Top Model RANT!!!

"Plus Size Woman Wins Top Model"

This beautiful woman, Whitney Thompson, was the first plus size model to win Top Model.

She is a size 10!!!

I mean really... A SIZE TEN... is a plus size???

OMG!!!

Can someone please explain to me how a size 10 is a plus size???  

I do not understand this at all.  

I know that I am a intelligent human being.. 

I have the test scores to prove it... 

but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how this happened.

Since when does a size 10 equal 'a plus size model?'

Come on, are they serious?

Good luck finding a size 10 in a plus size store such as Lane Bryant!!

I would kill to be a size 10!!  Hell, I would kill to be a size 12 or 14!

I would shoot Dick Cheney to be a size... no... no... wait a minute... 

I would shoot Dicky boy for nothing!  That one is on me!

Sorry... I digress.

Size 10 = plus size......

And some people wonder why kids are growing up with such huge self-esteem issues.

Young girls mainly see thin, very pretty, and very made up women on television and in the movies.  

Young boys think they have to be these big and buff guys that they also see on television and in the movies also.

They are told they have to look a certain way, act a certain way, wear only popular labels of clothing.. it is crazy.

Don't kids have enough pressure on them today without this extra junk loaded on them by society??

It clicked for me one day while at the mall shopping. 

I saw and heard a kid crying for a pair of Nike's.  He was having a fit.

His mom asked why he was acting that way and he finally said that he was the only one of his friends that didn't have those kind of sneakers and that the other kids were making fun of him.

He just wanted to fit in.

I tell you this story because people like me... people who are over weight just want to fit in and be taken seriously.  

Being over weight sucks!!!!

It is very difficult to fit in.  

I am very lucky in the fact that I have some amazing friends and family that see past my weight and see me for me.

Not everybody has that.  

And I still get looks sometimes and if my husband Paul is with me.... He is ready to go and hurt the people that give me 'those' looks.

And you know the kind of looks I am talking about.

It can be embarrassing at times.

There have been and continue o be times that my husband will ask for a chair with no arms for me so that I can sit comfortably when we go out.

I sometimes won't go out to an event becasue I know that the theatre where the play is showing has small seats.

Or becasue i don't feel good in the clothes that I find to wear.

I think twice about doing or going most places.

So what are we as a society, or as individuals, going to do about it??

How does one go about telling retailers and the fashion industry that we will not put up with these ridiculous assumptions, that a size 10 person is a "plus size" human being?

When is enough, enough???

Will a size 6 person be the next Top Model plus size winner?

What are we teaching our children to feel about themselves?