Skinny. Fashion or Faux?

I remember back in 2006 when all I ever saw gracing the front pages of every celebrity gossip magazine, were super skinny size zero models. So after what feels like at least a year, the world, or at least Britain snapped back to reality and finally accepted a curve or two.
Skinny was over. The hourglass, the curves, anything but bones became fashionable.
Even Nicole Ritchie, possibly the biggest victim of this fad, gained a few much-needed pounds to her petite frame.

I don’t feel the need to sit here and spoon-feed you the details of this World Wide revolution as I am without a doubt sure you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Yet as I stood today in a line waiting to purchase myself a very intellectual book I didn’t in a million years think I would turn around and see what I saw. For standing right there in the middle of the Magazine rack were the dramatics I thought had disappeared forever.
‘Has skinny gone to far’ was the headline Heat magazine had chosen for the current issue.
I was completely caught off guard. I mean, really? Again? I for one thought it was just a passing phase. I have been proved wrong.

I find hard to comprehend how a woman who is beautiful, who has so much going for her, and who has a world of adoring fans can think that she looks beautiful when her arms are so thin you think a hug would snap her in two.

I indulged my curiosity and bought the magazine, but couldn’t help thinking that fashion is back to the beginning. Literally. Back to Zero.

So as I put my size eight jeans away and have a dig around for my size six ones instead I ask myself the question, am I going to fall victim yet again to the idea that skinny is pretty and that bones are sexy? I hope for my sake that the answer is no.