My short story "The Beautiful Move In Curves" will appear in the Xcite anthology "Ultimate Curves" to be released in May, 2009. This book is about big, beautiful women and the men and women who love them.
My title comes from the saying "In life, as in art, the beautiful move in curves", by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton. That's the same Bulwer-Lytton who wrote "It was a dark and stormy night". Here is a blurb about "The Beautiful Move In Curves":
Olivia Taylor is a gorgeous and large woman who is angry over an article about "butterbodies" - women with beautiful faces "butterbody" leaves something to be desired. This is the flip side of "butterface". The idiot who wrote the article called Salma Hayek a "butterbody." If some moron can diss Salma Hayek, what does that say about Olivia? She cannot be in a bad mood before attending the SF/F convention, especially since she's going to meet Jeremy, a gorgeous hunk of a man several years her junior. There is more than enough woman in Liv to please several men, and she has the spunk and sex appeal to prove it.
Why are women bombarded every day with messages telling them that they have to be the size of a toothpick to be considered sexy? That "butterbodies" article in my story about sexy plus-sized women isn't something I made up. It's for real, and it's idiot author really poked fun at Salma Hayek for gaining weight, accusing her of having a beer belly when the woman just had a baby. He picked on lots of larger women, including Liv Tyler, Salma Hayek, Kate Winslet, and Tyra Banks. The article originally appeared at Spike.com, and I guess Spike got so much ugly mail about it that it had to take the article down. I read it and flames burst from my eyes, since I took umbrage to that article. I'm glad to see that due to the outcry over it that it has been removed.
There are plenty of heavy, sexy women out there. Some of them are Pam Grier, America Ferrera, and Kirsten Vangsness (who plays sassy and sexy Penelope Garcia on TV's "Criminal Minds"). Ferrera made the "Butterbodies" list, and you may know her from the hit TV show "Ugly Betty" and the hit movie "The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants". These are vibrant, sexy, and sassy women who eat just as much as their anorectic model sisters - they just keep their food down.
I'm tired of seeing normal looking women - women who look like most of us - called fat because they can't fit one leg into a size 0 pair of jeans. The book "Ultimate Curves", which will be released by Xcite in May, celebrates plus-sized women in all their glory. My story "The Beautiful Move In Curves" appears in that anthology.
Keep an eye out for more details about this fun and sexy read that comes out in May from Xcite. I'll keep everyone updated on my blog: Elizabeth Black - The Countess - Blog
7 comments:
I agree. One actress who was recently called fat is a size 6. If that's fat, then what does that mean for the rest of us?????
Stick-then women are not hot. Most men like a bit of curve rather than the heroine-chic model look. At least that's what my hubby says, and I choose to take his word for it. :)
I am a 9, and I am fat-fat-faaaat
DX
And I'm a butterface AND a butterbody, so you girls have NOTHING to complain about on your body's end...'least you don't have calves thicker than your neck.
Hell, my brother Allan has a 56" hip. NO, I AM NOT KIDDING. But the rest of him is stick thin.
Hips and boobs mean curves, ladies. You don't have to have a belly too. I mean, there's no problem with having a flat belly and nice abs. Doesn't make you look like a prepubescent boy...matter of fact, makes you look better as a whole.
My point is, **maintain** your figures if you're so happy about them. Don't let them go to pot like mine did...because believe you me, they WILL if you eat American junk.
I'm so glad that someone has given BBB's (Big Beautiful Babes) a voice or presence in romantic/erotic fiction. The stereotype of what is attractive just doesn't work anymore. As a member of the BBB community, I'm happy to see this more often. Nothing is more irritating to me than to hear some size 2 twit on TV saying how she has to lose weight to be accepted. If you feel the need to lose it, fine, but my doctor says I'm very healthy and if HE doesn't think there's a problem, why should someone who doesn't know me be my judge? *getting off my soapbox now, before I break it*
Nancy G, AKA josh_granny
Sterotypes of what is or is not hot are garbage. I happen to think that Angelina Joline is someone that I would pass and not look back. I enjoy a woman who has curves BUT a personality is the icing on the cake. A woman just like a man comes in a total package. If you like that package then who gives a flying rats posterior what is said. I don't follow fashion and love a woman in blue jeans.
I don't happen to agree with Hollywood with their ideas of what is hot and what is not. The people who happen to think that size zero is hot better look at the anatomy of what happens to underweight women. Several things including the gallbladder starts to malfunction. So there IS good things to be said about healthy women.
OK, I'm finished. Thanks for the interesting topic of conversation.
Thank you for such a great post. Like you, I'm getting fed up with the comments about people who aren't a size 0 or 2 are fat. I was extremely annoyed with the uproar over Jessica Simpson's pictures of her as a size 8.
Being a BBB I can honestly say that I am totally enjoying my life. I can't say I ever really hated my body. I've learned to make adjustments but I can do everything the thin people I know do. When I see all the women at work constantly dieting I go crazy. Instead of eating a proper, nutrious diet, they will starve themselves all day at work with processed foods and diet aids. I started a few years ago getting processed foods out of my diet and making food from scratch. It tastes so much better and I know what's in the food. I walk home from work every night. My doctor is constantly on me to lose weight but when she runs all the blood work, my tests come back in the normal range. I'm healthy and I like to eat. Life is short, eat dessert first. I enjoy life and good food is part of it. It's time we stop listening to the media (who often have no sense of reality) and live our lives to the fullest regardless of our size.
The world has space for all different people and yet maintream media would have us believe otherwise. Mae West and Marilyn Monroe were beautiful women but now would have been pressured to fit the new ideal. Women are meant to have curves and need to flaunt them.
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