The Belly: The Last Taboo For Women's Bodies

Last May, Marie Claire ran the following headline: "Butts are in." Meanwhile, according to September's issue of Vogue, "We have officially entered the age of big butts." All this is somewhat ironic, coming from fashion magazines whose pages are hopelessly empty of big behinds. It's no surprise that critics have pointed out -- and rightfully so -- that people like big butts, and they've always had success in Black and Latino culture, even if Vogue is apparently the last to know. But it's true that butts, and by extension, thighs, are enjoying the limelight in today's media. They're celebrated pretty much everywhere: by Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea in their last video, Queen Bey, Nicki Minaj in her video "Anaconda"... We almost talk as much today about women's butts as we do their breasts, the other female attribute that the media wants bigger and bigger, and ever more exposed. So the perfect woman has to have big boobs, a big butt... but why doesn't she have a big gut? The stomach remains the big taboo of the female body; it can't exist, it has to be as flat as possible, with the waistline perfectly defined and no disgraceful flab. This is even more blatant when we look at the fashion world and its models. Slowly, the fashion world is diversifying what we see, with labels that haven't traditionally catered to other body types including more and more "plus size" models on the runway, like the sublime Denise Bidot (size 12) during the last Fashion Week in New York. Yet, none...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news