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A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?”

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

“Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I’d rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn’t enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: “How amazing am I ?! “

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Daily Mail Article On Manorexia

A friend of mine is in the Daily Mail today (well a friend of a friend) and it makes for such sad reading…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2130463/Recovering-manorexic-eats-soft-foods-terrified-choke-solids.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

This is why we need to teach our younger generation that all bodies are good bodes and that being “overweight” isn’t a bad thing. We have a generation growing up that are being taught that the way someone looks is the best way to judge them.

Let’s teach a nation that the scales do not measure your worth and that the size of your jeans doesn’t dictate your beauty. Let’s teach everyone to love our own bodies and that what other people do with theirs is their business, let’s teach a nation of children to love themselves even if they don’t look how the media says because we are all be-you-tiful!!!

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