| Kathy L. Hahn
|
2
|
 |
|
04-21-2004 02:41 PM ET (US)
|
|
"Beauty and the Beast"really brings back some memories of my own perhaps 5-minute struggle with too-small jeans before saying fuggidabout it. How well I remember going to the Friday-night discos and wondering if I were the ONLY person there who didn't want to be wearing pants so tight that it would take the rest of the weekend for the skin abrasions to disappear! The truth is, some of us don't have bodies that conform to the "ideal" shape, meaning I might could (how Appalchian) get the jeans up over my hips but then they'd meet interference with my belly (many of my peers got detoured at the hip). I seriously wonder how many later-year internal problems may have begun from organs being constricted too tightly in an anatomical airbag, all for the sake of looking "in" and "with it" in those days of John Travolta . . . and, in re "The Story of My Body," all I can say is: Misfits Unite!
|