cellulite is a part of nature. do walruses and sea lions feel ashamed for having a little fat? most women have cellulite, even supermodels and people like me who aren't considered chubby by any means. supposedly less than 20% of women have no signs of it (unless you twist their skin and voila!). people who really love women as they are, naturally, aren't threatened by a few dimples in the skin. the cosmetics industry invented cellulite as a so-called health condition or deformity when in fact it probably helps us to sit better. this is all a scam. it's not a problem, people. our bodies are not sleek machines. let's get used to it and not make the next generation of young women feel ashamed of having substantial, strong bodies. we're entering the post-industrial revolution and need to honor our bodies as they come, instead of trying to craft them like some steel-and-glass-and-nanofabric speedcars. this attempt to control nature, on a grand scale, has raped and pillaged the planet. living greener means reinventing our outlook, which starts at home in our own bodies. and let's leave women's bodies alone, especially. haven't they endured enough over time? don't they deserve more honor? ironically of course, at the same time, I wish I had no cellulite so I could prance around in miniskirts shamelessly and not keep tugging at my bathing suit. the funny thing is that both men, and women who sleep with women, relish when you as a woman when you expose your flesh in any way, cellulite or not. studies show that men find women more attractive the more skin they show. it's about the overall package and confidence, as more europeans know. vive la difference! let women have their sexy cellulite and men have their unbridled body hair or seasoned balding patterns. does a hillside feel ashamed of its undulations, or a prairie get embarrassed over its windswept grasses? sadly, I've totally bought into the b/s myself. but I'll be damned before I spend money feeding the lying psychopathic beauty industry by trying to fight the inevitable shape of my 21st century work-at-a-desk-job but ride-a-bike-to-work body. take the money you're about to buy on anti-cellulite cream and help fund some burn victim's plastic surgery instead.

this is so well written (except for one sentence) that I'm about to go get me a fat girl to play with... maybe she will let me surf her body.

I am a stick thin, 2x4 figured girl with my dandy little fat deposits on my thighs and butt. YAY for accepting womens' bodies as they are. How wonderfully idealistic. Truth is if it wasn't cellulite, it'd be something else. I don't know a single person who is content and happy with their body. Thin, fat, tall, short, white, brown, purple... no one likes EVERYTHING about themselves. In the pursuit of personal perfection (which is impossible) we all have purchased products of one kind or another. People buy special lotions to change their skin instead through diet, people who think they're too pale buy tanners and go to booths. What is the difference? If that little jar of cellulite reducer makes you feel more confident and braver in your bikini, isn't that a small price for a better self-image? Women haven't come as far as we'd all LOVE to believe. Instead of wearing clothes to enhance our busts, we're inflating them and injecting poisons in our bodies to avoid wrinkles. Instead of muscular & fit or even voluptous, we idealize thin and twiggy. If you're so against the products don't use them. I don't. But don't try to bully/preach people out of their comfort zones and whatever little item makes them happy. To each his own and mind your own business.

The media is the media. When it all comes down to it they just want to sell stuff to make money. Making something bad is just another marketing technique. Think of one of the first women the media presented as beautiful.. Marilyn.. she wasnt thin, her legs touched in the middle and I bet she had cellulite! Many girls are worried about their boyfriends but I believe most girls are worried about the opinion of their girl friends more. To start repairing this shame girls have made cellulite into we as girls should all stop critizising other girls we dont know on their problems.. For example...My friend always says, about a girl she hates, that her strech marks are sooo ugly.. I too have strech marks so she indirectly insulted and made me ashamed of myself. Lets stop picking and comparing!

that the older I get, the more comfortable I become in my skin; the deeper the maturity level - the deeper the self-appreciation and self-love.