Morose Concept

 If Barbie was an actual woman, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe.

• Barbie calls this a “full figure” and likes her weight at 110 lbs.

• At 5’9” tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.

• If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.

 • Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and camewith a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions inside stating simply “Don’t eat.”

Look at this picture. She looks like a normal woman. Look again: when you actually look, you can tell she’s been touched up in photoshop. Her skin tone, not taking into account highlights and shadows, is completely even. She has absolutely no body hair. These are things we’ve just become so accustomed to that we don’t even notice them in a thing about how unattainable “perfection” is. This woman, who is in a campaign about how ridiculous something like that is, has been changed to make her a kind of perfect that I doubt anybody actually is.

And here, folks, as I said I was going to do, is an real honest-to-god picture of me. In all my rolly-polly self-hating and over-exposed glory. I referenced the marks on the model and this is what we come up with.

When i was doing this, it physically pained me.
Even now, looking at it makes me sick…but it certainly has an impact.

Love yourself.