In article <20083@mindlink.bc.ca> Janet_Wilson@mindlink.bc.ca (Janet Wilson) writes:
>Well, I am 5'6'' and my ideal healthy but look great weight is about 115.
>BUT I have a fairly large bone structure. Cindy may have a lighter structure
>(she must, by her photos) and even with her extra 4 inches, may be able to
>maintain a 120 lb. weight. It can't be easy unless she is very fit.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Or she could be starving/purging herself.
>My point is that she is advertised as normal, an answer to the pathologically
>thin modelling ideal, and I think she is still a LONG way from normal for
>most women.
>
An old SO of mine stood about 5'8" and weighed about 130. She had the typical
thin-person-physique of long-arms, long-legs, long-neck, and relatively
short, narrow torso. My first visual impression of her was that she could
stand to gain some weight. In all fairness, that is the same first impression
that folx have upon seeing me, as I have that same type of long-limbed physique.My old SO was nowhere near being big-boned, but she could easily have packed
5-10 ponds more weight on her frame if she were to develop her upper body
to the same standard as her lower body. You see, she had _great legs_,
all the way up to her ever-so-shapely hips, as a result of ballet training
as a youth. She was more-than-a-little fit, and quite a bit stronger than
she looked. She sported a 26" waistline, w/o any special training, and as
such, she was one of the very few women that I have dated who had a waistline
smaller than my own. She was also one of the few women that I had ever met
who could keep pace with me on a bike. Anyway, she was slim, shapely, and firm
at 5'8" and 130 lbs. I can scarcely imagine her being 10 lbs. lighter w/o
looking boney.
I met a woman this summer who was an aspiring powerlifter and recreational/
fitness cyclist. She was slim, trim, firm and shapely at 5'6" and 140. Her
waistline had to be less than 25". She was the only woman that _I've_ ever
met (and I know that others exist) who could do chin-ups. She could also
bench better than bodyweight. I wonder how much Flo-Jo weighs in "olympic"
trim, or off-season. I will lay odds that it is quite-a-bit more than 120.
To make a long story short, I agree with Janet...... most emphatically!
