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"I can eat like a Hoover and stay a size 2"... Right!

Deidre and I have been having a lively comment discussion on the post, "Victoria's Secret fantasy prance." One thing that came up was the whole concept of the skinny models who say in interviews, "Oh, I eat whatever I want. It's not a big deal for me." That line used to irk the hell out of me. Sometimes, it comes off smug like Donald Trump and his sliding scale net worth.

Over time, I realized that when a smug skinny says, "I eat whatever I want", what it really means is "I can eat whatever I want, and what I want is lettuce, coffee, and cigarettes because those things keep me skinny." No one can throw it down at the Hometown buffet, eat at McDonald's, or slurp at the spaghetti house, and stay a size 2. Unless of course, you exercise enormous amounts at the gym, are bulimic, or have the metabolism of Olive Oyl.

Eileen Ford likes to call these skinny models, naturally gazelle-like beings. Okay, you can have the frame of a gazelle but that doesn't mean you can eat the typical American diet and stay that thin without exercise or bulimia. Call me cynical. As well, when do you ever see a supermodel in ads for food. Heidi Klum did it for McDonald's salad in Germany, and even in those ads you never saw Da Klum chewing on food. It's only the illusion of eating.

I'd like to see Giselle Bundchen sinking her lips into one of those $6 hamburgers.

Victoria's Secret fantasy prance

Victoria's Secret recently had their big fashion show at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. The whole show will be on CBS on December 5th. I don't know of any other event that makes women feel more "not good enough" or creates an unrelenting bar for beauty than this extravaganza. I mean this is no normal fashion show. This is a whole show about Panty-topia.

Look at these girls. As you look at this image, what feelings, and thoughts are starting to pop up for you? Me. I think, how can anyone live up to this image? Is this supposed to motivate me to go buy undies and bras? Yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be a fantasy because the real us is not as exciting as this. Someone's sprinkled pretty-dust all over me, and now I'm in Shangri-la-ti-bra.

Right now, as weak as it sounds, I just want to curl up in bed and hide under the covers. I'm a smart, talented, funny, caring, and giving women, and yet images like this can make me forget in an instance all my other wonderful traits. Fortunately, I don't forget or devalue those qualities of mine, but again the pretty spell has me under.

Giselle Bundchen one of the VS models is the highest paid model in the world. Her contract with VS helped her make $30 million in 2005 alone. That's $30 million to pout and look pretty. The other VS models as well, no doubt, get paid a great deal of money to be picture pretty.

Why do we celebrate this image so and reward it with so much money when there are other people who make very little doing good works like saving lives, feeding the poor, and teaching the illiterate? I guess it's too much to get deep when talking about thongs.

[via The Blemish]