Rainahblue
Well-Known Member
I'm highly aggravated, so rather than search to see if my rant will fit in another thread, I'll just create one.
Today during my bikini hunt online, a well-meaning friend sent me a link to a website that allows shoppers to create "Virtual models of all sizes." I was skeptical, but thought I'd give it a shot. I was delighted to see that I could manually enter my virtual self's weight and I could select her height.
Great!
So I entered my stats: 5'2, 225. I even gave her almond shaped eyes, dark hair, and adjusted her skin tone.
Awesome!
Eager to see a mini-me onscreen I clicked "continue" only to recieve this message:
"We're sorry.
You cannot create a model with height and weight combination you have entered...."
That made me angry. The stupid site carries my size (18), so why can't I create a virtual me to see how the swimsuits would look? Are they saying that I can't exist? My fat ass sure feels real.
This possibly irked me so much because today Sandie S_R posted this kick-ass introspection in a different thread:
Is that what people think? That "real women" are "pleasantly plump" not actually fat? You're welcome to celebrate your tummy until it becomes a gut?
This is what "I" look like - the closest I could get:
Proper weight, wrong height.
Proper height, wrong weight:
:doh: Those don't look anything like my body type - not even close. I think I'm so far beyond being "grateful" for fat girl stuff that I can't even appreciate an attempt to recognize us as normal people who happen to swim during summer. Years ago, I would've been excited that the model was at least bigger than normal, but not anymore.
Perhaps this is bitterness.
Today during my bikini hunt online, a well-meaning friend sent me a link to a website that allows shoppers to create "Virtual models of all sizes." I was skeptical, but thought I'd give it a shot. I was delighted to see that I could manually enter my virtual self's weight and I could select her height.
Great!
So I entered my stats: 5'2, 225. I even gave her almond shaped eyes, dark hair, and adjusted her skin tone.
Awesome!
Eager to see a mini-me onscreen I clicked "continue" only to recieve this message:
"We're sorry.
You cannot create a model with height and weight combination you have entered...."
That made me angry. The stupid site carries my size (18), so why can't I create a virtual me to see how the swimsuits would look? Are they saying that I can't exist? My fat ass sure feels real.
This possibly irked me so much because today Sandie S_R posted this kick-ass introspection in a different thread:
Is that what people think? That "real women" are "pleasantly plump" not actually fat? You're welcome to celebrate your tummy until it becomes a gut?
This is what "I" look like - the closest I could get:
Proper weight, wrong height.
Proper height, wrong weight:
:doh: Those don't look anything like my body type - not even close. I think I'm so far beyond being "grateful" for fat girl stuff that I can't even appreciate an attempt to recognize us as normal people who happen to swim during summer. Years ago, I would've been excited that the model was at least bigger than normal, but not anymore.
Perhaps this is bitterness.
