Look at these photographs and tell me what you think?

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haswena

We're living in such a weird world... These famous women are under constant pressure to be thin, or they won't be successful in Hollywood. They don't get the acting job of the pretty lady, when they're 10 kilos bigger. But... when they look too thin, the whole world is commenting on their ribs showing off in the press.

When will not only our 'role-models', but also the rest of us be just happy with the way we are, healthy curves and all?

Being as thin as possible has been a trend for quite some time now. Also I hoped that (after some size 0 models died because of severe underweight) the determination of a required minimum weight for models on the catwalk, the better example was set and this trend would diminish...

But just now I thought that ridiculous as-thin-as-possible trend was getting out of fashion, they invented something new in the States (the country with the largest percentage of people with obesity, how ironic): size 00.
A size 00 is equal to size 30 and then I'm not talking about the pant-size! Who fits this size (xxxs)? In a normal world it would be only a 7 year old...

What's next? Size 000? Maybe the ones striving for this goal will finally get what they want so badly, when they lie burried in their coffin, due to undernourishment...

Yes, I do believe that these trends set a bad example, and not only for our kids. Even I, knowing all I just wrote here, find it sometimes hard to be happy with the way I look. Until the fashion industry and Hollywood keep this skinnier-than-skinny look as the standard for being beautiful, I don't see a change in this. Even though almost everyone (men and women) is saying they don't define this look as beautiful, we're still en mass sticking to our diets and feel guilty about that bar of chocolate that just went down our throat in one time.

Think I want to become a feminist...

Joannah

Tell me about it. My daughter who is seven now seems to be more conscious of her figure than I am! She tells me, "Mom you've gained weight." after a pause she adds, "a lot of weight". No matter how much I try to convince her, all her role models are stick thin. I am not talking about Barbie dolls but those insane cartoon characters like Totally Spies or Brats where all of them are so thin. Our culture seems to be coming back to where "thin is in". I've had a difficult time feeding her which seems to be me torturing her to eat. It's tiring to say "ye" at least forty times during mealtime.

I myself am a couple of pounds overweight but I think it's normal. I don't know why we don't go back to the Renaissance period where robust women were the norm. I've never seen a painting of a thin naked lady in a museum before. All of them were of women who are by our standards amply overweight.

Feminists aside, aren't some or most men partly to blame for wanting their women super sexy or thin? It ticks me a little when a woman can't enjoy a whole doner without men saying that "You're not supposed to finish that because you're a woman" meaning the doner was basically for a man's appetite and as a woman, you have to eat a woman's portion of it. That happened to me once.

istanbul bogazi

Ok this was digusting!
All my life i made sports and i still make everything you can think of because i believe that sports is very very important in our lives for our health.
I pay really a lot of attention to what i eat i mean healthy food. vegetables,fruits,fish etc. But i don't know how someone can be that skinny!
This is not healthy. This is sick.
Of course there are some people who are naturally thin but this is nothing to do with them. Naturally thin people do not starve themselves they just eat and do not gain weight so they look healthy not like that.
I prefer Scarlette Johanson, Jessica Alba or Gisele Bundchen to those who have horrible legs.
Giydikleri bile yakismamis ki!

..Tolia..

I totally agree that the type of "beautiful woman"that international movie and music industry promotes, is totally pathetic!

Thus according to my opinion, its not totally their fault, we have our share too in this situation, cause we accept what they offer us and we dont have the required stamina to say no and react!
And I agree its a matter of culture..
Nowadays Vanity and Eternal Youthness are the N 1 goals not only for young people but for old ones too..

The question is what can we do about it?

We can reject those beauty standards that they set and learn to accept reality, to love and care for people, and to see beneath the surface

That was a good question - I run - congrats

Katrina

I don't they they need someone to speak for them... I'm skinny- I'm not anorexic or otherwise. I just am, people complain that I'm skinny too skinny- but usually they are fat.
If I'm happy and healthy and if these women as well, who should care?
A person underweight will live longer and healthier then a person overweight.

ithinkiatetoomuch

At 36 I can look at this and know it is not reality, these people are abnormal, This is the same as obesity; an illness. But I think young girls can't see that this is NOT reality! It is a dangerous example. But then look how these girls carry on, they drive drunk and get arrested. They are a bad example.
They honestly (not all) look quite bad, am I the only one who thinks so?

hanibal

Like old TV antennas.

ipek

They all look ugly. they hurt my eyes.

