Mindnumbing irritation

Okay, yes I'm going to complain and whinge. I live in beautiful Norway, and as I have grumbled previously it seems that, comparing it to the UK, Norwegians are obsessed with body beautiful. The above advert is just a slice of this body beautiful obsession. In the advert, three girls, thin, attractive young women enjoy a day after first spinning a bottle of the advertised water. Nothing wrong with being thin, young and attractive. What gets me is the scene after the three attractively thin and healthy young women go into the bakers and buy cup cakes they meet four, not quite so thin and apparently of differing lifestyles young women who for some reason end up chasing the thin young women. It gives the impression that if you are, 1) not thin, 2) have differing interests, really anything different from perky preppiness, 3) and don't drink this "magic" water, you aren't attractive, interesting or healthy. Perhaps I'm taking this all too seriously and all too personally. It is a personal peeve, pet hate etc for me, I am not nor am ever likely to be, model thin, perky and preppy. Even at my thinnest I'd never consider myself one of the "body beautiful". I do care about my health and regularly go to the gym and eat healthily, but I am also a vintage-ite and my body idols are people like Doris Mayday, Christina Hendricks, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors and Maureen O'Hara. You can be healthy, attractive, young and not supermodel thin/size 0. You can enjoy vintage styles, punk, grunge, androgenic looks and still be a sexy, attractive woman. So what is this obsession that seems to be prevalent of looking like you just landed from hollywood or LA? Okay, even there I don't agree that this should be the ideal. If you happen to look like that, good for you, but if you don't why should you be critisied or de-appreciated? Why should that be the ideal that we are all supposed to be trying to obtain? I miss the British thinking, that everyone is beautiful, super thin or not. I was told a quote of a famous Latin American soap opera star who said: "There comes a time when a woman has to decide to be thin or happy", doesn't that prove that making yourself stressed out about being superthin doesn't make you happy? In the UK you see normal sized women on adverts for Dove, maybe the UK hasn't always been the healthiest place on the planet. It has a bit of a reputation of eating badly, being excessively overweight and never working out or exercising and having terrible teeth. Too be honest, right now I'd quite happily be thought of as all of those things, and not thought of as shallow and body obsessed instead of killing myself at the gym everyday of my life and not daring to eat more than a lettuce leaf to obtain the "perfect body". Love yourself, eat healthy and exercise. I refuse to be pressurised into feeling inferior because I don't look like everyone else! I will keep complaining about it, because nothing changes without protest! Tell me how you feel.