Learn To Love Your Body The Way It Is
Don't you just hate all those skinny supermodels we all see in women's magazines? Yet people hold up these women with their abnormal bodies as paragons of beauty. Well, we've had it with that sort of stuff in our family. All it took was our cousin's wedding to set us straight.
Our family genotype – that means the way our genes make us out to be – runs toward larger-than-average sizes. Both the men and women in our family tend to be tall and large in stature. We think it comes from all those farmers in our family tree!
Anyway, about six months ago our cousin Celia got engaged. Since we're a close family, Celia wanted nearly everyone to be in the wedding party. The trouble started when she began looking through popular bridal magazines. Before we knew it, we were constantly arguing about how to lose fat so that everybody could get supermodel-slim for the wedding. It wasn't a happy time.
Our fights over diet and exercise were reaching nuclear proportions when the bride-to-be's mother had her fill of it. She came up with a plan to save both the wedding and repair our family ties.
Our aunt consulted with a good friend of hers who operates a bridal shop in town. The dress shop owner said she saw our kind of problem all the time. The best solution, she told our aunt, was to show the bride-to-be how a plus size wedding dress could be the perfect solution to her worries about looking fabulous on her wedding day. Once the bride-to-be was convinced, the bridesmaids would have an easier time choosing gowns as well, she told our aunt.
Then Marge got all the ladies in the family together on the pretext of a gathering to look at party jewelry. We looked at jewelry all right, but she also showed everyone her friend's catalog with those stunning bridal gowns in them. Celia couldn't believe her eyes, and neither could the rest of us.
Before long, the bride-to-be and her now-reconciled bridesmaids were squealing with delightover the pictures of gorgeous dresses. We got so excited that our aunt had to get out her measuring tape so we could measure each other for one of those fabulous dresses.
Our cousin was a romantic vision on her wedding day in a fabulous gown that fit perfectly. And the rest of us, her bridesmaids, were just as beautiful, because we chose fashions that suited who we are.
