Ashamed, wanting and wishing
Self-conscious and embarrassed
Victims of advertisers who
Prop toothpicks up as models.
Do we really aspire to be something about 5% of all women are?

A 13-year-old girl reading a magazine
One image causing her to pause –
She examines the page and then gets up
Turns to the mirror and stares
Looks away and then down
Slowly goes back and shuts the magazine

How do they want us to feel?
Wrong, ugly, fat, not good enough?
Women, models, which are 5’9 and 100 pounds
Are not the true representations of
What women are or should be like.
Starving themselves till they are skin and bones,
Puking after every meal,
Girls as young as middle school start feeling sad, alone, and not worthy,
Realizing they are not the picture perfect “girl.”

Beautiful, healthy, strong, positive,
Yet normal or average size women
Should be the role models we look to when
We finally choose to open a magazine.