A Supermodel at a fashion show
But their advertising may have gone to far:
Supermodels and actors have been blamed for triggering eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia that have horrible effects on the victims.
It doesn’t help that some supermodels have these disorders themselves so people think that if they also
stop eating then they will look models too.
It is not just females who are affected by the ideal body, males also have to try and live up to the “macho” image.
Cosmopolitan cover page
The strange thing is that not only do overweight people lose self-esteem over the “ideal body” but people who are seemingly fine in the weight department are also affected.
A healthy body is no longer the issue anymore, a thin one is. Clothes stores mainly stock clothes such as midriff tops and tight jeans, items which people believe they have to be stick thin to look good in.
People could argue however, that nowadays we are more informed then ever on how fake the modelling industry is and how now people can look up to role-models that are happy with their bodies.
People like Sophie Dahl, a famous size 12 model, and Sarah-Marie, a previous housemate of Big Brother, are both examples of celebrities who have healthy attitudes to their bodies.
True as this may be the number of women dieting to achieve the ideal body is enormous as compared to those who are happy with their bodies and lead healthy lifestyles.
A healthy body is one where a person eats well and does a healthy amount of physical exercise, not necessarily a size 8.
A few major designers however seem to think differently. Some have claimed that they don’t make clothes above size 12
because they don’t
want people larger
then size 12 wearing
their clothes.
Designers are not
the only people who
seem to have narrow-minds about body size, last year a columnist for the Newcastle Herald, Jeff Corbett, wrote an article that stated “fat girls” shouldn’t wear skin-tight clothes or midriff tops.
“Girls in their late teens and early twenties baring unsightly blubber were so common that it was nothing short of visual pollution…. the midriff look is for young women with flat stomachs”
This was a portion of what was written in his controversy-
causing article.
Why has body image become such a big issue that people are actually contracting mental diseases and disorders over it? Why is the skeletal look seen as the ideal body image?
The “ideal” body is just another scam being pulled of by the media in order to make them more money by people dieting and buying their products, unfortunately the majority of people seem to have fallen for it.
