Model Girls
The new season of America's Next Top Model has started. It's a tradition that I watch it with my girls - both of whom entertained notions of modelling at one time while my ex and I would offer, "You should get parents who would pay for modelling lessons and drive you to them" and so on and so forth and more of the same etc etc until they gave up. I believe the final word on the subject was daughter number two exclaiming in exasperation, "Mom, I want to be a model!" and me responding delightedly, "Ooh. Great idea. Go be a model and make millions of $$$s so Dad can expand his Star Trek action figure collection!"
Oh my - parenting. It's never done, I tells ya.
Anyway, now we all watch ANTM and make fun of the wannabe models and Tyra and the over-the-top panel of judges.
Well, yesterday's debut featured a girl who was obviously not in the running to be a regular model, but yet - she wasn't "big-boned" enough to be a plus size model, either. So, we were sitting there, laughing about how she wasn't even gonna make the cut for Tyra's nod to The Big Girls, when daughter number one said, "Hey... how come there are super skinny sized models and plus sized models BUT NO NORMAL SIZED MODELS!!!!!
So yeah - what's up with that? I mean, we've all accepted that modelling is for insane people (Exhibit A: Tyra Banks) but what's up with the nod to plus sized women but no nod to everybody... normal?
I mean, really - if men only knew the obstacles women have yet to overcome. Like plus sized models getting in on the modelling action before normal sized women. Really, women can't win for losing. Unless you lose so much you're likely to slip through a crack in the catwalk.
