What is the average weight for a 5'4 12yr old female with large bone structure?

What concerns me is how often this type of question is asked, and always by girls.

I have some questions -

Do you yearn for average looks? Would you be proud to have average intelligence? Do you want people to say, "She has an average personality"?

Then why would you be concerned with having "average" weight?

Are you aware that the BMI and other "charts" were predominantly developed in the middle of the 19th century when most people were undernourished and much shorter then we are now?

Are you aware that Hollywood and Madison Avenue portray "ideal women" that bear a suspicious resemblence to starving concentration camp survivors? Are you aware of how many models starve themselves and/or use drugs?

Are you aware of the thousands of girls - just like you - who die from Anorexia Nervosa?

Are you aware of the thousands more who have a variety of life long health related problems from Bulimia?

Tired of the questions yet? Here's a last one -

Do you know the pain of having your daughter die of starvation, and it happening because you weren't paying attention to how weight obsessed she was?

Now if you truly think you have a weight problem, have your parents take you to a doctor. Other than that, be yourself and be it in style, and to hell with what Cosmo thinks of you.

They don't actually know you. Or care.