Comments on: Peary as a Princess

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:21:11 +0000

Awww, Maggishness. That’s awesome.

McLeod’s Daughters and intermittent fat acceptance: what can’t Australia do?

By: Maggishness

Maggishness — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:46:23 +0000

I know this is coming in later, but just in case anyone sees this:
I live in Australia, and today while standing in line at the supermarket, I flicked through one of the trashy women’s mags. It had the same picture of Beatrice, plus a few others taken the same day. The focus of the article? How she was having fun and looked so much more happy and comfortable with her body than her mother.

By: Meg Thornton

Meg Thornton — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:21:23 +0000

I have to admit, my first thought when I saw the article was “Oh gods, she’s *nineteen*? Where the hell does the time go?”. Yeah, nineteen, and looking damn good.

By the bye, the reason her bikini top looks too small may just be because it is. Being an E-cup type myself, I have a lot of trouble finding suitable bathing suits for my rack o’doom. To the point where next summer (it’s coming into winter here in .au now) I’m going to just wear one of my old Bodywise bras and a spare pair of leggings rather than try and find a pair of bathers which fit. I figure it’s a fair retirement for the leopard-pattern bra, after all.

Oh, and just to let blnkfrnk@gmail.com know – the UK Daily Mail is also against anti-royalist sentiments as well.

[My opinion on what wound up causing the demise of Andrew Windsor and Sarah Ferguson's marriage: a massive case of clashes of expectations. There's what he expected of her, what she expected of him, what his family expected of each of them, what her family expected of each of them, what was expected of them by the press, what was expected of them by the public, what was expected of them by his job, what was expected of them by her job, and what they each expected of themselves. At some point, you have to be willing to say "okay, I can't live up to this", and to be honest, I'm glad to see the two of them were psychologically mature enough to be able to say "this marriage isn't working, how about we divorce?" That their divorce was amicable, and that the pair of them are still friends, says a lot. For an example of how *not* to handle things, have a look at the first marriage of his elder brother.]

By: Dani

Dani — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:28:33 +0000

All the dieting in the world isn’t going to make Bea a hipless, thighless twig. I’ve been a slight pear shape all my life, even at the height of Treehorn Syndrome.

Or, as Sam Saboura puts it in his book Real Style (which I really liked even though I, personally, think whisker-wash jeans are crap), “No amount of dieting and exercise in the world will turn the lush curves of an Oprah into the lean-limbed grace of an Audrey Hepburn. And you don’t have to.“

By: sarawr

sarawr — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:03:55 +0000

This whole thing continues to amuse me, because do you want to know what I grew up hearing and knowing about Fergie? I grew up hearing and knowing that she wrote some of my favorite books — when I was a kid I loved the Budgie the Little Helicopter series to death, and it fascinated me the way the author’s name was written: It didn’t say “Sarah Ferguson” on the cover, it said “HRH, the Duchess of York.” I thought she must be a terribly romantic, brilliant person. And to be honest? I still think that. Those books were awesome.

So, uh… in sum, I can’t think of a better person to rock HAES, you know? Especially since she seems to have taught her daughter to rock it as well.

By: Dolce

Dolce — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:27:04 +0000

Ah, Fergie. I am not old enough to remember when her troubles with the media began, but I wish she’d been ballsy enough to say “I’m sucking royal peen, you are not.” Or at least thought that to herself.

Funny how a bunch of losers calling you fat seems to outweigh almost everything.

By: sleepless

sleepless — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:36:40 +0000

She has a gorgeous shape, and noone should give her shit about that. I hope she ignores them all.

By: Sharn

Sharn — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:36:23 +0000

This is only partly related, but…

Have you ever noticed that in most of those trash tabloid articles about best and worst beach bodies, most of the “bests” are dry and most of the “worsts” are wet? That’s because NOBODY LOOKS GOOD IN A WET SWIMSUIT. Regardless of your gender, age, size, muscle tone or general overall attractiveness; regardless of the style, construction, fit or cost of the suit, regardless of how TOTALLY FUCKING HOT you look when it’s dry, you will be about as sexy as a dirty sock once you hit the water. Any support the suit gives you goes bye-bye once it gets wet, your hair becomes limp and messy, you’re probably going to be all squinty, since you’ll be outside in bright sunlight, and you’re probably not wearing any makeup, either. Yeah, that’s a great look for everyone.

By: Meowser

Meowser — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:22:29 +0000

Annie McPhee - re Coulter, start here.

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:03:24 +0000

It seems to me that if Bea is confident enough to wear a bikini, emerging Venus-style from the sea for all to see, that she’s tough enough to take what the Daily Mail can dish.

I hope this isn’t inappropriate, but I wonder what she weighs? I ask because I feel like, at my weight, I wouldn’t dare to wear a bikini, but I don’t think I’m any heavier than Bea. Man, I would love to be that confident.

And Sarah? Also a real beauty. I know we all have our preferences and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I really appreciate a curvy, busty, body. Yum!