Consistency

[jmc_bks]

I know, consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind according to Emerson. But I've noticed something in Blue Bloods that is really irritating me. The author goes to great pains to point out that Mimi Force has a size twenty-two waist and size ten feet....but later in the book, Mimi muses about her metabolism and how she stays so thin and yet eats all of the whipped cream frosting and cupcakes she wants, and drinks like a flapper just before Prohibition. And even later, she is deemed to be an excellent candidate to be a professional model, having the perfect figure. Now, I'm not saying that larger women can't be models, but larger models are the exception not the rule. How is she a perfect model size, but still a 22 and still very thin? Did something get changed in the editing process? Inquiring minds want to know.

Comments

[sarahf.livejournal.com]

22 inches, per chance? But then, that's super tiny. ::shrugs:: Yeah, a size 22 is not super-model thin. Not a high metabolism.

22"

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I thought 22 inch waist also, and that I just misread, but the sentence reads size not inch.

It isn't a big deal in the world of things, just one of those little nit-picky things.

Re: 22"

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I think it was an editor/typo thing. I didn't catch that when I read it - I just knew she was skinny. But why are her feet so humongous when I dont remember her being tall enough to warrant that? You would think she would have petite feet to go along with the rest of her petite features....

~Jay

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe its a jean size - although I didn't know they made them that small. My BFF is 5' 8" and thin as a rail and where's a 26 jean.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh jeesus = that's wear's not where's. Sigh.

Jane

[miladyinsanity.livejournal.com]

22 inch waist? I don't think that was what Melissa De La Cruz meant either. I'm short and very slender, and even if I had a flat tummy, I wouldn't have a 22 inch waist.