It's an interesting topic because, man, this issue is loaded. When I first looked at the initial image, my instinctive thought was (rather unexpectedly) that both theses individuals are a bit off-center from perfectly healthy. Honestly I don't think I've seen a photo of Monroe where she looked this size before. But above all, it seems very shallow to make "sexiness" the one-and-only issue here when each side has its own vices. In that sense I totally agree with the author. Self comparison with others is probably as bad an influence as societal pressures. But that's one of multiple issues here which aren't even mentioned. The part I take issue with most is the author's simplistic approach to Monroe's depression. Admittedly, I don't know much about Monroe's case, but depression is a disease. To pin it all on insecurities about herself seems naive. It tries to hard to make the world a one-dimensional scale of body image.