Eating Disorders : Celebrities And Teen Girls

Laine Sterbenz, a student from the University of Kentucky and popular blogger on Odyssey, concludes that skinny models give girls and women motivation to live healthier lifestyles in a way no other body type could. In her post, she argues that models have that skinny body that is desired by every girl, the ideal to work to attain. She then continues into saying that if overweight models were to be used, or even average sized ones, then women wouldn’t actually have the motivation to want to eat better and live a healthier life, because they would already be satisfied with how they look. While Sterbenz brings up valid points, she weakens the argument by contradicting her own statements, and unwittingly promoting unhealthy eating habits and

One may believe that slim celebrity pictures make people avoid being that weight, while it is also believed that these celebrities may be causing a weight drop in people around the world. Kelly Cutrone, owner of People’s Revolution, states that models are born with the characteristics needed to model, and these models are not unhealthy. Also, Psychologist Douglas Bunnell states that stars simply show the horrors of eating disorders, and how people should avoid disorders of this kind. However, it seems as though the models are underweight as many have passed out because of dehydration. In refutation to Bunnell, it seems, through studies, that smaller celebrities inspire young people to become the

According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, “the body type portrayed in advertising as the ideals is possessed naturally by only 5% of American females.” (“ANAD”) Body image has been a controversial theme because of the influence of the media. It is a widely known fact that eating disorder cases are on the rise. The concept of body image is a subjective matter. The common phrase, “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,” holds true meaning in this sense. One’s view and value of their body is self-imposed. Falling into the destructive eating disorders reveals much about a person’s psychological and emotional state. Examining the mental, physical, and emotional conditions behind recognized eating

When we have a job that we love, we want to keep it no matter what. That’s understandable, but we have to be careful how far we actually go in order to keep it. There are things much more important than any job in the world like our health. Even for those who’s jobs, looks are everything. We all want to look our best at all time, especially if we are in the modeling business. There have been many issues with models and their ways of losing weight. These models have eating disorders that can truly harm them. The way that they do their weight lost can have terrifying consequences. These consequences many times cause them their lives or threats just as delicate. Due

For the couture, we had to get up at 4 a.m. to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin.” Models in the fashion industry have been getting thinner and thinner, with runway models being size 0 to size 4 and plus size models being between sizes 6 and 14, and they qualify for anorexia on the charts of eating disorders according to Rader Programs, an organization that helps treat eating disorders. Most models use extreme dieting methods such as eating tissues and lettuce to keep themselves thin. This is encouraged in the industry due to the need to stay thin. Because these dieting techniques work for the models, some teenage girls get the idea that they can do that as well.

In Jonathon Raders article, “Does the media cause eating disorders?”, he argues that eating disorders, such as anorexia or bulimia, include a high mortality rate, higher rate than any other illness. The author claims that 69% of girls say that that photo shopped magazine pictures influence the perfect body shape to them. Rader also points out that the mannequins and models are growing thinner, even the plus size models are shrinking in sizes. The runway models are beginning to meet the body mass for anorexia, which, he argues, is a very unhealthy BMI level. The author also

Everytime a person looks in the mirror they are confronted with a reflection of the person.To a stranger this reflection would mean nothing but to the person who is being reflected it means everything, Society in general influences the way people see and think about their bodies and one of the biggest influencers is pop culture. Pop culture is the glue that bings society together and promotes certain things and certain lifestyles. Because of this it is often the scape goat for unhealthy and sometimes even dangerout lifestyles. But is it the only cause? Pop culture impacts eating disorders and childhood obesity but it is not the cause of either body issue.

