The Swimsuit

Build your bikini body, have a swimsuit body, make your body conform, blah blah blah. We've all heard and seen the ads, we're supposed to go on super diets and fitness regimes to wear a swimsuit before summer. DON'T YOU DARE PUT ON A SWIMSUIT WITHOUT LOSING UMPTEEN POUNDS! Is what it's really getting at.


I don't get it really. I'm there to swim, soak up some sun, play with the kiddies, what difference does it make how much I weigh? I guess it's an affront to the eyes of people who are very heavily invested in one notion of beauty, but really, those people can suck it up and make that great effort to turn their heads elsewhere.

I know so many women who spend years, lifetimes doing everything in their power avoiding doing activities they enjoy because they don't have "the body" for it. I'm of the mind that if you can do it and you enjoy it, then go for it, you don't have to look a certain way to do it.

That said, if you're like me and enjoy glamming it up a bit, there's no saying that there is a size restriction on that. There are millions of great swimsuits and bikinis that will look great on women of any size. You don't have to be a size 4 to enjoy the beach, pool or party and you definitely don't have to be a size 4 to look great at doing so.

Trying to glam it up a bit.