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The Spanish Aristocrat’s Woman
(posted 27 Mar 2008)
This book is now in stores and I’m very excited about it. I used my own body issues as the basis for Kara. She’s a size 12 girl in a size 2 world. I know size 12 isn’t fat and so does Kara but she can’t help feeling so big and not really a part of the high society crowd she was born into.
I really wanted to explore the fact that image is so powerful today and how we look no matter what our mothers told us when we were growing up…you know the thing about what’s on the inside is what really matters…looks are so important.
Everything I read in magazines and on tv make it impossible for a woman to just be happy being herself. Even if I have to run up to school to drop off forgotten homework pages I have to put on make-up and get dressed.
Do you feel this way? Is it possible today for a woman to just be happy in her own skin?
Kathy 