A Better Perspective on Beauty

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You’ll never look like the cover of a magazine. And I don’t think you should want to, either. Most of those models are not healthy. A healthy body mass index (BMI) is between 18.5 and 25. Spain has banned models with less than an 18 BMI (considered dangerously underweight) from their runways. Unfortunately, the United States hasn’t followed their lead! Here’s how today’s sex and beauty symbols score:

Heidi Klum          18
Elle MacPherson   17.3
Paris Hilton           16
Nicole Richie       17
Kate Moss       15.7
Glisel Bundchen   17.4
Lily Cole         15.6

These girls are starving themselves to be beauty icons. You shouldn’t desire that.

Want a better perspective on your beauty? Look past the covers of magazines and check out this great song by Jonny Diaz. Watch closely as this mother/daughter photo shoot is manipulated in Photoshop. True beauty isn’t found there!

Sources: The Independent, September 24, 2006; styledash.com, retrieved August 15, 2008

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Dannah Gresh

Dannah Gresh is completely in love with her chocolate labradoodle, Stormie. (But just for the record, she doesn't like dog kisses.) She's been married to Bob for over twenty years and loves that he brings her "freshly sharpened bouquets of pencils." She's the mom to Lexi, Autumn, and Rob. Oh, and she co-wrote Lies Young Women Believe with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth!

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