Anonymous wrote:Interesting how people who are thinner feel the need to point out how it's the result of personal virtue, while their fatter relatives are greedy:
Anonymous wrote:
No, I've always been "the thin one."
+1, except in my family that means "the one who doesn't eat a half gallon of ice cream for dessert and instead eats one scoop."
Anonymous wrote:
No, I've always been "the thin one."
+1, except in my family that means "the one who doesn't eat a half gallon of ice cream for dessert and instead eats one scoop."
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A size 10 bride is heavy????
I thought this too.
huh? Yes. She was 180 lbs at 20. Her groom was 130lbs. She's heavy in the pics. Idk maybe a size 10 is a higher number today due to vanity sizing. We're short too.
Yeah - that's probably a 14/16 today if she's short. Size deflation and all.
No, that's not how it works. With vanity sizing, what was a 10 back then would be an 8 or even a 6 today.
if she's short AND 180 lbs AND a size 6/8 today, something doesn't make sense.
Anonymous wrote:I would agree that women tend to be heavier now, but it's important not to dismiss the serious food and size issues many women had in the 60s and 70s. Women frequently smoked, took meth diet pills, and abused diuretics and laxatives to stay thin. My mother, who has had an eating disorder since adolescence, says she took diuretics her whole pregnancy so her doctor wouldn't yell at her for gaining weight. She was underweight and told to gain only 15 pounds with pregnancy. We definitely all eat too much now, but don't underestimate how screwed up earlier generations were.
Anonymous wrote:No, I've always been "the thin one."