Both of my best buds are just some skinny bitches. Always have been, always will be. But their eat anything and still stay small bods are just not happening for a lot of the rest of us, and even at my best weight I probably wouldn’t be as small around as either of them. Ever since I hit puberty I haven’t been able to break below a size 10 at my best, though I haven’t been much past a size 14 at my worst.

I always assumed, however, from everything I saw on TV and in Hollywood, that in order to be considered beautiful as a female, I had be half the size I am.

Now I’m not going to give you some bull about how I’m perfectly happy with my body, I’m not. I’d definitely like to tone up and lose that tummy flab, but on my own terms, and in the meantime is it too much to ask to at least feel comfortable in the not even overweight body I’m in? But I have to face the facts; I am an average sized girl living in a skinny mini world, and the days when my weight would be considered acceptable and even hot (i.e. Marilyn’s day) are long gone.

Or so I thought. All my life I’ve been told that the thinner you are, the happier you are, the richer you are, and the prettier you are. Well if that’s the case, then why is it, in iVillage’s 10 Stars Over Size 2, every single one of those women are grinning their phat faces off? Umm, maybe it’s because they’re all rolling in the big bucks, and not starving or cutting themselves up with surgery to do it.

Men have had their weight revolution in Hollywood with Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell and their whole gang. Well maybe it’s finally time for the ladies! As I breezed though the 10 lovely faces and bods of iVillage’s article, which ranges from Scarlett Johansson, to Sara Ramirez, to Queen Latifah, I felt as though I finally found the validation I had been looking for.

These women may want to be thinner, and if not they definitely feel the pressure to be, but they’re not obese, and they’re not anorexic. They are healthy, beautiful women. Regardless of whatever Meme Ross says about Jordin Sparks, these chikies are slammin’ hot and all have smoking careers. I know that it’s a relief to me to see stars who look like me, wearing clothes I wear, (well, and just wearing clothes at all), and are on fire in Hollywood without compromising their well-being or self esteem.

America Ferrera (one of the beautiful 10) definitely has something to smile about in this picture with her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars. She’s going to go eat after the premiere, while Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel look on in envy; they can only dream.