Another (not so) Secret is...

You're Fat!!!!

I had the sneaking suspicion that something was up with the women's clothes sizing. When I was a teenager, I could wear a two or four. Now I'm zero-zero??? Then I read this...
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/05/0_is_the_new_8/ and my suspicions were confirmed.

American women are delusional. Fat is not a lifestyle, it is a disease. No matter what size manufacturers put on a label, you are fat. This article should embarrass us as women. Not only do we buy into the idea that scrawny illiterate coked up b-list celebrities are the ideal of beauty, we allow ourselves to be marketed to in the most condescending way possible--changing numbers on clothing? The whole system is set up to see women fail and the corporate machine profits from it. First, teenagers buy clothes at adult stores. Then, 50-somethings try to compete with the 15 year old and buy the same clothes. It's a win-win for retailers but what happens to the 15 year old? She's in credit card debt by the time she's 18. And the 50-something? She's in debt too...and still fat. So she spends money on the diet industry which makes her more broke, and, after losing a few pounds, gains more back...so she is fatter then before and it just continues. Finally, she ends up depending on some pharmaceutical's anti-die from heart attack medication. American women...can we get real with ourselves and stop being corporate pawns?

On a final note, I often hear Marilyn Monroe invoked when fat women try to defend their disease. For the record, a vintage size 12 is a modern day 4-6! http://www.justsaywhen.com/Vintage-101-Sizing.htm