Perfect in our imperfection June 11, 2009

I don’t consider myself a catty person and this blog post is by no means meant to change that. But a few months ago I posted a blog entry about Megan Fox being named the sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine (Wait, hold your rolling eyes  & “who cares” until I’m done.) At the time I wrote about how incredibly skinny the actress is and expressed my concerns as to why they chose Megan Fox of all people as the sexiest woman… in the world.

 This week I had to feel bad for the poor emaciated girl because the big news is that tragic little Megan Fox has a thumb deformity called brachydactyly or ‘club thumb’. Yeah, seriously this is a stop everything moment and immediately Google Megan Fox thumb. Or at least it was for the Hollywood gossip shows.

So she has a ‘deformity’, lots of us do. My right knee has a large bump just below my knee cap from having Osgood Schlatter as a child. #1 son has a small scar from plastic surgery to repair his unilateral cleft lip (so does Stacy Keech, Cheech Marin & Joaquin Phoenix), DH has a birthmark on his scalp where the hair grows in white and Monkey Boy’s second toe is longer than his big one.

Big whoop.

Maybe it’s time to rethink the word deformity and perhaps adjust our opinion that only perfection equates to beauty.

So tell me… What is your flaw, your deformity? Come on, everyone has at least one…

 

finally thin is not in July 16, 2008

Actress Megan Fox is too skinny. Yeah, that’s right too skinny (I’ve never been accused of that). From a Us magazine article:

She may have been voted the sexiest woman in the world (by FHM magazine), but the director of Transformers thought Megan Fox was too skinny.

She told Fox News that she was ordered to gain 10 lbs. for the movie’s sequel.

“I’d lost a lot of weight and got really scrawny, but I was told I had to put on size for Transformers because [director Michael Bay] doesn’t like skinny girls,” Fox, 22, said at the FOX Television Critics Association party on Monday.

Her diet these days?

“I eat red velvet cake before I go to bed every night,” she said. “And if you eat meals later, you’ll put on weight faster, so I had dinner at 10 p.m.

Sound diet advice Megan. You’re a great role model. And I love how she describes herself as “scrawny”. I’m glad a voice of reason stepped in and called her on it. More industry professionals should. After all, these are our childrens’ role models who unfortunately set the bar for beauty in this country. FHM should be ashamed for labeling her “The Sexiest Woman in the World”. The sexiest? Beautiful-sure, great hair-check, gorgeous eyes-no doubt but sexiest? In the world?

Photo by Us magazine