It seems as if anorexia is an epidemic these days, girls and guys are constantly trying to fit an ideal image that isn't their own. The magazines and the television advertisers don't really care how many ribs you have, They can find a hundred more people just like you, the ones that have more ribs showing than you do, the ones they have to make eat because nothing looks good on them and that have to sit down after walking across the room because they almost faint from the physical activity. Their hair is falling out, they can't eat without throwing up, and their faces are sunken in. It is unfairly justified that Anorexia is just a girls disease: Guys are affected too. They are pressured to look buff, and get rid of their stomachs and have rock hard abs that all the girls want, guys can be anorexic, just like women can beat men rather than men only being the ones beating women. An anorexic person has an intense fear of gaining weight. Someone with anorexia thinks about food a lot and limits the food he or she eats, even though he or she is too thin. Anorexia is more than just a problem with food, it's a way of using food or starving oneself to feel more in control of life and to ease tension, anger, and anxiety similar to the large number of teens that cut their selves to feel more in control, take it from someone who used to cut, it spins everything more out of control, your not the one in control, the razor is. It has been said that women of color are less likely to develop an eating disorder because their cultures usually accept all different sizes, but in the past years after being exposed to images of tiny girls, more women of color have developed eating disorders. With all these skinny, perfect bodies running around all over the T.V. how is a woman suppost to feel good about her own body? When she is constantly bombarded with images of perky, pretty, tiny-waisted, perfects? Sure there are beautiful women such as Queen Latifah, America Ferreira, and Monique' that embrace every curve in their body, and movies like "Real women have curves" "Phat Girlz" and "Hairsprary" try to inspire girls to love theirselves and that everyone deserves love, even a bigger person. I've noticed every month after looking in a magazine I have a monthly subscription to that they always have one thick lady in their magazine and the other one hundred and something pages are size 0-10 and that's basically the cut off, except for that one page with the sz. 22 girl! I have nothing against skinny people, so if you are skinny do not take this personally, it's about the industry not you sweetie =) Maybe if the magazines, the clothing designers, the T.V. advertisers wouldn't pick one ideal image but many and combine them all into one, we could all be perfectly happy and content with the way we are and not spend our lives and our money on diet pills, puking up our dinners, not eating, and have a better future not letting the fashion industry and the magazines tell us who we are and what we need to look like. So lovely's go to your mirror, take a look at your insides and say to yourself "Wow, I'm beautiful (or handsome, boys gotta stay tough) and I'm not going to let some magazine or some ideal image tell me that i'm not." If you want to change yourself because of some ideal image, remember that's not you and you don't want to be that girl, you want to be yourself and that's all you need too be. Remember: Anorexia affects the whole body: Kidney failure, menstration stops, hard to get pregnant, post partum depression, low birth weight, low potassium, easily bruises, constapation, bloating, yellow skin, bone less, weak muscles, brittle nails, kidney stones, the list continues on and on, so don't be another person that almost died because they let the fashion industry and Anorexia Nervosa win.
Thanks for Listening, This has been blogging with Caity =)
