Love is All Sizes

Just like I think “Love is All Colors” I believe that “Love is All Sizes.”

It’s no prize or virtuous feat to weight 105 pounds.

Match.com used to feature a member’s profile on their homepage.

One guy wrote: “I won’t date fat women.”

That was the first thing you saw when you logged onto Match.com.

How much did a woman have to weigh to be over his ideal weight limit.

If I gained 10 pounds would he divorce me.

Would 150 pounds be too big? Would 135 pounds be just right?

Could he tell by looking at a woman that she was too big?

The MetLife insurance criteria listed that a 5’0″ woman should weight 100 pounds and 5 pounds extra for each inch above 5’0″.

Livid I was that Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H. used this guideline in her book Body for Life for Women.

No girl among us should weigh less than 115 pounds unless we’re one of the exceptions who are rail-thin naturally.

A social worker told me stress causes weight loss. Wouldn’t you rather have no stress and weigh more.

Raisa Flowers the makeup artist easily appears to weigh 220 pounds. I tore out of a fashion magazine a photo of her wearing a colorful-crochet Issey Miyake dress because she looked beautiful. Inserted it in my fashion binder. Yes a famous designer sells gorgeous plus-size clothes.

I would like once and for all for every one of us girls to love the skin we’re in. Whether we’re voluptuous or skinny or in-between.

Take it from me: 105 pounds is no prize. Though there’s no shame wherever the number on the scale lands.

105; 205: Love is All Sizes.