It's terribly embarrassing but I have to admit to a morbid fascination with the latest Brittany Spears fiasco. It's really hard to avoid, even if you don't have MTV, and my interpretation is that you have to feel sorry for this poor, pressured young woman who is clearly having a very public breakdown/burn out. The part that I find very fascinating about this latest incident is the way a lot of people are casting aspersions on her appearance, particularly her stomach flab. Having issues with my own body image, I'm always interested in what other people find fat/attractive/sexy. I look at the pictures of Brittany Spears from this incident and, while she doesn't look cut and well defined, I also don't think she looks particularly fat (go new healthy-body-image-embracing me!). I particularly like these two letters (here and here, particularly the first paragraph) from the Salon article I linked to above. And while one can go on for hours debating how to convey healthy body images to women and the worthyness of such an endeavor, I like to at least collect examples where people talk sincerely about the sexyness and beauty of real bodies.
UPDATE: The second link to the Salon article letters was wrong. I've fixed it now.
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