I have to admit it. I am a total celebrity gossip junky. I know I know, I could spend my time doing far more productive things. Trust me, my mom tells me that everytime I am reading those magazines in the grocery store line. Even so, it´s so addicting.
Lately, though, well I guess for last few years, body images has become quite a big topic in those magazines. I am starting to find that everytime I glance at the covers of the magazines, it most often consists of Nicole Richie, Kate Bosworth, Mary Kate Olson or someother celebrity who is becoming frightfully thin. It is scary. They have misconceived notions that they are fat, when really they are on the brink of dying. When I read those magazines I can´t help comparing my body to theirs and I can´t help but feeling inadequate about my own body image. Even though I love reading about the gossip, I am getting very tired of reading about some new celebrity who only consists of bones.
The sad thing is I know that if I were a celebrity, I would be feeling very concerned and worried about my weight all the time as well. They are constantly being photographed and constantly being examined by the public eye. The worst part is that a lot of those magazines that write about anorexically thin disorders have a ¨weight watch¨. I have read articles about a celebrity entering treatment because of her dramatic weight loss and then flipping the page and reading about how a perfectly healthy celebrity who I actually admire for being a normal weight, is ¨adding on the pounds¨. Ugh!!
I worry about where the society is going with all of this. I worry about all of the young girls out there, who like me, read those types of magazines religiously. I hope that there is a way that we can change the notion that skinny is more beautiful than healthy. It´s never worth starving yourself to be beautiful.
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It's terrible how hypocritical (sp?) these magazines can be. One of my favorite magazines has articles about how to be healthy, instead of thin, and features on what clothes look best, no matter what your size is, and have encouraging statisitcs. And yet, this same magazine only advertizes with the thin models rather than have ads for clothing companies that make larger sized clothes, and will promote diet pills and extreme diet plans. In gossip magazines, one star is made fun of for being super-skinny, but the magazine next to it has swim suit pictures of start who's butts are suposedly too thin. Not to mention, discouragement from the media, particularily comedians, who mock the actresses or actors suffering from eating disorders.