Lilo, Stich, and Body Image

As I sit at a table in our back room working today, my two younger girls (5 and almost 8) are in the room with me watching Lilo and Stitch. As I glance up from my computer from time to time to watch the movie, I'm noticing something that Sheila mentioned several weeks ago.

The two main female characters in this show - Lilo and her sister - do not have thin, Barbie-like bodies. They are both attractive girls, to be sure - they just aren't models of our society's notions of perfection.

I wish that my girls could be exposed to more movies like this one - movies where they learn that lovable, attractive girls don't have to look like supermodels and supermodels-to-be.