Welcome to PHAB - Pretty, Hot and Beauty-FULL ™. At last, an online destination for NORMAL sized people...

* sick and tired of steamed carrots WITHOUT the butter ?
* are you a woman who likes to eat lunch...AND dinner - on the same day?
* worried about someone who is anorexic...bulemic?
* tired of the media and tv focus on "thin is in"?

Well my friend, you've come to the right place.

PHAB is not about indulgence. PHAB is about facts - fact is there are 5.5 BILLION people on the planet and 42 working supermodels. That makes it a statistical near-impossibility to aspire to looking like one ...except of course our girl in the trenches - EMME!

* PHAB is about liking yourself;
* moving your body,mind and spirit;
* sharing information about the sociological, psychological, medical, and physiological aspects of being PHAB;
* empowering our community to demand more from the fashion industry, media and casting directors...

...it's all about being in the here and now and gaining acceptance out in society and, most importantly...from within....and being PHAB!

PHAB founder Ruth McCartney
* Height: 5'9"
* Weight: 170lbs
* Dress: 16
* Shoe 9 -10
* Bust: 42
* Waist: 35
* Hips: 41
* Hobbies: Cooking, Walking, Biking, Designing web sites, Motivating men and women of "Largesse", BUYING SHOES!!
* Age: yeah right !!
* History: Born and raised in Liverpool England in "the" McCartney Family. Ruth has toured Russia 9 times as a singer/songwriter/entertainer. Recorded an Album for BMG Germany, ( co-wrote 9 of the songs). Has lived in Sydney, London, Liverpool, Munich, Moscow, Hollywood, Nashville and Los Angeles, where she now resides with husband Martin, Mother Angie and their 4 Cats.
A former Cover Girl® and Estee Lauder® Model, she is the founder of this web site PHAB.com and is also busy designing a line of "14 and Up" clothes and developing a cosmetic line and look for larger ladies.

Says Ruth in an excerpt from a recent interview with British Journalist Roy Greenslade:

" I have always been told "What nice eyes you have... if you could just lose 40 pounds" or "I know this really great doctor in Beverly Hills - for $500 he can inject the urine of a pregnant sheep straight into your pancreas - you'll drop 10lbs overnight" yeah - and Southwest Airlines will start serving Lamb Chops, wilted Spinach Salad and Garlic Mashed Potatoes in economy class! - Oh and I forgot to mention the Godiva Choccies! As far as I'm concerned, as long as women ( and their men) feel good, take care of their health, get their mammograms and female run through the Gynae to get their oil checked as often as they need to, and LAUGH at the old body image of "a perfect size 2" - what's perfect about starving and throwing up???...then the heck with what society has deemed acceptable. If you can count 5 friends that love you and a healthy cholesterol reading amongst your inventory when you go to sleep at night - then you've made it in my book!"

She continues:

"When I moved to Hollywood in 1983, I swore I would go crazy if I heard the "Heather Locklear" recipe thrown at me one more time. Don't get me wrong, she's one of the women I admire most in the business, she's beautiful, strong, has perfect teeth, great hair, a helluva taste in Rock Stars and she's a genetic freak! I mean, do the math - there are 5 or 4 billion people on the planet and three dozen or so supermodels - wouldn't you call those some kind of crazy odds to be telling young girls to emulate?"

On closing:

"I am going to be proactive in both the Multimedia and lecture arenas as far as the Body Acceptance issue goes - if I can stop one phab phat Diva from thinking she's "just a blob" or one frail,undernourished teen from spending one more minute in the bathroom with the handle of their toothbrush holding down their tongue - then that's what I aspire to do....care to join me in a Banana Split?!!"
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