Can I just take some time to vent about how society tells women – average sized women – that they are too large?

To begin, I would like to start by saying that I am not a “large” woman. I am barely 5'2" and I weigh maybe 175 pounds on a bad day. In my opinion, my breasts are probably a little larger than what is proportional to my height, my stomach is mostly flat, and my thighs have plenty of room to grow.

However, I recently went clothes shopping where I was told that my breasts (and believe me, I have friends with much larger girlies) were too large to fit into Victoria’s Secret bras! That’s right – someone told me that my breasts were larger than a DDD. To be fair, it’s only my left breast that couldn’t shop at my favorite lingerie store any more – the right one fits perfectly fine in a DDD. But I was completely taken aback! I couldn’t believe that someone of my size could be told I was too big to shop in America’s “sexy” store when I’m the sexiest woman I know!

A little hurt and offended, I spent some time crossing the mall to another clothing store. I didn’t even look at American Eagle, Express, or any other name brand clothing knowing that I wouldn’t find anything to fit me there. When I made it to Old Navy, I picked through a small pile of clothes that I were "my size". What am I, you ask? A small? A medium? NOPE - AN EXTRA LARGE!

This experience really made me ask myself: what kind of messed up society do I live in where I am an extra-large? How messed up is society that even though I work out every day, eat better than most Americans, and maintain a healthy weight – I am considered to be “larger than life”? What are we trying to tell women? That “average” or “medium” size is 4'11" with size B boobies and a flat stomach? I don't know about you, but the world that I live in does not have women that look like that.

Maybe I’m just rambling, I don’t know. But I just don’t think it’s fair that I have to live in a world where my size is considered extra-large. I still think of myself as a “fun sized” human – barely tall enough to reach the top shelf at a grocery store. Why do we let society shrink women?

In conclusion, I am human - I probably spend about 25 percent of my life hating my body. The other 75 percent of the time, I hate society for making me feel like I should hate my body. I know that I am beautiful. Why is society trying to tell me that I am not?