BEL MOONEY IMAGINES: Am I （麻薬）常用者d to attention-捜し出すing?
Dear Bel,
I am a 40-something mother-of-four with an enviable lifestyle and の近くに-knit family. But にもかかわらず these trappings of success, I can't seem to stop obsessing over my 外見. Yes, I've had a few little tweaks here and there - my 底（に届く） is still the talk of Los Angeles - and I'm no stranger to the 半端物 洗浄器／皮下注射／浣腸器 of Botox. I love the attention I get when I dress in outlandish outfits - the scantier the better, and it means I can still stand out の中で a （人が）群がる of younger women. But it's my 最新の look that's really got everyone talking - I squeezed myself into a corset that gave me a tiny waist and which some health 専門家s みなすd dangerous and a bad example to young women. But it kept all 注目する，もくろむs on me and I get such a buzz from that. Am I 罠にかける in a cycle of attention-捜し出すing?
KIM
Kim Kardashian made waves by squeezing into a corset with a 19in waist at the Met 祝祭 on Monday night
Who knew you were a 甘い old-fashioned gal at heart! Words fail even the most experienced wordsmith (meaning me) 直面するd by your 最新の image. I was… 井戸／弁護士席…gobsmacked, as they say. I 星／主役にするd at your Met 祝祭 picture on the 前線 of my Daily Mail - and then the other snaps (前線 and 支援する 見解（をとる）s) on Page 3. They made me dizzy - it was a sickening sensation of whirling 支援する through the centuries, to when it was the dream of every idle, 豊富な woman to have a waist as small as yours.
Your tiny waistline reminded me of classic Victorian fashion plates ? all bum-and-bustle at the 後部 and the skinniest, tightly corseted waist - just 権利 for the 支配的な, possessive 手渡す-（期間が）わたる of the big macho hunk every girl's supposed to want. Make no mistake ? that's what it's all about. And it's what I mean by old-fashioned, Kim. You (and those 提起する／ポーズをとるing, half-naked '星／主役にするs' at the 祝祭) 論証する that 21st century woman is a throwback!
明らかに your fans are worried about you. What was happening to your poor ribs? What about the 残り／休憩（する） of your 必須の 組織／臓器s? Can such squishing be healthy? You 明確に 設立する it hard to breathe ? in fact, you've 認める you had to have lessons for what you called 'an art form.' Yes, just breathing. I watched a ビデオ of you getting dressed up for the 祝祭 ? which meant, after the waist-cinching, 軍隊ing your feet into 非常に高い Perspex footwear made without heels, so the metal of the gown wouldn't catch. Shoes? No, they were hooves. That 詳細（に述べる） took me 支援する in time too ? to when 豊富な Chinese women could only totter, not walk. Do you know about them?
Your tiny waist is an example of extreme fashion. ? and so was foot binding. That was the disfigurement of young women that 原因（となる）d 1,000 years of broken bones. Girls 運命にあるd for a powerful husband had their feet bound tightly from childhood. The toes were 軍隊d over and 負かす／撃墜する に向かって the heel, over and over again, so that in the end the deformed feet were hideous stumps 押すd into little embroidered 'shoes' the size of purses. Men 設立する these helpless little stumps sexy. The point of the 拷問 was to 証明する the 女性（の） was so grand, so special she never had to walk anywhere.
She shocked onlookers in the tiny dress from Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano at the 主要都市の Museum of Art in New York
Daring to 明らかにする at the 5th 年次の Hollywood Beauty Awards in Los Angeles in 2019 with a 劇の cutaway gown by designer Thierry Mugler
Turning 長，率いるs at the Met 祝祭 the same year wearing a latex corseted dress also by Mugler, with beaded 水晶s that hung off her as if they were 減少（する）s of water
A bit more history, Kim. After the Chinese 1911 国家主義者 革命 footbinding was 無法者d. However, the practice did not truly end until the 創造 of the People's 共和国 of 中国 in 1949. Footbinding has been compared to other ways to 'perfect' the 女性（の） 団体／死体, such as corsets and 女性（の） genital cutting or mutilation. The message was that a rich, powerful man likes to own the 団体／死体 of a woman so disfigured she can't do anything apart from wait for him to arrive for sex, whether she wants to or not. Running away is not an 選択.
Which takes us 権利 支援する to you at the Met 祝祭 in your shiny Galliano dress, tottering, finding it hard to breath, and making the world gasp at your ridiculous waist. Are you 罠にかける in a cycle of attention-捜し出すing? Of course you are. And in truth, most sensible people don't care a 手早く書き留める. BUT, like me they might care a lot about the 影響（力） you have on young girls. I can't help wondering if you ever stop for a moment - in your endless 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of narcissistic pr eening and money-making publicity - to realise you're just another 囚人 of brainwashed, hyper-sexualised 開発／利用. It won't last you know ? but in the 合間 you 活発に encourage young women to think that only a distorted 団体／死体 is beautiful.?
