i know blake lively is still white and thin and conventionally gorgeous, but i still really appreciate women who look like her and sydney sweeney who are natural curvy and not stick thin and whose bodies aren’t altered by plastic surgery. i know they still conform to American beauty standards, but there’s a difference between blake lively or sydney Sweeney and the 90210 women or the kardashians
Well tbf, Blake Lively has had a fair amount of plastic surgery on her face and has never admitted to any of it, which isn’t great! I would almost rather celebrities cop to the plastic surgery they get instead of pretending they just look that way. But, body wise I agree about people like Blake and Sydney Sweeney and Megan Thee Stallion although of course, there are some issues with how Megan is marketed, which makes me sad since she really is an extremely talented rapper and I love her work even though it’s not my usual type.
The way people, including other women, talk about Sydney Sweeney’s body kind of drives me insane like of course she got famous being hot and doing a lot of nude scenes on Euphoria but there has to be a line like reporters asking her GRANDPARENTS what they think of her breasts absolutely crosses that line! Her boobs aren’t even that big, she’s probably a DD or thereabouts like I am, which is within the realm of normal, but since she’s quite slim elsewhere, her breasts look proportionally larger than they otherwise would.
The simple reality is that most adult women aren’t straight up and down, especially when they hit their mid-20s even if they were slim teenagers. Selena Gomez is a few years older than me and she was very thin when she was a teenager and now, she’s not plus sized by any means but she’s definitely not a size 0 like she was on Wizards of Waverly Place. It’s just totally unrealistic to expect an adult woman to have the proportions on the left, but I think that Hollywood almost expects women to do so even when it’s not natural for them. The right is Selena this year and she looks great, I love the orange in particular, but definitely isn’t as slim as she was in her teens. With Selena, it’s also that she’s had her share of health issues as well so that obviously would make her gain and lose weight as well.
the year is 2013
“It’s an everyday sensation for most of us, yet it proves a tricky sort of problem for those people who hope to make art. For though we know and recognize discontinuity in our own lives, when it comes to art we are deeply committed to the idea of continuity. I find myself to be radically discontinuous with myself—but how does one re-create this principle in fiction? What is a character if not a continuous, consistent personality? If you put Abraham in a novel, a lot of people would throw that novel across the room. What’s his motivation? How can he love his son and yet be prepared to kill him? Abraham is offensive to us. It is by reading and watching consistent people on the page, stage and screen that we are reassured of our own consistency.”
— Zadie Smith, from “Some Notes on Attunement”, Feel Free: Essays
Dolly Parton, Here I Am
