All For Healthy Role Models
It’s hard (what with all the inundations: looking around on the internet, watching tv, reading magazines) to find an image of what exactly is healthy.
There is this image of Healthy Holly-wooders and Gym Jennies: women in control, a woman who loves and is loved in a perfectly perfect way.
Then there are the Low-Class Lindas who eat whatever they want and refuse to let anything dictate their lives. These Poor Pollies might appear in our minds as older, complacent, boring…not the exciting Model Minny who runs around constantly, receiving praise and love from any and everyone. This is who we want to be because that IMAGE follows us around as our own archetype, our own Diana or Aphrodite. We live in praise of these deified women without thinking, following their desires and being shamed by their shame of what is ugly.
It’s a tough struggle, to fight for the unique, the beautiful, the real. The women who are present, not the gods that don’t exist, high up there on their golden, platform shoes, suntanned to perfection, worshiped by all. The fact is, that Image doesn’t exist except for in your mind, waiting to be realized IN you, as a part of you, a beautiful aspect of your personality just waiting to blossom.
Take a few steps toward embracing! Even just little ones 
Start by being honest with yourself little by little, and accept the challenge to accept.
Here are a few sites I would love to share!
A survey on Beauty you can take!!! —- http://healthyisthenewskinny.com/blog/2012/02/health-and-body-image-survey-for-girls-and-women/#.Tywn0hnrm1Q.facebook
A “Natural Model” Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/naturalmodelsla
Healthy is the New Skinny Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/healthynewskinny
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I have never been able to understand why women, especially young women, put others up on high pedastals. I used to work in the cosmetics industry a billion years ago and we had our own photographic studio so I met a lot of models, and yes I could not help but admire them for their elegant beauty. Did I aspire to be like them? No, for all their looks they didn’t have what I had, which was my complete freedom to be me. This body, this vessel that contains my thoughts and fears, my imagination and my laughter, this me, is the only me I am ever going to get. Yes, it has to be maintained in a healthy manner, but not at the expense of being glad to be alive. Nor would I want to change my looks under the plastic surgeons knife, why would I? This old face with all it’s wrinkles and lines is loved by many and you cannot get that kind of love from working out at a gym, faddy dieting, wealth, fame or what have you. I do not care what size or shape a person is, I do not care whether she is over weight or shaped like a bean pole I am only caring for what is contained within, for there lies the true person, the person who can be truly loved.
SOO true Chrissy. The perfect face doesn’t bring freedom or happiness. In fact it can be just the opposite and cage you in…sooooo true. UGH!! I’m enthralled with that comment…it’s what INSIDE all this hype that we put up, at the very core that you can’t see, that’s what needs and desires and feels and can be loved, like you say. I hope you reach a lot of girls with that message…or just live it and be a role model for those around you, that is definitely enough. Period. Thank you for sharing your beautiful soul, it means so much to me!