I was about to continue this discussion about models and eating disorders and so on:

quote:

Originally posted by The Wolf:
I always hate to hear of models starving themselves.

It's very sad, and they always look way better when they are at a healthy weight.

which is posted here:
http://forum.ryoni.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/82010571/m/16...?r=23210375#23210375

Bt in a second thought, I believe it makes a topic by itself, discussed separately in several threads...

To start the topic, I'm posting two videos that I found yesterday, related that matter

They are not yellow, they are real.. so please, watch them and tell us what u think
Thanks!!

I can understand how some people (girls in particular) can think that they are a bit "fatter" than they actually are.

However, I've never been able to understand how someone who literally looks like a set of bones can see themselves as overweight.

I quite literally just don't understand it.

Do their eyes actually play tricks on them?
and when they measure themselves, cant they see that they are already as thin or thinner than the people that they admire?

It's always just so sad...
So many potentially beautiful women reduced to bones and destroyed over something so silly & stupid.

The issue is, the media and especially Anna Wintour (Vogue editor-in-chief) has created this thin image aesthetics. She started during the 80s and early 90s especially, pushing all the waif looking models (Kate Moss, Shalom Harlow, Carmen Kass, Amber Valetta) and having them gracing the Vogue covers.

And when that happened, designers were sort of 'force' to create clothes for thin girls. The ideal dress size used to be a 4, but it soon dropped to 2 and now even 0. Vogue under the throne of Anna Wintour also forced celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow (after her pregnancy), to lose weight in order to appear on the cover.

So, it's natural that most women(including me) are influenced by this image because they're being BOMBARDED with it everyday and they believe thin is beautiful.

Aaaawww...Maddie,I love your signature

Ahm...back to topic:
The influence of these too skinny girls is really huge.
I see that everyday...on my own friends.
ALL of my girlfriends think they are too fat...most of them have an ideal body...and they still would like to lose weight.
I never heard one of my friends say that she is happy with her body,and that is not a good thing imo
I mean...I am also not 100% happy with my body but...I would never starve myself just to look like someone on a magazine.
But unfortunately there are many girls who dont have enough self esteem and who begin to starve herself cause they think it will make them feel better...but it doesnt.

I hope this "trend" will change soon...there luckily are models like Heidi Klum or Tyra Banks who show some curves but...
the size 0 look is still wanted in the fashion industry,even if the designers deny that

well IMO I dont think fashion has something to do with this I mean everyone should accept the way he or she is I mean the models are there to be good looking thats her job, so people shouldtn feel bad cause they dont look like models

It is a sad problem caused by an impulse of self-destruction and by all that pressure made by the fashion and artist circles

In a period of a year we have learned about several models or artists who have been admitted into hospitals or even have died in the runways. And we have no information about all those around the corner girls that have been affected by this disease on their attempt to follow those roles, so acclaimed by the massive diffusion media.

Very sad, really

I really like my sig too, Nadine...

Thought I would like to share with you guys this info, my girlfriends and I were all calculating our BMI. The healthy (ideal) BMI is btw 18.5 - 24.5. Five of us has BMI within that range, my BMI is 19.5. While one of my girlfriend (she's a model) has a BMI of 16, and that's already underweight. But the funny thing is, all of us think we should lose some weight, even though we fall within the acceptional weight. Personally, I want a BMI of 18.5...

Although all of us are being influence by thin body image is beautiful, we don't really starve ourselves...usually we exercise 3-4 times a week. So, at least we're losing weight the healthy way. But I used to suffer from exercise bulimia.

well i know of some eating disordres....
one is anorexia... ths means that person is anorexic that is weak due to less nutrition...
another is anorexia nervosa... this is a medical emergemgy... in this the person feels that he/she is fat or out of shape though they are normal so they deliberately avoid meals leading to less necessary vitamins minerals or even nessay fats and cholestrolll>

another is bulimina.. in this the person eats a lot or even normally .they they feel bad about themselves... and endeavour to vomit...leading to problems of gastric regurtition... and may even produce ulcer in long term....


i dont know if this is going to help u or not ..
or if it does contribute to the discussion!!!
but i feel the model agencies have doctors to look after these...

for me only the bad effect of the slim models is upon the youngesters who try to imitate them????

love ya all

hey

as an reply to princeofwales;

There is only 1 type off anorexia. and thats just Anorexia! anorexia nervosa is the full name off it.

boulimia is another kind off eating disorder, just as binge eating, and EDNOS, all different types but anorexia is just 1 type.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqAOSjGzc0

i'm my opinion, fashion, hollywood and especially the media have something to do with girls feeling bad about themselves.

they keep this image inscripted on people that being skinny is attractive anything other than that is not.
you see agencies telling models too they need to lose weight, i've even seen on top model where a designer told one of the models she needs to work on her weight or she would never make it in modeling.

i'm touchy to this subject cause i've fallen a victim to it.
i can say now with no hesitation that i was anorexic and honestly your mind does play tricks on you, when you're skinny, you still find some fat on you which others dont even see it. Since we're soo stuck on our body images any little thing we see on ourselves is ugly or fat.

You are a very brave girl Claudia, and I respect you for that

very nice from you to share that with us
I remember somewhere a picture of you, a tanned brunette with clear eyes, isn't it?
It's good to know that you are here alright now with us

thanks very much, you're too kind. it was when i was about 16. im 19 now, think smarter.

actually i'm tanned with brown eyes.