On the Audrey Hepburn note: you know how she kept so thin? It wasn’t really due to proper diet and exercise. Rather the opposite, really. She lived in Holland during WW2 and was malnourished throughout a crucial part of her development. When she was about 15, Holland was under a lockdown that led to a famine. From then until the Allies liberated Holland, she lived on a diet of grass, endives, and tulip bulbs. She had to deal with a myriad of health issues from then until her death, including a particularly extreme form of edema that would have killed her if the liberation had gone much later (apparently, if it reached her heart, she would die, but it only reached her ankles by that point.) She maintained a slim figure (5’7” and 110 lbs.) with zero effort, which is admirable until you realize that her BMI was 17.23, which is underweight. I’ve made clear that I have some reservations about the BMI system, but at levels this low, the fact that muscle is denser than fat doesn’t really enter into the equation.
And the unhealthy body image that Hollywood seems to be pushing just becomes even more alarming when you consider that this is why she was such an icon.
And the unhealthy body image that Hollywood seems to be pushing just becomes even more alarming when you consider that this is why she was such an icon.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
