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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to take this from the opposite end. It's less about wealthy women taking a particularly extraordinary effort to be thin, but that less-wealthy women have more obstacles and challenges to prioritizing health.

Wealthy married women, especially those who married into wealth and don't have to work for it, can put their health above all. They can shop 100% organic, carefully prepare all of their foods or have a household cook do it, they can join expensive gyms, they have leisure time to devote to fitness and self-care.

Less-wealthy women (including middle class and UMC women) would probably love to have this lifestyle, but it's more difficult when you are chained to a desk at work to impress your boss to get the raise you badly need, when you have to buy in bulk at what's on sale at Giant instead of artisinal organics from Whole Foods or the Farmers Markets, they probably have to commute far to their jobs from lower COL areas, they are responsible for picking up their kids from wherever, the demands of their jobs and parenting make cooking quality meals every night not impossible, but requiring more willpower than that of a "leisure class" woman, and the amount of me-time needed for daily extended exercise has to compete with the job and household and kids.

I'm not saying less-wealthy women can't be slim and fit. I'm saying, there are more priorities to compete with personal fitness than someone who has all the time and money in the world for self-care.

And I'm not even saying this from the perspective of a bitter, fat woman. I'm actually a thin lower-middle-class woman who could probably do better in her career if she spent more time at a desk at work instead of prioritizing working out....I probably take too much time out of my day to exercise and spend more than I should on healthy food, and I'm in a precarious financial situation because of it. There are tradeoffs to everything. [/quote]

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