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I saw her on TV recently. Apparently she's down to doing some kind of reality TV show and she was being interviewed. I wouldn't exactly call her fat, but she's certainly not the emaciated waif she was when she was young.

Lucille

She should be drowned for the craze she brought on, it's had far reaching consequences.

She was young. It's not her fault. It was the guy behind the camera and her managers which promoted her and the look. It's also the idiot public that bought into it. Lordy, we certainly don't like to take responsibility for our culture. Point the finger right back at "us", except for the few of us who have fought back through the years and refuse to get caught up in this "fashion". Including the "fashion" of wearing slips and calling it hip. First it was underdrawers hanging out from the back of men's pants. Now it's women wearing their slips as a fashion statement - usually - but no always - over a tank top.

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A town on LawnGuyland full of short Italian immigrants. The men were

You should've come to visit. You could've felt tall for a day. :)

I lived in a town on LawnGuyland too, but all the way at the other end. We called it Brooklyn. lol

Mine was a mixed neighborhood of Italian and Jewish men and women, but few of them were that short. I know people have been getting taller and heavier since then. so I suspect you're thinking they were shorter than they really were. Maybe because you were tall and felt different. My family was considered short, but the men were all more than 4'11" and I think maybe you're exaggerating just a bit.

I thought everyone was a giant when I was little, because I was so tiny and everyone towered over me. Now I realize that they were normal height and I was the odd one.

Lucille

Nope. I was this height at high school graduation, and I was almost the end of the line when we were in height order. When they were putting us in height order, Sue and I commented that the shortest girl was more than a foot shorter than we were (and, no, she was not an early graduate). Almost all the boys in the class were shorter than I, too, by a good 6-8", which would put them at 4'11" to 5'1".

By our 20th reunion, they hadn't gotten any closer to my size.

My grandmother was 5'0" and even she was taller than most of the adult Italians in town.

Oh no middle school - I don't envy you in the least!

Cheryl

Anyone remember our "Twiggy"? She always looked like a huge eyed skeleton when I was young. Everyone wanted to look like Twiggy. The silly thing was that I was always so slim as a teenager I was teased for THAT! You can`t win!

I was a bit overweight in my forties and fifties, and now am only about 12 lbs more than I was as a teenager, but still think of myself as overweight - but I don`t really care! I`m a lot healthier for being thinner (in fact I`m now wondering if I`m still diabetic - my blood sugars have gone down so much that they`ve reduced my medication quite a lot and it`s STILL too low first thing in the morning!).

Pat P

Remember her ? She has a lot to be blamed for in my book ! Yes, we mentioned her, Lucille had just seen her on television and apparently she has put on weight now, but not so much she is fat.

Here's her official website. I think she looks fabulous.

Well, some of us were skin and bones without doing anything special to cause it. I was so active that I could (and often did) eat 5000 calories a day and still stay 20 pounds below the bottom number on the height/weight charts. I wasn't trying to be Twiggy, and I certainly wasn't anorexic/bulimic. Still, because I achieved that look effortlessly, I was blamed for encouraging others to try it.