Miss Invisible by Laura Jensen Walker

Author:Laura Jensen Walker [Walker, Laura Jensen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

At home I jumped on my blog even before I put on my jammies:

Wednesday

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,

Who’s got the skinniest thighs of all?

Why are we so fixated by what we see in the mirror?

Take tonight. I was at this party where I overheard this slip of a girl talking about mirrors. She couldn’t have been more than a size 4, tops, and she was complaining about how fat she looked in a dressing-room mirror.

If that woman thinks she looks fat, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Most women I know are always complaining about how they need to lose weight--even the size 2s. I could never let those women know my size. Sure, they can look at me and probably guess, but they don’t actually know. Unless, of course, they work in women’s clothing at some department store.

Remember gorgeous Kate Winslet in Titanic? When that blockbuster movie first came out, all the entertainment TV shows and magazines went on and on about how big and “voluptuous” she was--and she was only a size 8!

What is it with Hollywood? Could we have a reality check, please?

I was thrilled a few years ago when a new sitcom featured a larger-than-average single young woman on the boob tube. Since TV adds ten pounds, she was probably only a size 10, maybe a 12 at the most. And she was absolutely adorable, with long, gorgeous red hair, beautiful eyes, a fabulous smile, and a cherub face. A year or so later, when I picked up a celebrity magazine, I was dismayed to see that this same curvaceous woman had lost fifty pounds. To celebrate her new size 6 figure, she’d also had her fabulous hair cut and dyed blonde--making her indistinguishable from the bevy of Hollywood blonde clones.

The same thing happened with a redheaded teen actress whose freckles and curves were a welcome respite from the shallow sea of blonde anorexia. But once she got a couple of hit movies under her curvy belt and turned eighteen, she, too, fell prey to the Hollywood clone machine. She dropped twenty pounds, dyed her hair blonde, and completely lost her unique appeal.

I don’t need to worry about that happening to me if I ever head to Tinseltown. I don’t care if blondes have more fun or not, it’s just not me. Besides, I’d have to lose way more than twenty pounds to fit in. (Good luck with that!)

The thing is, maybe we shouldn’t spend so much time looking in mirrors. Sure, it’s good to make sure you don’t have spinach in your teeth or mascara smudges under your eyes. But maybe we should spend a little more time looking at what’s going on inside of us. Is the person we see in the mirror the same person the God of the universe sees?

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