Kitty Lam Miu-fong has a big problem with the slimming advertisements filling up TV and magazines lately.
Ms Lam, a pioneer of belly dancing in Hong Kong, believes women who feel good about themselves, whatever size they are, make the best dancers.
'The idea that women must get slim to look good and feel good is basically nonsense,' said Ms Lam, owner of Kitty's Belly Dance, one of Hong Kong's two belly-dancing schools. 'The beauty of a woman has nothing to do with her weight. It's about freedom in her mind and her body.
'Some of my students, especially the local girls, are way too thin. It creates a big problem because when you are too thin you lose the aesthetic side of your performance.
'At first they were afraid to look themselves in the mirror because they thought they were too fat, but I'm glad that after a while they began to develop the kind of confidence to make them feel good about themselves,' she said.
A Macau native, Ms Lam moved to Hong Kong with her family when she was five. Having worked in the computer industry for more than 10 years, she took up belly dancing in 1995.