I like the Beautiful South words. I thought I knew them from somewhere. They did Perfect 10 too, which was a great hymn for women.
Think this mum is mad, mad, mad. This is the kind of story I read out to my DH at the breakfast table and mock relentlessly. DD (8) rolls her eyes at the stories of people choosing plastic surgery and worrying about the size of their tummies. She's VERY positive about herself and never picks on other people for how they look.
One of her friends is ALWAYS commenting on other people's looks, though. 'Oh, wasn't that lady fat?'. DD just looks embarrassed and shrugs it off. Same girl also said 'Did you think that lady had too much make up on?' about a young shop assistant with heavily made up eyes in Poundland.
We talked about it after her friend had gone and I told dd that people are meant to be all sizes and shapes and that some people choose to wear things we wouldn't want to...but that's up to them.
Surely the best thing we can give our kids is an understanding that no-one is perfect...that bodies come in lots of sizes and shapes and that what's inside is WAY more inmportant than what's on the outside?
This kind of thing drives me nuts..