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I made 2000's fatshaming magazines into art

 (scroll to bottom to see art and skip yap x)

As the title reads, I was given a LOT of early to late 2000's magazines by a friend who knows I LOVE junk journaling...first thing I noticed was the sheer amount of pressure to lose weight, be slim, overall do ANYTHING to avoid looking 'big', blah blah...


now, for anyone who doesn't know me, I am in fact a chunky yet funky gal <33 

(me :DD) 


as you can see the magazine I used was from 2011, best fashion? definitely not, good inspo for self love? also no. art potential? fuck yes.

I actually got inspired and thought about my own size...then I realised I dont HAVE ONE? my whole collection was anywhere from small to 5XL which is INSANE, I cut all my tags and labels, glueing them into my journal, tbh seeing htem all together made me feel party stupid fro even worrying about this before but also relieved, I'd been so worried about fitting into a size that didn't exist, I'm not a number, im me?

every brand, every design every vintage vs modern clothing I own has a different size, yet I fit and wear all of them at my  current weight and have done for YEARS...why?

here's a few reasons: 

my take-away? don't try to fit yourself into a box or a specific size, because realistically you will NEVER have a true size or number,prioritize health and happiness.


clothes are meant to fit YOU, not the other way around   


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Reply by caramelbrew2677

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Beautiful! and surprisingly informative, I never thought about the inconsistencies of women's clothing sizes before..

love the body positivity, keep it up!! -from a fellow overweight girl :)


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Reply by b33zbuzz

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This is so so cool!!!


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Reply by Anisa Mazaki

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I've never been one for fashion magazines and readers digests etc...Alot of fashion stuff are mostly dictated by men (like everything else), done to cater for "male appeal and approval" and the delusions of "faking status", rather than catering to what girls and women actually want. 

Everything in such magazines were often "you have to loose weight to impress a man. You have to wear this if you want to keep a man. You have to do this to attract men....man this and man that....man man man." It was so f**king annoying how much propaganda these pieces of media pushed on women and girls to "please men", instead of encouraging them to be free, independent, strong, confident etc and I never fell for it. I would burn the media instead.


Losing weight and caring about health or learning new skills or finding inspiration to craft your personality isn't a bad thing, but when people weaponize that to make propaganda to force you to comform to someone else's agenda - that's where they loose me.


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Reply by Aquawolf18

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It's so wild to see how recently this rhetoric was mainstream, and it sobers me to the reality that the pushback women are getting now isn't as shocking as I thought it to be. I remember this mindset only really started dying out around 2017, after me too changed the tides and made the previously belligerently mocked body positivity movement a not-so taboo topic to discuss. It's fascinating how much women's relationships with themselves, now decentralised from institutional ideologies, has progressed so rapidly. 

Theory aside, I love the composition of these pages! You really work well in this medium.


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Reply by Sofi

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this is so cool and inspiring!! love it :DD 


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Reply by ☆Nexus☆

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Love this so much!!


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