The Gok Wan Appreciation Society

Date: 03 January 2008 16:35:49

I have decided that every woman need a Gok Wan in their life....

For those of you who don't know he presents a show called How to Look Good Naked and as far as I am concerned I could marry him (I know he is on The Other Bus but that is besides the point!!). He takes women who have no self-esteem and he teaches them how to work with their body shape and to accentuate their good bits and minimise the bad bits, but better than that, he shows women how to absolutely love who they are. The thing I love about him is he absolutely loves women, of all shapes and sizes and he appears to have a particular fixation with boobs.

He made me realise so much that we all need those people who make us feel absolutely fabulous, who will be dead honest about what we are wearing and whether it suit us or not, but who will also help us to feel good about who we are. I am lucky, I have several people in my life who help me in this way (the majority of them are gay men let's be honest about it!) and I adore them all for it. I mean when I moved from living in a shared house with gay men to living on my own, getting dressed up for a night out became rather problematic. I was used to my friend Adam sitting on my bed advising me on what shoes I should be wearing etc etc.

I am sick to death of watching TV programmes which encourage women to pursue this Size 0 bollocks... whether that encouragement is overt or covert. I think women of all shapes and sizes should be celebrated and women of all sizes should be put forward as being role models. I am partly saying this for myself as one of my New Year's resolutions is to try and lose some weight, which might seem contradictory in the context of what I have been saying, but I need to do it for my health. I guess I am just trying to remind myself that I have tits and hips and my shape isn't going to change so my mind-set has to. Actually I am really quite fond of my boobs.. they are rather impressive and I like them like that!!! Being over a size 10 does not render you invisible... in fact it is the celebration of that diversity that I want to remember this year.

So, get out there and find yourself a Gok... someone who makes you feel fabulous because we all need that little bit of attention to help with our self-esteem.