I was intrigued to see that Miriam was just as concerned about her body as other girls; and it wasn't just the swimsuit comment: she described the girl that Randy was fooling around with as ugly.
I've believed that it's the constant, consistent messages we're receiving from many media that shape our beauty mind-set. To hear someone who's been exposed to far fewer "thinner is better" messages describe their perfectly healthy body as fat was really shocking. I'd just assumed that any body resulting from daily manual labour would be pleasing to them.