Ands

They need more food.

thatsmypurse091804

Who cares if some rich skinny women don't want to eat? I sure don't, I'm pretty sure they can speak out for themselves if they wanted to, Angelina Jolie is a UN representative for Pete's sake. I'm more concerned with the people who are underweight because they have no food to eat, rather than the ones who shovel it down & then puke it up!

Templar

Being a connoisseur of women I can't for the life of me understand it .
its all about **** and ***' people are forgetting this. these skinny stick things just don't have it

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i cannot understand why people are so obsessed to look skinny in order to look good. you said that it affects children badly now i will tell you another part of it. it affects parents, too. for example when i was small i was chubby but for last 3 years i have always been thin.(you know you get taller and so on...) then this anorexia became fashion and last year i was about 45 kilos. it made my mum worry a lot my height is 165cm and she said i looked horrible. she thought i was anorexic and she refused to accept that since i had a lot of tests and works to do, i could be just depressed. and still she forces me to eat. well with her insisting i gained 3-4 kilos. and she still says i have to eat more and more. i cannot make her believe that i don't care about my look, i just cannot eat as much as she expects. so please if your child is thin don't just say "ooh she got this model disease" maybe there's another reason!!

anlarm

They are too skinny to be sexy. I prefer old fashioned curvy to these unhealthy women. Why cant they just be natural?

chalak g

what happened to lovely feminine curves, these women have boyish bodies, ewww

chrisvoulg1

You have a point... These women look more like walking skeletons or like inmates of Auscwitch, than healthy and sexy women! Who was the pervent who first come with the idea odf size 0?the best punishment for him/her would be to force him/ her to starve to the death as well!

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

American paparazzi are sickos who love exploiting people to their fullest. Most of those pictures are photoshoped or are real. The sad part is how people have to put celebrities under microscopes and place any bad pictures of them. Even if it's just them walking a dog...who cares what celebrities do in their free time, they sure don't care about others. They have so much money and only donate it to 1 organization.

Pinky

My Legs are sexier

GO NO-ANOREXIC!!!

pinkyismygirlfriendniluvhur

it must be a women's issue

I don't even understand what you are asking

Ipek K

Well...
Thank you !!! for showing those ugly things to me..

Those people are obsessed with their looks. Therefore, they dont deserve my respect and pity and therefore they may drop dead in a steed corner; why do I care. They earn lots of money- that I believe that they think they will be able take them to the " otherside" when they die of malnoutrishment- with these looks...

If you read my answers for the last one and a half years, you may as well noticed that I am very tolerant for ignorance but I have no tolerance for the ones who persist staying ignorant and those people are persistant...

Even the tabloids are screaming that both obesity and anoraxia kills or leaves one with irreversable damage , but if they are persistent, even a physciatrist cant help much.

On the other hand call me a nazi but I believe that a couple who decides to have a baby has to go through some serious testing to determine whether they are suitable to raise a child, or not.

If a mother is smart enough, she will not let her child to get influinced by this kind of publishing i.e. limiting the time for TV and buying proper newpapers and magazines at home, directing the child to have friends from reasonable families and teaching the child about health and beauty issues starting from a very young age.

Although I am not a mother, I have been assisting my sister to raise her daughter who is 7 and believe me, there are good sources of books and internet sites for every level of educated people for guidance.

We explained her that those" too thin" people are not healthy and they are like the mannicans on the windows of the stores and it is sad that they will suffer illnesses when they get older and she understood it perfectly.

My sis also knows that she shouldn't feed her daughter with too much food in order to show her effection and to hide her faults and suspicions whether she is a good mother or not. It is basic phycology and everyone can understand that.

I know it is hard to compete or try to fit in nowadays "fashion standarts" but a typical woman like me can not - and shouln't be expected to -look like size 34 model.

People has to understand looks count but it is not the only essential thing. We are not in a beauty contest for God's sake!!!

What happened to good morals, intellectuality or a point of view in life?

Jack Frosty

I prefer a skinny to a fatty any day. It's cheaper when going out! hahaha. They never order desert!

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