Excerpt from O-ZONE: The New Sexy!
Shah Rukh and Kareena have no doubt redefined fitness and thinness with their newly-sculpted figures. But even as those show boys slog it out, coaxing out a few pectorals or a perfect six-pack and the show girls starve themselves to reduce to size zeroes; even as men become more sculpted and women bid goodbye to good ole curves, one wonders if the definition of sexy is changing? No, not really. Sexy today is still as sexy does. It’s not in their thinness or form, but in something beyond that their sexiness resides.
If the new Kareena is sexy, so should be the thousands of malnourished girls whose gaunt looks, sculpted cheekbones and protruding ribs have nothing to do with power yoga, soups and salads, but a lot to do with utter poverty and lack of a good, balanced diet. So what is it that makes Kareena sexy and not those girls? It’s her attitude, her confidence, the spring in her step, the knowing look in her eyes — her come-hither attitude.
If Shah Rukh Khan with his six-pack has upped his sex quotient, how does he compare with the original six-packers — millions of labourers, rickshaw pullers and farmers whose muscles have nothing to do with workouts and hormone injections, and everything to do with sheer physical labour?
Ask around and you will discover sexy is more a matter of perspective than of rules and definition. A quick poll had different men settling for a woman’s face, legs, curves, smile, body language or bust as a quotient of her sexiness. Women went for a man’s eyes, height, intelligence, looks, sense of humour, chivalry, body smell or six packs!
And yet, ask them if anyone had these attributes but no sense of style, no confidence, no attitude — and the sexiness goes out of the window! They quickly settled for attitude over everything else! Recently, nearly 75 per cent Americans polled said that sexiness is more an attitude than in the perfect physique. More than 76 per cent even went on to say that a woman can be sexy even she was a size 14 or larger!
You either are sexy, or you aren’t. There’s nothing you can do to your body to make you sexy; but there’s plenty you can do to your attitude and your mind that makes you sexy.
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Madhuram Says:
June 4th, 2008 at 11:36 pmVery thought provoking post Aneesha. I totally agree with you. Feeling good about ourselves will definitely make us look good too.