Odille,

Interesting about fashion magazines.

I remember once my step mom seemed to make a point of commenting to me that she didn't like a single thing she had seen in a magazine she had just finished looking through.

Maybe that was all there was to it but I always suspected that she had done that on purpose to impress upon me that we do not just need to eat up everything shown to us in the media. That what we think is more important than what any fashion magazine reports.

Very slowly it seems there is some evolution going on about the kind of images shown by the media as an ideal.

Earlier this year in Spain ultra thin (to the point of looking literally sick) runway models were banned at a certain fashion event and you do see a couple tv characters (Ugly Betty) that don't fit the long standing mold.

I think it is important to make a point of letting children know they don't have to suck up everything the media spits out. This can be done, for example, by simply watching a program with a child and then discussing it together


XO Jessica