DISCUSSION LEADERS: Stephanie Giannoutsos & Hailey Rosa

1. REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES

2. Body Image
Points of Conversation: Quotes:
 Carmen (Mother):
 Pressures of the  Use of “Fatty”
white societal image  “You‟ll never fit into that”-in relation
to the size 7 dress
pushed upon other  “Look at you, you look awful”
 “She‟s bigger than the cake”
cultures  “You would look beautiful without
all that fat”
 Importance of image
 Ana:
in relation to marriage  “I don‟t lie on applications, except
for my weight”
 (Ana) You look just like  “Why should anyone tell me what I
us (Carmen) Yes but I‟m should look like, what I should be,
there's so much more to me than
married just my weight”
 Pancha:
 “Like my grandmother used to say,
„There's no better dressing than
meat on the bones”

3. Family
Quotes: Points of Conversation:
 “This is what happens  Garcia house as a
to people who don‟t Matriarchy
listen to their mothers”-
decapitation  Comparison to other
 “A man wants a virgin”-
cultures
A mind and thoughts  Importance of
are silly notions marriage and settling
 “A mother knows the down
right man for her  Family Values
daughter”
 “A grandmother is what
I should be at this age”

4. Stereotypes
 What are some of the stereotypes you found in
the movie
 Think of the character‟s traits, jobs, education, etc.
 Is the movie attempting to demonize a certain side
of the culture or merely replicate it?
 Keep in mind those producing this movie were mostly Latino

5. Message of the Movie
America in Real Women
Have Curves: America Today: