Summer Recipe - Red Beetroot Salad Marilyn

Red beetroots, walnuts with French mustad dressing and endives! MMMM, says Pixi. And good for slimming! This is a recipe from one of the old restaurants in Hollywood where Marilyn Monroe and her filmstar pals used to go for lunch ...

Red Beetroot Salad MM

Endives
Red Beetroots
Walnuts
French mustard dressing - olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, French Dijon mustard, salt&pepper

1. Cook the beetroots in salted water until they are soft. Peel and cut them finely.
2. Cut the endives in finely - in "rings".
3. Chop the walnuts.
4. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Add the dressing. Stir.
5. Put the salad in the fridge for at least 1 hour before serving to let the different tastes blend.

Marilyn's Filmstar Breakfast ...

3 eggs, preferably lightly boiled, and milk. In bed. Pixi got evidence that Marilyn had breakfast, and now she feels better about rumours saying that Marilyn had eating disorders ...

Pixi also heard that Marilyn, she would NEVER get a job as a model or in the film industry today! Only if she put herself on a strict diet and slimmed down, she would have a chance!
The ideal "size" of women in the media has changed during the last generation, and today we expect our filmstars to be at least 1/3 slimmer than let's say 30 - 40 years ago.
Marilyn, who was "normal sized", was a size 14, Pixi says. And THAT, THAT IS FAAAAR to B&F in Hollywood today. Liz Hurley has commented this by stating that:

"I would kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe!"

Sooo - Marilyn was a real fatty dounut! According to Hollywood today. And she would have to slim away 1/3 of herself to get a chance in showbiz!

What a strange world we live in! contemplates Pixi. And this Liz Hurley, she seems to be a wacky bimbo of the worst kind. And I'm really happy that I haven't got any aspirations whatsoever to be a star. Or a model.
In fact, Pixi has met some of these Hollywood-stars in real life. Neurotic skeletons, was her nasty comment. And this, this is the LAST THING she wants to become!

Marilyn once said that ...

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

Pixi has been thinking about this during the summer when all she wanted was to go to the beach and play around in the water ... and the big SWIMMINGSUITPROBLEM came up EVERY DAY! Because when you feel B&F, big & fat, you don't want to show your body, Pixi says. And you do ABSOLUTELY NOT want to walk around in a swimmingsuit, or even worse, in a bikini.
When you feel B&F, you don't really like yourself. And you want your clothes to hide your body so that nobody will see, or think about, what your body really looks like. You dress in easy-going loose-hanging clothes and in dark colours, in black - "which makes you look slimmer", you think ... And this is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH! says Pixi!

But now she wants to dress in light colours. And in RED! And she DOES NOT want to feel B&F in her swimmingsuit. She dreams about a white bikini with red dots and she wonders how Marilyn kept herself fit, not getting B&F.

Marilyn - which where your tips&tricks?
They say you lived on champagne and sleeping-pills? Is this true? Or just evil rumours?

Marilyn - Her secret ...

Marilyn's secret was that she knew the meaning of GLAMOUR.

And that has nothing to do with how fat och thin you are. It's about something else, says Pixi. Your self-esteem, perhaps. And how you respect yourself ...
But Marilyn, she didn't have tons of self-confidence. Everybody says that Marilyn didn't believe in herself. Not very much, anyway.

But Marilyn loved the camera and she knew how to dress! And Pixi, she has a theory that you can be glamorous even if you are Big! If you want.
When you are Big, you have curves and shape. And THAT is much more beautiful than the "skeleton"-ideals you'll see on the catwalks. But the problem for us Biggies with breasts, tummy, bum and hips is that it is soooo difficult to find beautiful clothes!

And have you ever thought of this?

Most of the famous fashion designers are men, and they are often homosexuals. And which ideal do they have? Not female! If you look at the bodies of their models. Where are the models breasts? And hips? No, the models, they look as young boys in their bodies ...

And have you ever thought of this?
It is much easier to get the clothes nice looking on skinny, tall, "flat" bodies. If you have curves, the cutting of the clothes is much more demanding - a skill perhaps more and more forgotten among the fashion designers ...

And Pixi, she gets angry when she goes shopping and the clothes in big sizes are cut like sheets. Straight, without any cutting at all. And the clothes hangs as bags on the body. And when Pixi says this to the shop-assistants they say: "This is what people want!"
"No way!", says Pixi. We have to buy them because you don't have any other clothes for us. And that's because your people deciding what to take in to the shops are not really good at their job!

And therefore we Biggies look even more big because we cannot find clothes that suits us!
The designer designs clothes with a young boy's body in mind, not normal female bodies with breasts, tummy, bum and hips. The purchasing people at the shops are lazy and lack imagination. The clothing companies are only thinking of their profit and sell cheap clothes using a minimum of cloth made in Third World countries by seamstresses with the lowest of the low salaries.
And then, then they blame us, the Biggies, saying that it is our fault that we cannot find beautiful clothes because our bodies are too curvy!

Like the day I wanted to buy a new bra. I went to Twilfit, a company specialised in underwear with several stores here in Stockholm. When I didn't find my size I asked for help, telling the girl at the cashier that I was looking form a bra in size 85 D.
No, she said. We don't have that big size. You'll have go somewhere (where, she didn't know) and make a special order ...

So Pixi says - Boycott Twilfit! And all other stores that are Biggies-hostile! Pixi has been doing this for over a year now!