Of course I wouldn't expect you to admit to anything but you were the one who said, "Why hadn't she just let herself go in the second picture" - which would be obvious to a sound mind - that she HASN'T.
(You kind of baffle me as most men aren't pro-Anorexia in such a shameless way).
While here, she looks a shadow of herself. Bones sticking out, muscle-mass wasted and much less than normal, smaller breasts than what's natural to her (she's a very big girl by nature). And she looks neither healthy or happy.
And, now, only a sick mind would think of this as "Having let herself go". How in heaven's name? She's perfectly healthy, looks like she gets daily exercise, not a gram of excess fat and firmer than most females could hope to be at any point in their lifetime. Just with her naturally larger bone-built/muscle-mass (tall women/models as her also tend to have naturally large muscle-mass).
(You're idea of "letting herself go" while she barely has a minimum layer of fat and is as slim as she can be with her naturally large (in terms of bone-structure and muscle-mass) built.
She looks as perfect as she can here, for her natural built, she can barely get any thinner without her body starting to eat her own muscles. So even if it's not to your personal taste, why not just move onto someone with a more delicate built, like someone like Brigitte Bardot or Vanessa Paradis, who don't need to starve themselves to live upto your ideal, instead of asking for the imposible?
As to going out of my way to faind faults with other women, you're well off track. More than anything I celebreate female beauty, that's why I post pictures of exceptionally beautiful women, which most females wouldn't enjoy. Like the exquisite model you could only notice for her imperfect teeth (so not much ability to appreciate female beauty to begin with). While many women, like my sister, who's pretty enough, like an 8, only seems to feel displeasure being confronted by other beautiful women.
I just don't have this problem, so I'm not sure what their problem is, but guess envy runs pretty deep. I guess some women just can't bear being reminded there are women more beautiful than them in the world, but I'm not envious like that, I'm just happy for them and enjoy their beauty (yes, this is also possible). While most women DISLIKE seeing pictures of women more beautiful than themselves - but why be so insecure?
I just appreciate them like a work of art and like to study them in an objective way, what makes them beautiful, but also the lengths they have to go to to appear that beautiful, also so other women can understand and not feel as hopeless. And yes, models and actresses have had plastic surgery performed since the 50s, long before it became available to the general population, as it's hard to look good on camera, even if you're beautiful in real life.
It's a business of GLAMOUR, all smoke and mirrors, and you're sadly deluded if you think it's all real. Talk to anyone in the business and they would laugh, and it's very unhealthy for normal women to compare themselves with these role-models, who are much more beautiful than most to begin with.
I just don't understand what you're agenda is. You seem to want to hold up an impossibly high standard for women and make them feel bad about themselves if they can't reach it. Does this bring you some kind of pleasure (knowing for women this is a weak spot)? At least I'm realistic, and understand all that goes into it, being a woman and having studid the beauty schedules and procedures that have been performed on many "Stars" (things like nose-jobs and cheek-implants are almost obligatory - and have been for a long time - could show you many examples if I could be bothered).
And no offense to your wife, but I'm in a slightly different league, and don't suffer so much in that department as long as I do my best. I'm just an aeshetician, or lover of beauty, and to me it can never be too much. But maybe this is the root of the attitude you take towards women - you're unsatisfied with your wife and like to take it out on other women with your impossible demands. I've known types like you, who like to encourage anorexia, and would like unhealthy and unrealistic demands like that to become the standard. This is hardly fair on other women, though, is it? But some seem to take a sadistic pleasure in this.
And it's never going to become the common ideal. But what disturbs me about you the most is your seemingly lack of love for women and rejoicing in seeing a women as just a piece of meant to be use. While killing themselves living upto impossible standards imposed upon them by men and society.
What do you have to offer women, that's so precious, I wonder?
But the crux of the matter is that you're confusing personal taste with what's healthy/normal/ideal for women. You might like the pornstar look, with huge curves on a tiny body, and not much else. But not many women are built that way and will never be, no matter how much they starve themselves.
So it's mindless to hold that up as an ideal, especially for Northern European women. Eastern Rueopean, Meditarranean, Latin, are a bit closer. If that's your taste that's fine, but don't use it to terrorise other women with your unrealistic ideals.
Just look at what you like to see instead, there are plenty of those to, and you're obviously not a HC type of guy.
Happy now? That's because it's their natural built and takes no effort to uphold. Look for someone like that instead.
I could starve myself into a skeleton and I still woulnd't look like that. So I just have to accept it and find a guy who has it more to his taste. And that goes for any other women in a similar situation.
Ever heard of the phrase "A form of beauty in any woman"? For the one who has eyes to enjoy.
