2003-02-25 - 11:24 p.m.

The Hipbone's Connected To...

Today I read something fairly disturbing in a health & fitness newsletter:

"Today I'm remembering her hipbones. They entered the room, it seemed, a full minute before the rest of her did (she had, also, that particular runway-model gait). This was in the days of the first round of hip-hugging jeans. Karen's hipbones were the most articulated hipbones I can ever remember seeing. They rose up out of her jeans creating a kind of ledge,or butte, on either side of her body. You could rest a coffee cup on each of them while admiring the trampoline stretch of belly skin that pulled across the front of her."

Um, does this sound disgusting to anyone else? Is this really the image we want to try to attain?? Not me... I am the first one to admit that I was glad to find out that I actually have hipbones and I am still excited every time I catch a glimpse of my collarbones that have recently put in an appearance... But that description sounds WAY too extreme... Especially for a health and fitness newsletter... No way bones sticking out that way can be remotely healthy, much less attainable for the majority of the population... Why not celebrate healthy bodies, no matter what shape or size??

It's sad what passes for beauty in our culture... It comes in a lot of forms way too often overlooked unfortunately...