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During the brainstorming that precedes each article, I asked myself several times if there was a specific time in my life when I began to feel the need to need to be thinner, with less protruding hips, or when what I was seeing in fashion magazines did not represent me at all.
I have explained many times how my milky-white skin, blond hair, and light-colored eyes almost never caused me any problems during my short life; but there is a time when even Barbie Perfection - I could be called that according to the canons but which I do not feel I represent in the slightest - began to doubt her body.
I remember that after finishing my short career in artistic gymnastics, I decided to sit still for a year to decide which sport to start. I was 11 years old and a metabolism that at moments disposed of even my vital organs. A year later I was 12 and in a completely different physical shape. All of a sudden I felt embarrassed to go to the beach, it made me uncomfortable that anyone could touch me, and I didn't want to do anything anymore.
I lived my adolescence watching my girlfriends and dreaming about their bodies, seeing how they were the “pretty girls that boys like” and I the one “shy or too chatty.” A contradiction isn't it? But that's the way I am.
During the past few years, on the runways of many fashion brands, the number of mid-size or over-size models has been going down over time, until the last season just presented in which the bodies considered non-compliant were for mid-size about 2 percent and plus-size about 0.3 percent. The problem, besides the most obvious one, is the thinness with which other models parade down the runway, so light you can see their rib cages and bones.
Inside an article written by journalist Giuliana Mattarrese for Linkiesta Etc,, it shows that during the last season there were also limiting sartorial constructions. For example in Alaïa's fashion show there were large architectural constructions on the hips and tight on the rest of the body. By doing so, it is not possible for that dress to be worn by a person who a different physicality than the model on the runway.
The problem obviously starts with the decision makers within the brand. Quoting the words of Marco Rambaldi, creative director and co-founder of the brand that bears his name, one of the few to have presented the “Forgotten Bodies” by the current fashion system. “It's not a secret, everybody else knows very well how it works too, the problem is that they don't care to do it... The sample book is calibrated to size 38-40 and so of course you do that prototype first and then from there you go to size development to get to 46-48, or sometimes you even work on custom.”
Mentioning another current example, for the April cover of Vogue USA, the inspiration is. Hairspray the film, first theatrical musical, in which protagonist Tracy Turnblad lives in a 60' Baltimore and dreams of a more inclusive America, especially for people like her.
In the promotional video released by Vogue USA “Can’t Stop the Beat” one sees a Gigi Hadid intent on dancing and singing with an overt inspiration to the previously mentioned film. The video features Cole Escola, a non-binary person; Laverne Cox, a transgender actress; and Alton Mason, an American model but of Haitian and Jamaican descent. No bodies over 38.
An oxymoron for a film that revolves around plus size and translated into Italian is called “Fat is Beautiful.”
We are obsessed with perfection. Obsessed with not having wrinkles. Obsessed with fitting into clothes that compress our rib cage to the point of suffocation. We lose weight and inject so many substances into our bodies to chase the idea that we can have a better version of ourselves. Just like the movie The Substance, a 2024 film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
Without giving too many spoilers, the film tells the story of Elizabeth Sparkle, who as she grows older And losing his fitness -at least that's what they say - loses boh her job.
Willing to do anything she takes refuge in The Substance, this substance that allows her to have a younger version of her, Sue, every other week.
Sue, however, ends up disregarding the established balance, causing damage to her original version. The story continues with Elizabeth, who even at her most desperate and low point, is still willing to do anything to be Sue, showing a desperation to be perfect to the end. In every sense of the word.
If we want to come back to reality for a moment, we too have our Substance: the Ozempic.
This drug, originally created for the treatment of diabetes and severe obesity, is to date the substance that Hollywood stars eat the most in order to look perfect at all times.
It is no secret that Hollywood cameras need the toned and perfect physiques, there are those who resort to certainly healthier methods and those who choose the easier, but equally more damaging, route such as the Ozempic.
Numerous Hollywood stars already say they have used the drug to lose weight, such as Nikki Glaser, but just as many stars are thought to have used it but without confirmation from those directly involved, such as Megan Trainor for the 2025 Billboard Awards or Kim Kardashian in 2022 at the Met Gala to wear Marilyn Monroe's dress.
In addition to the physical damage done to the stars in question, such as the hollowed-out and aged face renamed Ozempic Face, the greatest harm that has been created is that pharmaceutical companies cannot keep up with the demand for it, and so those who really need to take this drug for health reasons find themselves having to wait or even without it.
To this day I do not love my body, but I have learned to live with it, I have learned that there is no such thing as one perfect body.
Thoughts are still running through my head though. They tell me that maybe if I avoid eating the dress at lunch today for the party tonight it will look better on me. That I must not eat ice cream or pizza or whatever I'm craving because then I'll gain weight. They tell me that even if I'm starving, I have to drink water until I get over it.
People always told me when I talked too much that I should shut up, but how do you shut up thoughts?
Kisses, Alisia <3
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