In New York if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party women will flock to your side assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck a good physique and not too much imagination.
A great figure or physique is nice but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light but that of Christ.