Flash, pose, pout and smile for the camera! Fast paced world of the fashionista, drug filled fantasy that all young girls dream of. Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell and Kimora Lee Simmons the personification of beauty and poise. Peal off the glitz and glamour and you find a dark world which swallows you whole. The strange thing is that they do not tell this to that fat kid drowning her sorrows in diet coke and a lean salad.
Obesity may be the leading cause of death in countries such as the U.S.A. However the impossible standards set by thin doped pin up girls is causing more deaths than the plague. Young boys and girls try to lose weight in the hopes of fulfilling the image of the runway model. Crash diets, binging and under eating are just some of the extents we take to look like the cover girl image of that high paced magazine.
The extent to which our journalism portrays these women and men is encouraging low self esteem in young people. Gone are the days where curvy was the in thing. Gone are the times where one was accepted for who and what they are. We are living in an era that promotes anorexia and young women who look like walking skeletons. The question is then this, how many young people must suffer in silence before our media stops feeding us with impossible dreams?
They say SEX Sells, but at what price?
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