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...symbol of status, health or sex appeal, the strong body is a sensible goal ? and not only for those women whose livelihoods depend on the rigorous care and feeding of their bodies. Jane Doe, as as well well as Jane Fonda, is making a good habit out of exercise, sport and weight lifting, and has the new body to prove it. Lisa Yeager, 23, is a secretary at an Atlanta bank and a cheerleader for the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. "A well-toned body shows me that a woman cares enough about herself to improve herself. I exercise because...
...skin line? For this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room, with her perfect body." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker journalist and humorist, wonders whether this new ideal woman is only a media spin-off from the popularity of Jane Fonda and her bestselling Workout Book (see box page 75). "For the public good," Trillin says, "the more people who can lift the end of a car off the ground in case of trouble, the better. But I'm not sure I see any other advantages to it. Speaking as one whose muscles...
...attractive. She will not try to change: "I think you can get too muscular. I'm not the jealous type, but I'd be jealous of a woman with drop-dead curves rather than of a woman with an athletic build. Somewhere there is a happy medium between Fonda and Dolly Parton...
...publicity photos they used to airbrush the muscles out of my arms," says Principal, who jogs up a mountain three times a week. Now she has her revenge: The Body Principal is soon to hit the bookstores, where it will join the dozens of other glossy guides like Jane Fonda's ? on weight lifting and weight reducing, on holistic medicine and pregnancy therapy ? that crowd the special display tables devoted to the fitness fashion...
...Conceptions of beauty start in the family," says Harvard Psychologist Jackie Zilbach, "and they start very young. Little girls tend to follow their mothers' notions of beauty." The previous generation of mothers had not put much store in exercise, for themselves or their children. But members of the Jane Fonda generation have remade their own bodies, and are encouraging their lithe young daughters to start from scratch. In Chicago, new mothers are flexing the arms and legs of their month-old babies in an infant aerobics course. By the time they grow up, after a youth of exercise and competition...