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Ladies!
Its time to panic about getting into all those revealing summer clothes!
• Count Calories or Carbs or Points or Something!
• Work on Those Abs!
• Just 30 Minutes a Day!
• Banish Cellulite!
And while you are at it:
• Why Aren’t Your Children Perfect?
• Your House is Cluttered and Yet Needs More Stuff!
• Transform Your Ugly Yard into a Cottage Garden!
• Look at All Those Wrinkles in Your Face!
• By the way, Your Hair Needs Improvement Too!
Enjoy these outrageous desserts in case
our no-fail diet plan actually fails…
Tired of all these mixed messages?
Here’s a simple one instead:
Girlfriends, just do the best you can with what you’ve got.
Do you have a simple message that you use to keep you sane?
Please Share!
PS: Check out the Holiday Issue of LadyLand
(an imaginary magazine that I create for my own amusement…and yours!)
And check out this great related article on Body Image and Shame over at PsychCentral, featuring this very same illustration (with permission of course!).
YES. omg I love these. Please do more of them as the season’s change.
Oh, I love this Elizabeth! Very funny, and so sadly true. Love Lady Land, too. I second JeninCanada’s wish for more.
So true! Love it!
I just have to laugh every time I see the latest women’s magazines come out – so true!
“My security is not in my appearance but in the One who made me.” That’s what I say to myself!
Those magazines are dangerous though, aren’t they?!
Thank you for sharing your positive message!
Elizabeth funny, i like it very much……………so funny.
Love the summer issue!
Stopping by from SITS! You hit the nail right on the head with this!! Love it!
I love this-it could easily be a real magazine! I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees the irony of all the dieting advice, the size 2 models, AND the fattening recipes all on one cover!
I’m visiting from SITS, happy Saturday!
“I’ve been called worse by better” immediately comes to mind
Thanks for a truly funny post and thanks for stopping by for SITS Saturday Sharefest!
I would buy the actual magazine for a laugh too, if you published one I can only imagine what you would write!! Love it.
Hi there.
Enjoyed your post.
Stopping by from Saturday SITS fest to say hello.
Have a great weekend!
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Love it! Contradictory messages are the lifeblood of women’s magazines! keep em coming!
Negative & contradictory messages in womens’ magazines are exactly why I canceled my subscriptions to Shape, Self, Womens’ Health, etc. Thanks for a great post that illustrates the absurdity they are printing.
[...] For starters, please enjoy the brilliant illustration above from the amazing author, illustrator and body diversity crusader Elizabeth Patch. I’m so honored that she let me use this image. Thanks so much, Elizabeth! Be sure to check out Elizabeth’s post on mixed messages from women’s magazines. [...]