Dying To Be Thin?

Mark over at Chester Street has some pictures up of two "stars" who are battling that Hollyweird lie promoting ultra thinness as an attractive look. Such lies push women into that dreaded state of being "anorexic."

Yes. When you look at those pictures, we can see how lies being told about what constitutes an "attractive look" in the acting and modeling industry is more accurately a spiral down towards health disasters. Unsuspecting teen, young women (and the girls that wish to emulate them) are headed towards infertility (often a devastating side effect of extreme weight loss) and even towards death.

Do you think that Nicole Ritchie thinks she looks good in that photo?

From what I have learned from people who have experienced the roller coaster ride of either anorexia-nervosa or bulimia, oftentimes a sufferer like Ritchie would look in the mirror and fear that she is still "too fat"!!

Awful...

Now, I will most likely get bashed for sharing some of the comments I made over at Mark's blog here, but it needs to be said.


Such a disturbing post!

So many young women have become infertile and find that they can't have children because their bodily functions start to shut down in a "prior to death" way. It's so extremely sad!

Since I have a 19 year old daughter in the acting and modeling industry, I have seen the pressure placed upon her to be extremely thin. Fortunately, she has a good head on her shoulders and is working with a personal trainer who encourages her to eat small portions 6 times a day and work out to gain muscle and lose body fat. As the last paragraph in the this article reveals, eating healthy and exercising properly is the healthy way to attain a nice shape.

Thankfully, not all young women are falling for the lie.

Nicole Ritchie looks as bad as the starving children we see on TV in the Christian missionary help ads! Someone needs to rescue that young woman from her current journey towards an early death!

In the past, I have read several articles where it is suspected that some (not all) gay men clothing designers are partly responsible for this anorexia and bulimia epidemic amongst young women. The desire to be a size "2" or "0" (which is totally unhealthy for a 5' 7" woman!) seems to be foremost in the minds of would-be, up and coming, and current, actresses and models.

Why is this so?

Many gays admire that "young boy look" and thus apply that way of thinking to the female bodies of models.

Unfortunately, women in the designer clothing industry, who urge young girls who are 5' 8" and up to weigh in at an unhealthy 110 lbs. (and under!) have also fallen for the same insane lie. All they care about is how the clothes "drape" on the model...not whether or not she has a healthy diet.

Fortunately, there are a few designers, like Giorgio Armani, who are willing to speak out against this unhealthy and dangerous modeling trend.



It is a dangerous trend that needs to be brought out into the open, countered, and stopped...for the sakes of many young women (and the girls that want to emulate them) who are dying young because of it!

HT: Chester Street

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Update: Check out this list of celebs who have suffered from various eating disorder afflictions here.