The media likes to act as if size zero is offensive. Quite honestly, it's only wrong to be size zero if it's wrong for you. There are certainly a very small percentage of girls who are, at a given point in their lives, naturally size zero. With vanity sizing at play, it's not so hard to imagine this. We've known such girls personally: girls with the metabolism of hummingbirds and the physiques of gazelles; girls who play hard and then eat and eat until their tummies are full, and yet still get comments about how they must be bulimic. This may sound as though we're sympathizing that their diamond shoes are too tight, but these comments are just as damaging to the psyche as calling out a woman's thunder thighs.

But clearly, these girls are not the target audience of the size zero epithets. It's the dozens upon dozens of girls fighting their own genetics with extreme tactics in order to emulate our willowy sisters. A 5'3" stocky cheerleader type is never going to diet her way into a 5'10" Elise Sewell frame. It doesn't matter how many times she passes up the Twinkies, it's just not going to happen.

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Maybe it's the idea of the number that incenses the media so much. It's zero. Nothing. Ceasing to exist. They just cannot help themselves from sensationalizing it. For instance, the headlines over an Alicia Keys interview said that she felt size zero "was wrong." Except that if you read the interview, what the sage Ms. Keys really said is that "women should appreciate what they have rather than hurt their bodies to achieve unrealistic weight goals."

Word, Alicia, word. It's an important distinction to make from the media's summation of the inherent wrongness of being wee.

Jennifer Lopez probably said it the best. "I couldn't ever be a size zero. I just don't see how I could get down to that size and still be healthy.  It wouldn't work. I have a butt, I have boobs and I have a woman's curves."

Thank goodness, as a world without the unbelievably hot hindquarters of one Ms. Jenny From the Block is not a just world. Stay gold, J.Lo, stay gold.