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For those of you with scrawny necks, and shoulder blades that protrude noticeably — spots which the too-thin Loretta Young needs to round out — there are diets and exercises to build you up in no time.
Ann Dvorak is another one of those all-around skinny girls who could gain, if she went about it in the right way. Norma Shearer, on the other hand, has to work to keep slim — especially her waistline and arms.
RIGHT SMACK at the beginning, let me say this : you can have a good figure. You bet your sweet life you can. Barring out-and-out defects of bone structure and serious glandular disturbances, there is nothing that can keep you from being slim, graceful and decently proportioned. It will take time, determination, honesty (with yourself) and hard work. But, babies, you can have it and I'm not telling you any poetic beauty folderol when I say it. But it's up to you. What are you going to do l Be lazy and stay fat ? Whine and stay thin? Or work and be beautiful? You're going to be beautiful? That's the stuff! And Sylvia will help you.
This month, I want to discuss really stubborn cases : tlie fat girl who has tried, honestly, to lose and can't ; and the thin girl who has tried, honestly, to gain and can't.
On these pages, are the pictures of four Hollywood stars whom I shall use to illustrate certain points in this article. Norma Shearer and Carole Lombard have had considerable difficulty in their lives in keeping off excess weight. Norma's trouble is a tendency to heavy upper arms and a thickness through the waist. Carole's trouble is a tendency to heavy thighs and derriere. Ann Dvorak and Loretta Young have had difficulty in putting on
weight. Ann is thin all over. Loretta must fight against that gaunt look around the collar bones and a too-thin neck. I'm going to take up more extreme cases than these girls illustrate, too.
OH, YES, I've heard all the excuses ! I don't want to be too hard on you, but, truly, some of the reasons women give me for not improving their figures make me so mad I could pop !
"Fat runs in our family," is a prize one. So ! Your Aunt Tabitha looked like a blimp . . . therefore you must look like a blimp. "I have a weak heart ... I can't exercise." If you really have a weak heart — if a doctor has told you that you have a weak heart — you can't, of course, play tournament tennis or run the 100-yard sprint in nothing flat. But you needn't eat mashed potatoes, need you? "I'm anemic — I can't diet." Oh, yes, you can, baby. Yes, you can ! Leave it to mama. I'll give you a diet — right here in this article — just as soon as I get a couple of statements down on paper that I don't want to forget.
First of all, let's take a really extreme case : the girl who is just plain fat. Not merely hefty or bulgy in spots, but fat. She thinks she {Continued on page 92)
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