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Sel f-acc ept ing s ize 10Columnist embraces her big booty and is OK with the fact that shell never fit in

a size 0

By lindsay paulsen is a freshman journalism and equine business and facility management major and is a staff writer for the t&c.

Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Updated: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 20:11

Im in the fitting room at Forever 21. Its Lindsay versus the skinny jeans ... and the skinny jeans are winning. I find

myself jumping up and down while desperately trying to hike the pants up to waist level. Fail. Time for Plan B. I start

doing squats and lunges all within the two square feet of the dressing room, hoping that maybe, just maybe, I can

squeeze myself into the smaller size. Nope. After envisioning an elaborate scheme involving Crisco, fishing line and WD-40 that would allow me to fit into those pants, I manage to give myself a reality check and just face the fact that I have

to go up a size. Just as I come to this conclusion, the woman in the room next to me calls out to the sales clerk, Do you

have anything smaller than a double 0? Seriously? Has the woman ever met a calorie before? So I trek back out to the

clothing racks and sort through a stack of pants. Of course, theres a whole slew of 2s and 4s, but that doesnt help me.

I find my size 10s and sulk back to the fitting rooms. They slide on relatively easily. Thank God. I glance in the mirror

and see an image far less desirable than I would have hoped for. I suck in my stomach and rotate like a rotisserie

chicken, trying to find a flattering angle. To my disgust, it appears that there is no such angle to be found. Therefore, I

do what any normal girl does and I blame it on the mirror. After incidents like that, I often find myself walking away from

the store, with my size 10s in hand, vowing to never again so much as even look in the direction of a carbohydrate.

Then I inevitably pass by a Cinnabon or some other similarly unhealthy food source and abandon that idea completely.

Its tempting for us to fixate on concrete numbers and sizes when the idea of being fat is such a subjective concept. In

other words, if I were to ask the editors of Vogue if I was fat, Im certain they would say yes but if I were to ask Queen

Latifah, shed probably say no. We turn to looking at numbers, sizes and measurements to eliminate the gray area. For

those of us fixated on sizes, it should come as somewhat of a comfort to know that size 14 is the average pants size for

women. For those more concerned with shape rather than size, a survey conducted by SizeUSA revealed that 64

percent of women surveyed were pear-shaped, while only 30 percent were straight-figured. It looks like the Victoria

Beckhams and Miley Cyruses of the world are in the minority. Its too bad that the American clothing industry doesnt

reflect that. Ive accepted the fact that I will never be a size 0 for as long as I live, due to the fact that cream-filled

doughnuts and mint chocolate chip ice cream will always sound more appealing than a size 0 figure. I have decided that

I have my whole life to eat tofu and wheat germ. So why start now? In the meantime, Ill take advantage of the fact thatGraeters is within walking distance. Ill just steer clear of the skinny jeans and spandex jumpsuits and Ill embrace the

fact that Baby Got Back is my personal anthem.

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