That is precisely what their marketing was designed to accomplish. They set out to make you devalue yourself by comparing you to people you will never ever be, and never ever need to be in order to love yourself.

The underlying message of starving-thin models as a body standard for the fashion industry (and implicitly all women) is that thinness is an exclusive commodity equated with desirability, wealth, and discipline. "If you cannot discipline yourself enough to have this body, if you aren't successful enough to buy these…

"It cannot be denied that visually, clothes fall better on a slimmer frame,"

I'm a grown up now, but reading Teen Vogue voraciously as a teen when it was new and being obsessed with fashion still makes me feel really crappy about not being stick thin and tall to look good in all the "fashionable layers." I hate admitting this.

"It cannot be denied that visually, clothes fall better on a slimmer frame," she writes, "

My favorite way to enjoy fashion is to look at the way real women (and men!) on the streets of Manhattan interpret it. I have no use for the magazines, and reject them. But I LOVE seeing what people DO with the clothing available on the market and how they dress their bodies.

YOU GOT PR BOMBED GURRLZ

i'll beat everyone to the chase

I actually wondered if he was doing some sort of performance art piece to demonstrate the value of educational foundations or something.

I found the whole article difficult to read. But you made me laugh, though! Thank you.

True. I had to read it about three times.

yo, whoever let that first sentence go without an edit...

Like they haven't felt that way since birth. Fat little babies.

meanwhile all the fat and ugly amputees go...

do I get a vial of magic holy spring water when I buy the book too?

YES! I immediately thought of this.