New Obsession

Most of my heroines tend to be plus sized women. I very rarely give an actual size, as we each have our own thoughts on what plus sized means. For some of us it is a size 14, for some of us it is a size 24 or larger.

I like writing larger women because the average size in America is a size 14. Not size 0 or 2 or even 8. Size 14. That means more women are a size 14 than women who are sized like a model, or even like a professional athlete. So if I am writing a romance, something on the idea that each and every woman has a chance of, why not pick a “real” woman? Let me rephrase that, all women are real women. Let’s say a woman that is closer the average woman.

I have been watching a tv show lately, Drop Dead Diva. It is about a skinny pretty young model in her early twenties that dies, and when she comes back, she is in the body of a plus size 34 year old brunette lawyer. When I heard about it, my husband and I both were kind of like “that can go two ways”. We figured it would be really good or really insulting to plus sized women.

I have to say that I am impressed. I like the show. A lot. They seem to do a good job of presenting how a plus sized woman, and how a thin young woman would both view something. I can’t wait for more episodes of this show. I think I might just ask hubby to buy me season 1 for Christmas :).