Comments on: Why Our Flaws Are Beautiful: Fitness Magazine Tells Us to Embrace Our Unique Imperfections http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:29:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Padma Lakshmi http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-479 Padma Lakshmi Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:43:02 +0000 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-479 <strong>Padma Lakshmi...</strong> Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts !... Padma Lakshmi…

Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts !…

]]> By: Beauty and the Breast » Blog Archive » Women Over 50 NOT Choosing Plastic Surgery! http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-383 Beauty and the Breast » Blog Archive » Women Over 50 NOT Choosing Plastic Surgery! Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:18:23 +0000 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-383 [...] is inevitable and just maybe we should do it gracefully as life has intended? As our friend Sybil stated a few weeks ago, she likes her patina. VIVA [...] […] is inevitable and just maybe we should do it gracefully as life has intended? As our friend Sybil stated a few weeks ago, she likes her patina. VIVA […]

]]> By: Gloria http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-221 Gloria Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:09:14 +0000 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-221 In my younger days, I was self-conscious about my B-C breasts and curvier figure My family is first-generation Chinese, and all the women in my family are delicately built and eat like birds. Well, I've always loved to eat, which translated into chubbiness as a child. Later, that chubbiness turned more into curves, but still I saw myself as a fatty compared to my sister and all my cousins. Furthermore, I was teased about the fact that I actually had breasts, which gave me the sense that my looks were low class, maybe even slightly obscene, appropriate for the kind of woman who spends her life giving birth in the rice paddies, but not the fragile flower who in another era might have her feet bound and become the treasured ornament of a wealthy family. When I left home to go to college, I obviously got much more exposure to western standards of beauty, but it took me years to figure out that having a figure was not something to be embarrassed about. In my younger days, I was self-conscious about my B-C breasts and curvier figure My family is first-generation Chinese, and all the women in my family are delicately built and eat like birds. Well, I’ve always loved to eat, which translated into chubbiness as a child. Later, that chubbiness turned more into curves, but still I saw myself as a fatty compared to my sister and all my cousins. Furthermore, I was teased about the fact that I actually had breasts, which gave me the sense that my looks were low class, maybe even slightly obscene, appropriate for the kind of woman who spends her life giving birth in the rice paddies, but not the fragile flower who in another era might have her feet bound and become the treasured ornament of a wealthy family. When I left home to go to college, I obviously got much more exposure to western standards of beauty, but it took me years to figure out that having a figure was not something to be embarrassed about.

]]> By: Pam http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-219 Pam Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:52:51 +0000 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-219 I laughed on the pocketbook analogy... I am that way with new boots... I can hardly wait for them to be broken in and to have the shape of my foot. Then I know they are truly mine. Never thought of aging quite like that... but it is sooo true. The laugh lines are a medal of honor for a life well lived!! Kindest thougths Pam I laughed on the pocketbook analogy… I am that way with new boots… I can hardly wait for them to be broken in and to have the shape of my foot. Then I know they are truly mine. Never thought of aging quite like that… but it is sooo true. The laugh lines are a medal of honor for a life well lived!!

Kindest thougths
Pam

]]> By: Fitness » Why Our Flaws Are Beautiful: Fitness Magazine Tells Us to Embrace … http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-216 Fitness » Why Our Flaws Are Beautiful: Fitness Magazine Tells Us to Embrace … Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:52:25 +0000 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2007/10/22/why-our-flaws-are-beautiful-fitness-magazine-tells-us-to-embrace-our-unique-imperfections/110#comment-216 [...] neer1010 wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptA woman I know once told me that when she acquires a pocketbook, no matter how expensive or luxurious it is, she doesn’t particularly go out of her way to keep it pristine. Why? Because when pristine, the pocketbook will continue to … [...] […] neer1010 wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptA woman I know once told me that when she acquires a pocketbook, no matter how expensive or luxurious it is, she doesn’t particularly go out of her way to keep it pristine. Why? Because when pristine, the pocketbook will continue to … […]

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