And although I do get tired, being endlessly admired

Posted by Sappho on October 24th, 2006 filed in Blogwatch

Way Too Pretty, by AwesomeGoddess: how Maximilian in Candide might write if he were female and had a blog. I found it via Happy Feminist, who used the over the top blog persona to start a more serious thread about the ways in which a focus on beauty can be a problem for the beautiful as well as the plain.

I’m not sure how far Awesome Goddess is trying to spoof narcissism, and how far she’s trying, in an exaggerated way, to make some real comment about problems beautiful people may face. But, either way, what surprises me is how very angry her commenters are.

Anyway, she does have one post that I can identify with:

Last Spring I was a good healthy size six.

But over the summer I was too busy to eat much. (Don’t ask!) So when I pulled out the old jeans for school they were hanging off me.

I sure don’t want to end up looking like Nicole Richie. So I turned to ice cream. Mostly strawberry ice cream dripping with chocolate sauce. Sometimes I ran it through the blender with fresh strawberries.

Then I moved on to vanilla ice cream with ripe bananas.

Hey, I’ve actually been there! Not recently, to be sure (right now I’m in no need of gaining weight), but when I was younger. At one point I was actually “prescribed” chocolate milkshakes, to put some more weight on me. And, of course, she gets the hostile, gloating comment from Anonymous, “Sitting around eating ice cream you won’t be so pretty much longer!” Anonymous, I am ever so glad you weren’t my friend back when I really did need that ice cream.