Size Zero is back - but Body Gossip attacks! JOIN THE REVOLUTION!

Today I read something that scared me to my (healthy and well-protected) bones. "Size Zero is back." After all the brilliant progress that we have seen recently - Size 16 model Chloe Marshall winning Miss Surrey and entering the Miss England finals in July (Go Chloe!), the work of the Model Healthy Inquiry and Beat (Eating Disorders Assn) at London Fashion Week, the Dove campaigns, the Nivea campaigns, Marks & Spencers introducing size 12 mannequins (bring on the size 14 as well!). I thought people were beginning to wise up! I thought that FINALLY healthy, realistic beauty was being accepted, celebrated even. But then you get Allison Pearson in the Daily Mail bitching about the beautiful, curvy, healthy Princess Beatrice. She's backed up by Julia Hartley Brewer on Richard & Judy. And now I read in the Observer (08.06.08) that the dreaded size zero is once again flaunting its bones, & I shiver at the thought of how many young people will suffer. So I do the only thing I can do right now - shout about BODY GOSSIP. Size Zero threatens the health of young people by portraying a devastatingly dangerous form of beauty - women and men with their bones poking out their shoulders, young girls who no longer have their periods, people who are fainting, losing their hair, even DYING. BODY GOSSIP does the opposite. It celebrates the REAL stories about REAL people's BODIES- the beautiful bumps, the cute curves, the marvelous man boobs and the brilliant bums! If Size Zero is BACK - then Body Gossip needs to get BIGGER! Go to www.bodygossip.org and get involved in this extraordinary campaign! Write your story about your body, tell your friends, write on my Bebo page, find 'Sofa Sogood' on facebook and be our friend! LET'S START A BODY REVOLUTION!