photo assignment

I chose to do body image and weight for the photo assignment. I think that it has gotten out of hand. There should not be such a size as 00 that’s impossible to fit into if you are a healthy person. Models and the media have taken it too far. By advertising these models with such thin bodies, they are telling us that if we aren’t that skinny then we are fat. This just really ticks me off because this problem has caused multiple deaths of young teenage girls who want to be and look like the models.

When I was in high school there was this girl who was a couple years older than me and she was bulimic. Everyone knew it and it wasn’t hard to tell. She would eat in front of people because she didn’t want people to know about her eating disorder, but you just knew that she had something going on. One day at school I was walking upstairs and she was in the same stairwell as me and her ankle just snapped. She was so weak and scared.  She didn’t come back to school till 2 months later and when she did she had gained maybe 50lbs. The doctors put her on medication so she could gain weight and get healthy. She to this day was the skinniest girl that I have ever seen.

Being a girl myself, I wouldn’t say I am a victim from this but it definitely has crossed my mind that I am fat or gaining weight, because my body doesn’t look like a models. Being a girl in today’s world is harsh and something needs to be done.

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