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Fein and Schneider took characters straight out of the pages of contemporary women's magazines, complete with unattractive weight obsessions, a tendency to natter on about themselves and desperation on the subject of Mr. Right, and inserted them into a cartoon of a supposedly bygone world, one in which women practice impeccable sexual restraint and hard-nosed romantic pragmatism.
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Josquin's elegy imparts the information that Ockeghem was "learned, handsome in appearance and not at all stout", suggesting that celebrity weight obsession is hardly a modern problem.
My mother-in-law, who obviously has a weight obsession and is quite thin, has started making comments about my daughter's size: "I can't believe her legs are so big when she kicks all the time".
Weight obsession, by no means a product of the aerobics age, has long been fixed in the American psyche; plus-size clothing actually predates the '80s by seven decades.
But even if your mother-in-law is a real Cruella de Vil, with a full-blown weight obsession and a case of amnesia about her own children's chubby legs, simply arm yourself with the facts.
If listening to teenagers you don't know discuss the minutiae of high school life — the hookups, the weight obsession, the spoils of popularity, the despair of lacking it — if that's your thing, then this is the book for you.
But is there a downside to this body and weight obsession?
Now you have morphed into this big narcissistic ball of weight obsession, and it just is not becoming.
The budding British journalist and reality television star penned a column on dieting that makes a series of inflammatory claims about standards of beauty and weight obsession.
There is lots of talk of food but thankfully no mention of weight obsession until p. 461 (yes, this is a long book -- 557 pages!).
Be wary of eating disorders or weight obsession.
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