Allure October 2012

Allure is one of my favorite magazines for several reasons. I love the layout, the content and I really love to read their articles. Their advertisements are another reason I love the magazine,  they advertise for high fashion companies such as Chanel and then smaller companies like Essie. It's a really great girly-girl magazine.

In the October 2012 Allure published an essay by Jennifer Weiner called "The F word." It was a three page spread about one women who was over weight who heard her daughter call a friend from camp "fat". I usually hate these kind of articles, as a girl the F word is one of the scariest words in the english language. The first page had a huge picture of girls being measure at a weightless camp in the catskills in 2001. The girls couldn't be more then 13 or 14. It made me really upset to think that even at such a young and impressionable age weight plays such a big part of a girls life.

I continued to read on, nearly brought to tears about the daughter Lucy using the F word and then the mothers childhood experience as an over weight child. "I was bigger then the other girls and that is what matters; that is all that matters." She's right, as a girl if you're thinner then another girl thats all that matters, the media has girls as young as 7 thinking that nothing but weight matters, whose smarter, kinder, better at kickball doesn't come close to how much weight means to girls. It's really sad and it's something that this generation needs to change for the next generation. It should be about being healthy, not thin. Weight shouldn't define a girl.

This article was truly incredible and inspiring. I'm really glad i read it and i think that more magazines and media outlets should publish stories like this one, it's a step in the right direction to combat and change societies beliefs about weight and beauty.