Yes! This is so exciting!
"What is?" You may ask... The answer is that I am so excited that a thin, but healthy woman is featured in this Express ad. Express is one of the big advertisers in most fashion magazines. This is a big deal. This woman is absolutely gorgeous, but she also actually looks like a woman. She has natural curves and genuine beauty. She isn't fake. She isn't trying too hard to fit this mold of the perfect model beauty. She has the whole package. This is inspiring.
This especially makes me happy because of this conspiracy I've been noticing in the media about eating carbs. In Christmas movies such as Just Friends and The Holiday, Anna Faris and Cameron Diaz say that the thought of eating carbs makes them want to kill themselves. This is absolutely sad. Why should we not eat carbs when our bodies need them. Without carbs, we do not gain the fatty tissue we need to be at least a little curvy, depending on our body types. Without these fatty tissues, we look like 12-year-old girls! This I can attest to! It drives me crazy. I have lost seven pounds in the past week because I never got around to buying bread. I didn't have the time and I ran out of money from buying Christmas presents. Some may say this is a good thing that I lost weight, but at 5'8", being a person with ADD and a person with hypoglycemia, losing that much weight isn't the best thing when finals are coming up. This affected my mood, strength, energy level and my attention span. I can only imagine what the models in the hottest runway shows for the hottest designer labels go through. This can't be good with having so many women in one place at one time. This makes me nervous.
P.S. By no means am I calling this Express model fat, I am completely complimenting her and am very proud of the advertising department and for the director of model casting to choose such a beautiful woman to represent them!
Text Alexandra Faye
