Well, as outspoken as I have been, and continue to be, on the subject of women damaging their bodies by harmful, crippling shoes, in an attempt to conform to some wacky notion that this makes them somehow more sexually alluring, you know I would have to show up here to emit a prim little "I told you so" and launch into yet another occasionally semi-coherent tsunami of disjointedness.
Several people have pointed out that genetics plays a role, and they are correct. There is also a sizeable chunk of the population with a strong genetic predisposition to diabetes, and I doubt that anyone would suggest that those individuals should make pineapple upside-down cake a staple of their diet.
Today's shoe choices include ballet flats from plain and basic to elegantly trimmed and "embellished" to skanktrashy Bedazzled. Whatever your personality, whatever the occasion, whatever your budget, there is a ballet flat - or a "professional-looking" moccasin just waiting to keep your feet from looking like that, as you read, in another few years, of these same stars limping hither and yon for the latest and greatest in treatments for their back trouble, because those shoes are not content to merely ruin your feet and keep you strapped into a life of pain.
Our spirits may not be bound by the laws of physics, but our bodies are, and people who violate laws frequently get arrested.
Who among us really wants to be with somebody who does not think we are beautiful when we stand straight and tall, with our heels resting gracefully on the ground, as gravity and our spinal columns have commanded!