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Big Girls Need Some Lovin’
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| When Camryn Manheim won her Emmy for best supporting actress in 1998,
she got up on stage and said, “This one is for all the fat girls.”
She instantly became a hero and role model for plus-sized women around the
nation. Now it’s my turn to give hope and spark confidence in all of
the women on campus who feel as though they do not fit in the mainstream
skinny world. Let me begin by saying this: CURVES ARE IN! If I had a dime for every time a guy has told me that he is more attracted to a girl who has a curvy figure than one who is like a stick, I would have my student loans paid off by now. Men are visual creatures; their eyes wander. If you give a guy two figures to point at with his fingers and follow, one straight and one curved, I can guarantee you that most guys would follow the curved shape. Why? Because he can see where the straight line goes, how it begins and how it ends. The curved figure has more appeal because it is like a mini-adventure. He has to follow the shape to discover the conclusion. Another point that proves that big is in is the clothing industry. Go to your favorite clothing stores and check out the sizes offered. Stores such as Old Navy, American Eagle, and Maurice’s offer clothing in bigger sizes. Old Navy now even has their own line of clothing called Women’s Plus. Stores such as Lane Bryant specialize in clothing specifically for large women. I never thought I would be able to wear a pair of the famous Seven7 jeans, but thanks to both the designers of the jeans and Lane Bryant, I wear mine every chance I get. The film and media industry is starting to succumb to having “more realistic” characters for roles. Camryn Manheim successfully played defense attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABC’s The Practice. Nia Vardalos played the lead role of Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Kirstie Alley, better known as the bartender babe from Cheers, will debut her new comedy Fat Actress, a television show poking fun at the media’s obsession with thinness, in March. It used to be hard being a woman as big as I am. Because of the media and advertising industry, beauty used to only come in a 125-pound, blonde-hair, blue-eyed package. But now, plays on Broadway, movies and books are all starting to cave in to the idea that women who are big are just as beautiful, if not more beautiful, than some of Hollywood’s actresses. Voluptuous, curvy women are all around us today. Some of them may be your mothers, your friends, your professors or your favorite actresses, and yet all of them are still just as amazing and talented and beautiful as any other woman out there. Big women are just as powerful and capable of succeeding as other women in today’s world. The only thing different about them is that they need just a few more inches of cloth to wrap around the curves of their bodies.
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