"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.