to make myself puke!
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You're fine. I have some friends who are like that... 4'11" to 5'1". They're petite and I'm fine with that.
If I walk by the petite section in stores, I don't care... because that's "petite"... which is normal.
However, it does bother me when I walk through the normal sections that have sizes 0 to 6.
I knew a girl who had a nice body... good figure... nice curves. Everyone liked her the way she was. Yet, she developed an obsession with getting her boyfriend's attention and became anorexic. If her boyfriend worked with a woman who was thinner than her, she got jealous and would try to compete to make herself thinner.
Today, she's so skinny that her ribcage shows... her breasts shrunk to almost nothing (used to be D-cup)... her jaw looks big since she has almost no meat on her face... she has no hips... and I'm afraid to hug her cuz I might snap her in half.
Yet, she goes around excitedly bragging to her friends... "Guess what! I wear a size 0!" *shudders*