Fat or Curvy?

 

Whatever happened to female idols such as Marilyn Monroe? A UK size 14 and one of the sexiest women in history. What I want to know is when did it become “cool” to be skinny? Corsets were made to accentuate curves and old film stars had a lot of them. Did it happen overnight? Over the course of years or a decade? If so, when, why and how did we ever let it happen.

 

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The Come Down

There comes a point where you begin to fall from your high. The come down.
It’s a gradual process starting with one tiny knock that will send you spiralling down. It starts with the occasional five minutes of sadness. Then it escalates to weeping all of a sudden late at night when you realise there’s no one there to talk to. Soon, it begins to take over your life. It’s harder to get up in the morning. You have no motivation to do anything. All you want to do is lie in bed, hiding under your duvet away from the big bad world. You burst out into tears and cry uncontrollably for a few minutes, and then you’re fine.

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