Pros And Cons Of Anorexia

Kimberly, this was a great post! I love that you incorporated some suggestions for parents in your blog. Your post opens the doors for the severity and the lack of insensitivity we have towards Anorexia Nervosa. One thing that you mentioned was that “Out of all the psychiatric illnesses, anorexia nervosa is one of the deadliest”. This is very alarming to know that adolescents are at high risk of death due to this eating disorder. Although, I am not a parent of a teenager, I do have the responsibility to speak up against this deadly disorder. Thank you for reminding us that we are our children’s guardians against Anorexia Nervosa. Amazing post!

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

Dying To Be Thin, Anorexia: Friend or Foe?, and Bulimia Nervosa: Friend or Foe? The Pros and Cons of Bulimia Nervosa discuss the eating disorders anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). Each is valuable to the clinician because they explore the attitudes, both pro and con, of those afflicted with eating disorders.

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

The fashion industry is rapidly growing and constantly generating new fashion trends almost weekly. Fashion for some may seem ridiculous and unnecessary; but fashion is not just a meaningless usage of article of clothing or farcical materials sew together for coverage. There is more to fashion than meets the eyes, fashion is precious and significant. It is a reflection of self-image, it speak the ream about who we are and how we review ourselves. Not only is fashion the reflection of self-image but also the reflection of our history as Coco Channel have said, “Fashion is not something that exist in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” Fashion

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

Some models believe that the only way to gain or maintain their success is to be the thinnest model in the industry which unfortunately leads them to eating disorders in order to achieve this unrealistic expectation for success. The pressure to maintain a job is an incredibly present issue in all industries. However, in the fashion industry, this anxiety can lead to unhealthy habits such as eating disorders which possibly lead to death.

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.

In 2007, a shocking ad was displayed starring model, Isabelle Caro. Caro's anorexic frame was splayed out, nude, for the world to see what she looked like. Despite her wish to recover from her ongoing battle with anorexia - Caro lost her battle at the age of 28. Shortly before her death, Caro published a book entitled The Little Girl Who Didn't Want to Get Fat. Caro is not the only sufferer of eating disorders as a result of body dissatisfaction - millions worldwide suffer as well.

Fashion models don’t need to be thin, they need to be diverse and healthy at whatever weight that is. Not everyone is supposed to be thin, some women are big boned and curvy, others are naturally slim and small boned, some are tall, others are short, some are light skinned and others are darker. So many diverse looks exist in the world today and the fashion industry need to change their perception of perfect. Body image in our society is out of control. We have young men and women comparing themselves to unrealistic models and images in the media and feeling bad about the way their own bodies look because they somehow don’t measure up. (Dunham, 2011) The struggle for models to be thin has led to models becoming anorexic or bulimic,

As the media has become a bigger part of our lives, the rate of eating disorders has risen dramatically. More and more, we see smaller models and smaller celebrities. In late 2000, PBS aired a documentary focused on eating disorders, one portion focused on the modeling industry. The average model weighs 25% less than than the average American woman (Dyeing to be thin). In the modeling industry, plus size starts at a U.S. women’s size 8 (Dyeing to be thin).

Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the riches to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creator of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as having leading names in today’s ready-to-wear industry. The list is long, but I chose to focus on the three most important designers of the modern fashion industry.

Throughout the years, models have been progressively been getting skinnier. "Size 6 (UK size 10) was a normal size" (Littlejohn). There are many downsides to the super thin models of today. They cause unattainable standards of beauty for people which leads to eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating. This is affecting models and teenage girls the most, peoples health is being sacrificed for "fashion", and it needs to stop.

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.