The Ugly Truth

Brave woman for doing this… powerful message, heard loud and clear. Thank you.

CURVES BEAT STRAIGHT LINES ANY DAY!!! X

Not with us girls..mary..:)))

you nailed this on the head… wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! powerful picture with a message !!! I LOVE ART like this !

Bravo, chica.
Love it if you’d add this to my group, “Imperfectly”. Send you an invite if you’re interested. xo

such bravery…the top two photos are just as phony to me as the three skinny girls….it’s a rare woman that naturally and _ comfortably_ looks like any of them!
i’s wager they all went to great unnatural lengths to look this way!!!

Nicely thoughtful image. Although you should be talking about “people” instead of just women – men have to try to conform to a certain image if they want to be considered attractive to the women.

NO NO NO GORGEOUS! Excellent photo and message.

This is Awesome Mary! And so true!

such a powerful image. instant fave for me. i personally think curves and the natural look is so much sexier than fake boobs and a stick thin waist, really well done xox

If the eyes don’t get you nothing will. I think all a bloke wants is that they are happy with themselves, as is !!!

We just come in all shapes and sizes and there is no role model of perfection…..even if the media would try and sell this sad story to us…..I do think the generation today of young women are really not buying the propaganda as much….hope more find this understanding. Brilliant look at how real women are…. :)

If you read alot of stuff thats printed, men say they like women with curves, abit of flesh, but then look at all the porn that is spun around the cyber globe. all with ultra slim women of a certain age, shape etc. hard for women not to get drawn into this image. womens mags aren’t any better. criticising one for being too skinny and then another for putting on weight….. I look back at photos when i was slimmer and remember how i felt at the time – just like I feel now!!! Not good enough….. thanks for posting your image and the other pics and text. helps to remind me its about the whole person not certain parts. Excellent. :) xx

Congratulations!

Both the image and the side examples are really necessary to make the point. And congratulations for the features, for having the “guts” to say it how it is.

So true…
Good one.

Love this post! You are soooo right! XX

it is the western equivalent to foot-binding. this is how our society creates self-loathing in women. very strong and clever image

Awesome work!!! Thanks Mary!

congrats on your features!!
they are well deserved
Great conceptual image and taken very well

Excellent rant and work!
Do you know this website? Pretty cool.

Thank you for posting such a wonderful image and such a glorious (and right on the mark) rant! Amen, Sistah!!!

Great Message says I who is going under the knife tomorrow to have her lapband revised and who had a tummy tuck a year ago and is still unhappy. :( XOXO Tash!

great work-give me soft, voluptuous curves, any day!!!

Here I’ve been feeling bad about myself because I’m not as thin as I used to be… though exercise and eating healthy are definitely important, I know it’s also important to love your body. I’ve usually had excellent self esteem. But for some reason I seem to be absolutely hating the way I am right now after having gained weight. I definitely think there needs to be a balance. It’s not good with how many obese people there are in the world today (you are from the states as am I, we both know we have a serious obesity problem here). Though I’m not and have never been obese. In fact up until about 2 years ago, I was naturally underweight even though I ate all the time. But now that I’ve gotten more of a tummy and my thighs got bigger, I feel bad about myself… I really shouldn’t. I’m honestly at a healthy weight for my height, but I think even though I’ve never felt bad about my weight in the past.. society has probably effected me subconsciously with all those images of thin women floating around in the media. It’s really disgusting…. and I almost feel ashamed for allowing it to effect me this way. But I still feel like I want to do stomach crunches and lose the fat…. I guess I’m conflicted now. But I didn’t used to be. However I think women with curves are beautiful as opposed to stick figures.

This is BRILLIANT!

About a year or so back, I saw two British magazines on the same shelf of a newsagent. Side by side. One showed skinny celebrities and gleefully suggested eating disorders. One showed “fat” celebrities and crowed over the fact that they’d fallen from their pedestals.

Thing is, those magazines created those pedestals in the first place, then undermined the foundations, then waited for the celebrities to fall. These magazines triumphantly point out every tiny little imperfection. And these magazines give women idealistic and unrealistic images to strive towards, purge themselves for and generally fail to achieve.

I don’t mean to dump all the blame for the entire culture on this area alone, but when I saw those two magazines, side-by-side, I wondered what the margin for error was. And I was too jaded to feel outraged, so instead I just sighed and moved on.

ANGEL Im with you HUGS xxx

AMEN SISTER!!!!!!!

i like pear shapes.. thats me, ppl are never satisfied with what looks good these days.

Wow, this hits home…as a teenage boy…you see girls (and women) as “prizes.” And, looks are, for some reason, a reason that a relationship is made or broken. I can’t say I have much experience in that because I don’t, but the world is more than looks. This makes me emotional because a majority of girls believe that they have to cut, remove, or change something about their bodies to make people like them. This couldn’t be further from the truth and it is my hope that people acknowledge this…even if it’s just me…and it makes the world a littler nicer. Well done. =)