This Observer article provided some food for thought this morning.

Though I think the writer’s suggestion that “women are to blame for our obsession with being thin” is much too simplistic. It’s also ironic that while the ‘ideal body image’ has been getting thinner and thinner the average size of real people is in fact getting bigger.

The article mentions how past beauties such as Marilyn and Sofia would be out of work today, which made me wonder what would happen if the likes of Posh and Keira were transported back to the 1950s. They’d probably be hospitalised for their own good.

How did the ideal female body image end up becoming one that resembles a scrawny adolescent boy with breast implants? How far will this trend be allowed to go?

The small pic here is linked so it can be enlarged if you click on it. I cropped the model’s head to focus on the body. The collar and shoulder bones are almost poking through the skin, the elbows look creepily oversized and yet there are these two gravity-defying orbs stuck to the chest.