I debated whether to put this under the Come Here So I Can Smack You heading, but I decided it was too sad. Like many of you, I am shaped a lot like my mother. And I am OK with that. It is who I am. Thank God I am not famous enough to have paparazzi and the attention of The Daily Mail. I always felt sorry for Sarah Ferguson. I was once the fat daughter-in-law (my former sister-in-law was a former model and ballerina) and it was never fun to be the ugly duckling in comparison to the beautiful swan. I thought I understood how she might have felt when she got crap for not being as perfect as Diana.
So, now, here we are, a generation later, and it is Sarah’s daughter who gets the crap. Very sad that we can’t let people decide for themselves whether they are happy with their body.
Bea, beach bodies and the thorny problem of the Mummy gene …
Last updated at 23:49pm on 29th April 2008
Comments (21)Princess Beatrice emerges beaming from the Caribbean Sea beside her boyfriend, Dave Clark, and the first impression is how in love they seem.
The second thought is how comfortable this comely 19-year-old is in her own skin – so at ease with her curves that she’s happy to be photographed in a skimpy blue bikini.
Thirdly, it hits you that a young woman can run, she can hide, but there’s no escaping The Curse Of The Mummy Gene.
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Curvy: Fergie in St Tropez in 2001. Beatrice in St Barths this week
November 26, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Let us be clear—these are thighs of normal women. We’ve been so conditioned to stick-women that these thighs seem enormous by comparison. Shame on you for contributing to the media tyranny over the war zone—that of women fighting to be accepted for their minds, talents and personalities BEFORE their appearance.
November 26, 2008 at 2:46 pm
@ShabbyDoll: I think you missed the first paragraph where I mentioned that this was unkind and unfair and that everyone should be able to be OK with whatever size they are.
December 12, 2008 at 6:51 pm
NOT NORMAL, CHUNKY, now we are being reverse conditioned due to people being oversensitive, that this is ‘ normal. She needs to lose 25 pounds of thigh.
March 7, 2009 at 7:35 pm
What gets me is the assumption that men don’t like the mummy gene. We like hips and curves. It’s the women who seem bothered by them. I love them.
October 5, 2009 at 8:45 am
ouch… if they’re happy with the way they are then i don’t think it’s any of our business to find fault in them..
i think the reason why we like to criticize others is because of our own insecurities..
but in a healthy living standpoint, it would be best for them to lose some thigh weight… just so you’re in the healthy side of things.. ;p
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Kelly
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