Source: Calvin Klein
Eva Mendes is the new face for Calvin Klein’s Seductive Comfort underwear, a move CK president and CEO Tom Murry says is “a departure from more slender body types that have typically been used in Calvin Klein Underwear ads...This product is made for a curvaceous woman.”
OK. Yes, Eva is curvier than the average Hollywood A-lister, who usually is a willowy size 0, but...yikes! She's still slender! She's probably a 4 on a supposed "fat" day.
Source: Harper's Bazaar
Cut to the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar, which features "curvy" Jessica Biel on its cover. For whatever reason, in the accompanying piece, the following size-divulging sentence infiltrates the story:
"Though the 26-year-old star is still happiest in her size-26 7 for All Mankind jeans, Jessica is dipping her toes into designer territory, surrounding herself with the most extravagant gowns from the American fall runways."
Do we need to know her size? And, as she is usually referred to has "curvy" or "heavier" by Hollywood standards, it's pretty damn sad that's she's a size 26, which is a 2/4.
How do I begin? In three weeks, I will be turning the dreaded 3-0, and my body has changed itself within the past few months in such a way that I look as though I'm hitting that milestone having had three kids and no tummy tuck. I've always been a voluptuous girl, yet still quite slender, meaning I've got the tits, ass and thighs, with a slender waist and slender arms. This has changed quite a bit this past year. My body's set point seems to be around a size 8 (or size 29 to 30 jeans), though I certainly have fluctuated, getting to as low as a 2 (or size 26). I was chastised by family and friends when I was a 2; even when I was a 4 I was told I was too skinny. So, what gives? These two women are supposedly curvy—and they're only size 2s? I guess that puts me in fat land, which I had already relegated myself to. Damn those Hollywood women and their impossible to attain standards! It would be nice if we could all just stop with the body image crap...but it's hard to when it's tossed in our face constantly. Should there be a new standard? How do we dig ourselves out of this thin obsession? When will the pendulum swing?
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