by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Do you know that Playboy magazine has sold out only twice in history: Once back when Marilyn Monroe posed for the center fold and in 1998 when Katarina Witt Olympic double gold medalist figure skater posed for the magazine? Now what this tells us is that this magazine, clearly a men’s magazine, has been at its’ most popular when it has featured real women and real looking women: Monroe was wonderfully curvy and womanly, Witt is an athlete with a beautiful, well defined musculature which is also something that is extremely attractive.
Nancy has done posts about the BBW (Big Beautiful Women) List and also about the spectacularly proportioned Serena Williams posing in all her nude glory to illustrate the point that women are beautiful and sexy in any all sizes and shapes and I wanted to do a post about nude athletes to illustrate the same point. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
I think quite arguably, there is a shift in perception with regard to the concept of beauty in the fashion industry at least as far as photographic modeling is concerned. The meaning of beauty is no longer as straitjacketing as it was and is now more inclusive, more broad (pun unintended) and more comprehensive, encompassing a wider variety of body types and sizes. However I didn’t think that this shift in perception had carried over to ramp modeling, where I felt that the hanger variety of model still reigned supreme. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
…To me and to you?
I am not a very religious person, I am not even sure that I believe in God in the sense of a super-being who creates and controls everything and wreaks retribution swiftly and brutally. I think I am more of a pantheist, who sees God in nature and think of nature as God. 
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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
One of the saddest and gravest fallouts of societal norms of what constitutes beauty and particularly the misconception that thin is beautiful, is that of eating disorders. Wiki defines eating disorders as “a compulsion to eat, or avoid eating, that negatively affects both one’s physical and mental health.” There are an estimated 5 to 7 % females in the United Stated who suffer from either Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
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f I were to pick the one item in my wardrobe that is most comfortable, most flattering, most versatile, then I would pick the kurta or the kurti (the shorter, hip length version). I suppose the western equivalent of that would be a tunic. Now a kurta can be as form fitting or as loose as you want or it could just skim your curves, for a tantalizing hint of what is beneath. The length can vary from barely hip length to reaching up to mid calf length. This is the other Indian garment (other than the sari) that a unique appeal. Continue Reading…