According to the article entitled, The Fashion Industry May Be Linked to Poor Body Image and Eating Disorders, psychologists and eating disorder experts say the fashion industry has gone too far in pushing thin image ideals on women and young girls. Professor of psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago and Vice President of the American Psychiatric Association states “we know seeing super-thin models can play a role in causing anorexia.” This article argues that the common thin, sexy ideal in our culture and society has caused many women and girls to dislike their bodies and have poor self image, a body dissatisfaction that can lead to unhealthy weight control behaviors and

In “The Fashion Industry Should Not Be Held Responsible for Eating Disorders” Lisa Hilton write about how the fashion industry has no impact on eating disorders. Hilton discusses how the fashion industry ultimately does not care about looks, that they care more about profits. She believes that since the models get all their talents from nature and that they make a lot of money, that they don’t get victimized. Hilton believes that anorexia and bulimia, although being bad conditions, are not as prevalent as the barrage of attention it actually attracts. She uses The South Carolina Department of Mental Health to claim that obesity, which affects 34% women in America alone, is much more prevalent than Anorexia which only affects 0.5% of women in

I think this book would be interesting because it is told by Ms. Gottlieb herself and is about how she has dealt with her eating disorder in the Hollywood setting. It is set in the 1970s and I would not think the pressures would be the same as what some people face in Hollywood today. When I think of famous actresses in the 70s (which is not many since I do not usually watch older films), I seem to remember them having average size bodies that are not necessarily skinny but not overweight either. However, this might have been around the time when everyone’s ideas and expectations changed about body figures. I would also like to compare the stories in this book with some of the information that is available currently. Since it is set in the

This is not intentional, but when one younger girl sees her idol and she or he has an eating disorder, the girl would want to be just like him or her. In fact, models are just as vulnerable as any other teenager to have anorexia because of pressure to be skinny all the time. Models can be so pressured by the company, by their agent, or by the people to be skinny that soon the model thinks he or her are never the right size. “Many Models face incredible pressure to stay thin, and sometimes the pressure can be too much” (Mills). There are many models around the world who have eating disorders including Isabelle Caro. She happened to be a french model who had anorexia, she was most well known for appearing at an anti-anorexia campaign. She died in Paris, France in 2010 because of Anorexia bulimia. One anti- anorexia campaign described the anorexic models like Isabelle, “Fashion sketches—the way that people communicate designs to one another—idealize these bodies, with their exaggerated proportions, long slender limbs, and expressionless faces” (Bridges). Overall, girls, women, men, and models are all possible of gaining an eating disorder and or unintentionally passing it on to another person. With models, there is a pressure to be thin, but with teenagers peer pressure is the main source for anorexia in their age

Fashion Industries all over the world are the cause of so many deaths and eating disorders of models with their force of having to be skinny. Many anorexic models are often found on the catwalks are pressurized to be below average size and weight with around 40% of models are found with some type of eating disorder. Many even have been told by their managers that they are too ‘fat’ and need to lose weight if they are to keep their jobs.

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Unfortunately, it is common for people to compare themselves to celebrities to meet certain standards but in addition to causing eating disorders, this causes self- doubt and depression. There are actually many celebrities who have had eating disorders who openly speak about it such as Demi Lovato and Brandy Norwood who virtually stopped eating to be slim (Wulff et al., 2004, p. 75). Even kids as young as the age of five are dealing with complications as a result of the desire to have an ideal body image in society. For example, according to Wulff et al. (2004), at the age of five a young girl named Justine stopped gaining weight and claimed her cheeks were too fat. She would use paper to stop her hunger and at the age of seven was diagnosed

A large contributing factor to this problem is that many people in the fashion world encourage the use of overly thin models in editorials and fashion shows. For example, as Kathryn Shattuck, What's On Today: [The Arts/Cultural Desk], mentions that Kelly Cutrone, world renowned fashion publicist, encourages, “Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better” (1). The fashion industry’s emphasis on being thin and its use of extremely underweight models in unacceptable. Many people would agree that the fashion industry plays the majority role in eating disorders, but Lisa Hilton, British Vogue writer, disagrees. Hilton argues, “Its objective is selling clothes, and the consensus remains that in order to achieve this, models need to be thin . . . Fashion is about fantasy, about impossibility, about, dare we say it, art. Most women can’t tell the difference” (1). Hilton condescendingly continues to refute the criticisms that models are too thin and the fashion industry encourages eating disorders.