
Gap thigh or Gap tooth? The question that was recently brought to my attention. which one is better? The question rattles around in my brain for a brief moment as if actually matters, which when comes down to it, it doesn't. Model trends really do storm the world in a somewhat terrifying way. When a media image tells us something is beautiful enough times we believe it (the next one will be big caterpillar eyebrows, mark my word). Both of the above, I don't have. My thighs are very good friends, even best freinds, some would call them lovers they rub so much, and well my teeth for a brief moment from ages 7 to 9 were gapped, like my Grandmother's and I was subsiquently called bugs bunny by cruel youths at school, but I grew out of it, and was greatly pleased when I did.
Then at the age of about 14 I discovered beauties like Venessa Paradis, Lara Stone, Lauren Hutton and so on, and thus resented my perfect, then white, braceless pearlies. I wanted that gap back. The infamous, glamourous, big lipped, smoking, red stained gap to go along with my cascading hair and Topshop body-con. But the gap was irretrievable. For good. There was no way I was getting it back. Yet I actually thought about this. Toss and turned about this. The impressionable mind of a very mature 14 I'll have you know, was effected. Along side this I did not either presses "The Gap" the words on every guys lips, and not the one in models mouths either. No i'm not talking about the successful 1970s US chain store made famous by practical jeans and chinos. I'm on about the gap between big hipped or or girls with eating disorders thighs. Yes that gap. We've all looked on at it dreaming, wanting, maybe even resenting. Yet at one point these were called "child bearing hips" even a sign of peasantry. "Well bred girls have narrow hips, no gap" as a certain 60 year old ex-model I know states. So why has it become some sort of statement to be proud of? When really its just another type of body. Thats all. End of. It's not a bad thing or a good thing, its just a thing like brown eyes or blue eyes, its personal preference that makes you decide which is nicer, or more beautiful. As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That's how I feel about all the gaps. Whether it be a gap in your brain or a gap between your legs. Why bother wasting time thinking about irrelevant questions? You could, like many beauty queens be contemplating world peace. Whatever you have or don't have, it doesn't matter. Stay weird. Stay yourself and that will help you stay beautiful. To someone at least.

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