Comments on: Want a leg up on being beautiful? It’s all about the thigh (gaps)

By: Girl

Girl — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:45:17 +0000

I have always wanted a thigh gap honestly. It, for me has nothing to do with celebrities but more that im doing the right thing with my body, by being active and working hard to gain it.
It is a little bit sad that this is an ideal….
But truth be told, I love my body, it’s me for crying out loud!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:44:12 +0000

I too didn’t realize thigh gaps were a thing until this blog post. I think I had casually glanced over something about it on Tumblr once but ignored it. I agree, Audrey—if that’s your natural body type, cool! If it isn’t, also cool. The point is that it’s just one more thing on the never ending list of things that women and girls should be striving for in terms of our appearances in order to achieve an ideal that isn’t realistic. It’s sad.

By: justme

justme — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:49:32 +0000

Until I read this, I didn’t realize that “thigh-gaps” were a thing. After looking at the photoshopped VS ad, my first thought was “so… bow-legged women are all the rage now? And girls are actually trying to achieve this look? That’s easy. Cut all vitamin C out of your diet and give yourself scurvy.”

By: Audrey Brashich

Audrey Brashich — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:39:28 +0000

Carrie, Marg and Jay: Thanks all for weighing (heh heh) in.

The whole Thigh Gap thing basically makes me think of the Maybelline slogan “Maybe She’s Born With It…. Maybe It’s Maybelline” cause when that came out, my internal response was “ARE YOU SH%(*^(&ING ME? Now you want us to hate other women because they were born with ‘better’ lashes’ than us?”

Same-Same applies to Thigh Gaps. You have them naturally? Great! Some people’s legs are like that. You don’t? Also great! Some people’s legs aren’t. But to make it a thing to care about, stress about, covet etc. That’s the part I take issue with…..

Again, thanks for reading and adding your thoughts to this conversation….

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:40:34 +0000

I am naturally thin. Sometimes too thin in my eyes. Yes, I have that thigh gap. I hate it though. I would rather my thighs be full and touch. So I think in this, just like anything else, people just want what they don’t have. I think being bigger, rather than over skinny, is much more attractive.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:49:06 +0000

Previously I had known that magazines photoshop images to show women as thinner, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen them creating an abnormal (by anyone’s standards) body shape to follow an unhealthy trend. Boggles the mind.

The only time I had ever seen thigh gaps in real life was on a drug addict who had anorexia – until a few months ago that’s the only time I had tight gaps full-stop, but now they’re turning-up on Pinterest and girls are asking how to get thigh gaps on forums…it’s so unbelievably creepy!!

By: marg

marg — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:02:24 +0000

Against my better judgement, I clicked through to the tumblr page you linked. It was sickening. So many of the girls in those pictures were clearly sick–deathly sick. How dare the owner of that site promote that. Clearly she’s never suffered through the living hell of an eating disorder. My sister has been to rehab 3 times for anorexia, had osteoporosis and gray hair by 26, and completely tore my family apart. I am essentially an orphan because of her.