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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health, Media
Outrage over ultra thin models is reaching more and more ears. A mother of a 21 year-old Brazilian model who recently died from complications stemming from anorexia, is asking mothers everywhere to be aware of the early signs of anorexia. She says that the continual use of of images depicting underweight women perpetuates the idea that unhealthily thin bodies are beautiful.I can't agree more with the poor mother. My daughter is tall, skinny and striking with her unusual hair and eyes. Everywhere we go women and men praise her body shape and tell her she should be a model so that she can take advantage of her "ideal body". I always tell these people that my daughter is more than just a husk of "physical idealness"; she is smart, funny and ambitious. I know they mean well, but they are simply continuing the stupidity an underweight body is an ideal body.
My daughter comes by her shape naturally. He father is tall and thin and both of his biological parents are tall and thin. I sometimes envy her as I spy my curves in the mirror, but I don't tell her this. I tell her how proud I am of her reading abilities, her athletic prowess and her academic successes. I just hope she can make it through life without the body image myth causing her to starve herself.
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11-20-2006 @ 7:00PM
LB said...My God, Heather where did you find that picture. Is that Ana?
What sick person put that girl in a bikini instead of in an ambulance? It boggles the mind.
I have no idea what's going to happen, but Twiggy the Twit sez it's not the modeling industry's fault but Hollywood, natch-
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23375015-details/Twiggy%20lashes%20out%20at%20'size%20zero'%20actresses/article.do
If models are naturally thin, why did Ana have to starve and die? The show sTwitty works for has been at best neutral to the issue. They seemed pained when advancing Robin in the first season and didn't some contestant lose a ton of weight to get on the show?
sad
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11-20-2006 @ 7:45PM
Zepp said...LB Thanks for link!
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11-20-2006 @ 10:45PM
Jen said...The sad thing is, kids are learning what is a "socially" acceptable body type at earlier and earlier ages when they are so susceptible. The other day I was at the grocery store and overheard a woman scolding her (i'm guessing) 8 year old daughter. The girl was not skinny, but by no means overweight. Her mother was telling her to stop riding on the cart because she's "too heavy"..she then proceeded to blurt out over and over again how much the girl weighed and that she "can't be pushing something that heavy around". I would have just brushed it off if the mom didn't just keep driving home the point of how much the girl weighed. I felt so bad for the little girl. The ironic thing was the mother was no light-weight herself...and maybe that was the central issue - her own desire to be thin. Who knows...all I know is that it is our job as parents to teach our children that what's on the nside is far more important than what's on the outside - and that we should strive to be "healthy" not a specific weight.
http://www.NaturalSkinCareSite.com
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11-20-2006 @ 11:41PM
Heather said...who is that model? is that the model that died. If not and that girl is alive someone needs to get her help NOW!. If they know she is that way and do nothing about it and encourage it they should be charged with something.
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11-21-2006 @ 7:30AM
Heather said...That is NOT the model who died. I think you owe it to your readers to A) give some background on the photo you used and B) repost this with a correct photo of the model. Shame on you for deliberately misinforming your readers.
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11-21-2006 @ 11:01AM
ann adams said...According to the article, Ana was 5'8" and weighed 88 lbs. That's a skeleton and so is the girl in the photo, whoever she is.
Our middle girl (almost 12) worries sometimes about her weight. She's 5'2" (tall for her age) and weighs around 90 lbs. She's fine; actually a little on the slim side and beautiful inside and out.
We do a lot of talking about the phoniness of the images she sees and the damage caused by trying to look like them. I'll probably save this article to show her.
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11-21-2006 @ 11:59AM
Michelle said...Looks like some good PhotoShop manipulation. I seriously doubt that a model looking that emaciated would be walking the runway. I think you should explain where you got the photo. Looks suspicious.
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11-21-2006 @ 3:54PM
Heather said...The featured picture is not the model who died. It was not my intention to give the impression that it was.
This is an image I found on the internet. There is nothing irresponsible about showing this image. If I had tried to pass it off as Ana, that would be one thing, but I did not.
You can click on the article link if you would like to see a picture of the model that died.
The point of the post is not whether or not the featured pictured actually depicted the model. It is about the unrealistic pressures society puts on girls and women to be thin and how the modeling indusrty supports this.
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11-21-2006 @ 4:54PM
Ginny said..."The featured picture is not the model who died. It was not my intention to give the impression that it was. "
When I read the post...before the other Heather brought up the picture...I assumed it was NOT the model to whom you were referring. I think she might have been the only one to assume you were saying that was the model in the story.
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11-21-2006 @ 6:41PM
Michelle said...I actually found this picture on an Internet hoax site. I seriously doubt it's authenticity. While I'm in agreement about the mixed messages young women are hearing these days regarding body image, I don't think using a doctored photo of a model does much to further the healthy attitudes we'd like our girls to attain.
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