In this social order of appearance and ostentation
Where everything is governed by physical appearance,
The most stubborn live in constant persecution,
Without having the right to the slightest reply.
Not fine enough to please the general assembly
Normal silhouettes are booed in fatal size;
The cult of extreme thinness reigns in the brains
No longer eating is the crucial issue for these young ladies.
Extensive diets and insane morals are the norm
For this crop of anorexics with formless bodies;
They hate rolls and love handles
Forbidding signs of a round aesthetic without glamour.
A hollow stomach and protruding ribs are not so stylish
This skeletal architecture praised to the skies is so repulsive;
To be horrified by the thickness of excess flesh that haunts them,
It is they who adorn themselves with this dangerous physique which enchants them.