Lara Stone | Be Delicious Like An Apple

The day after Lara Stone won her case against French Playboy’s unauthorized use of her photos, I wake up to her fruity beauty once again. It would be easy to chastise DKNY for ther extreme focus on product here.

When Lara Stone first broke into modeling, the problem was her generous golden apples. She tells stories of size -2 stylists looking at her horrified, saying ‘you’re too fat’ for these clothes. The problem is that she has breasts in a fashion world that dumped healthy, - women for androgynous models with almost no breasts.

Both women are beautiful, of course, but Lara Stone’s breasts don’t exist only for men’s pleasure. Lara’s extreme body confidence and comfortable self-image being naked suggest an inner exhibitionist at heart.

Lara Stone inspires us to be a Delicious Woman. In challenging prevailing, fashion beauty norms, the Dutch model tells us it’s okay to eat the apple. We are women and most of us have Eve breasts, regardless of fashion designers liking them or not.

Some designers say breasts “get in the way” of the design they’re creating and so they prefer women without them. We say breasts of every size are a bountiful blessing for the human species.

Smart Sensuality woman Donna Karan has always loved a female shape, so buy Donna Karan or DKNY and celebrate being delicious. No, this is not a paid for commentary. I just like the imagery and message that real sensuality comes from making peace with apples.

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Monica Bellucci | Be A Juicy Pear

Yesterday’s post of Monica Bellucci’s Vanity Fair Italy photo and new art book brought lots of page reads.

Monica Bellucci also celebrates fruit, comparing herself to a pear.

‘Being photographed is a way of getting to know yourself. And I’m dying to know who I am, for better or worse.’ Admitting that she was sad when some of the images were taken, the Italian actress continues with her ripe pear metaphor, saying she is ‘perfectly ripe and mature’, ‘very sweet and succulent’, and living in ‘a kind of state of grace’. via AOC

What a lovely concept … living in a state of grace and celebrating sensuality.

I sense that both Lara Stone and a significantly older Monica Bellucci have made peace with their sensual identities. Neither woman is at war with her body.

To me they symbolize a schism between European and American women, although I must put the British lades in with the Americans except for Kate Moss.

For the 127th time at Anne of Carversville, I write that most European and many South American and African women are more in touch with their sensuality.

They have rejected the moralistic denunciations of sensuality as defined in the dictionary. I refer to a post I wrote about environmentalism and sensuality: For the Birds and the Bees | The importance of Sensuality in our Lives.

For some absurd reason a couple years back, I went to the dictionary for the definition of sensuality and found myself stunned.

The definitions of the beautiful word “sensual” could make the Pope blush:

1.    pertaining to, inclined to, or preoccupied with the gratification of the senses or appetites; carnal; fleshly.
2.    lacking in moral restraints; lewd or unchaste.
3.    arousing or exciting the senses or appetites.
4.    worldly; materialistic; irreligious.
5.    of or pertaining to the senses or physical sensation; sensory.
6.    pertaining to the philosophical doctrine of sensationalism.

Just now I’m thinking that mine was the Oxford English dictionary. I wonder if the French and Italians, or the Scandinavians and Brazilians have the same definition of sensuality. Columbus wrote that he was greeted in the New World by naked women wearing beautiful jewelry, who were not at all ashamed of their bodies.

Thanks Lara Stone and Monica Ballucci for helping me define Sensual and Superyoung, a concept of living in concert with our bodies and senses, and not at war with them. It’s no secret that I believe much of America’s obesity problem lies in this psychological terrain. Anne

More reading:

‘Mysteries of the Garden of Eden’ | History Channel | In Latin Apple Means Evil