Healthy is the New Skinny

One of the sponsors of the Viva Fat Vegas conference last month was Healthy Is The New Skinny™. We were all given t-shirts and asked to style them up in our own way; cut them up, bedazzle, belt, whatever we wanted! I got a little over-zealous with the scissors and ended up with a sort of baggy halter top, but I teamed it with a cute skirt at least.


About Healthy is the New Skinny:
"Healthy Is The New Skinny™ is a T-shirt fundraiser to promote health as common goal for all women! This is not about a size. It’s about a movement.

Healthy is the New Skinny is about revolutionizing the values of the fashion industry. It’s about putting happiness and vibrant good health first and foremost. Generations of young women have assessed their own worth by how far they are from the ideal of unrealistic thinness. Healthy is the New Skinny believes in natural beauty, the kind that can’t be defined by a hip measurement, but is defined by fitness and joy." (if you want to read more, click here)


Guys, I really believe in this message and it's really an honour to take part. I'm done starving myself in order to fit into that cookie-cutter mold of how the fashion industry thinks I should look. I work out, I eat my five veggies a day, I'm still fat. But I'm also happier and healthier and that has nothing to do with my weight. Maybe this is all stuff I should talk about more on here, but the point I'm trying to get to here is that it's time for the fashion industry to embrace all shapes and sizes. We live in a world of diversity, nobody is the same, and that should be celebrated! (Personally I want it to go further than just seeing sizes 6-10 on the runway, but it's a good start!)

If you want to get involved, please go ahead and check out Healthy is the New Skinny on facebook. T-shirts go from S to 3X (They're generous though, I was sent a 3X and it was more like a dress on me before I cut it) and cost $20.

By the way, check out Stiletto Siren rocking her t-shirt over on her blog. I don't think any of the other conference girls have done theirs yet though.

As for the skirt? It's my new fave, but I'll tell you all about that in another post.