Sunday, August 27, 2006

Are Hollywood's actresses giving the O.K. to anorexia?

Are Hollywood's actresses giving the O.K. to anorexia?

Hollywood has been shrinking. Todays starletts are becoming ever so thin. The waif thin gals seem to be in competition with one another to see whom can weigh less. A dangerous game? These women have been gracing our movie screens, our television sets, and our magazines for years and recently they are physically disappearing.
Actresses including Nicole Richie, Kate Bossworth, Lindsey Lohan are losing weight at rapid speed and shocking the world and their fans with an eyesore or skin and only bones.

America's young girls are being exposed to celebrities with weight issues. This subject is always a touchy one. Weight is often a woman's most feared body issue. So when our favorite actresses are sickly, it sends a message or thoughts to fans that thin is in. Can it send a girl struggling with weight issues to limit her caloric intake just so she seek to look like her favorite icon.

Recent magazines show Nicole Richie at her lowest weight yet this year. When doctors estimate her weight at roughly 90 pounds, it makes every girl feel heavy or overweight. Though many see her struggle with this eating disorder, young girls may see it as "I want to look like that" or "I am not thin enough...I am too heavy."

Is the spotlight from stardom feeding these celebrities to barely exist? I feel the competitive edge in the star circle can keep an actresses weight at bay. Maybe its for a role, or maybe its to fight the media of looking average. Well this issue can be passed down onto viewers and fans.

Actress Mary-Kate Olsen suffered from anorexia. The media sought after her like sharks at feeding time. A illness of this sorts should never be highlighted. She was publicly criticized, however, she eventually broke the cycle and confronted her demon. She recieved treatment and came back to normal life and size. She spoke out about her stuggles to help young girls and her fans realize the dangers of anorexia.

Will the other actresses follow down her path? Will it get so bad they need extreme treatment? Will it lead little girls who love these celebrities to take the plunge into the world of eating disorders? One can only hope that these women realize that curves and being healthy is the optimal goal, and slowly bring back the image of a normal woman into persepective. It may take some work to stop the cycle of vicious eating disorders and critical body image, but for the sake of our peers and future generations....it needs to be done.

18 comments:

Kelley said...

The whole skinny celebrity thing is a strange double standard. The problem is that while US Weekly and People show pictures of Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie in teeny weeny bikinis proclaiming their certain battle with eating disorders on one page; they praise them for looking spectacular in designer duds that only look good on waifs on the next. This sends the wrong message to the public and the celebrity. They feel attacked for being too skinny but then praised for looking great in model clothing. I too am guilty of going to the gym and jokingly exclaiming "I want to look like Nicole Richie before I leave here." Even though I know she is way too thin, I halfway believe that as a 5'0 woman I should weigh 95 lbs. instead of the "whopping" 110 I am at now. I think the only way to counter balance this problem is by exposing audiences to many female body types. This way young girls will have someone that looks like them on TV.

Anonymous said...

I think this is a very important topic for young america. Every message sent to young girls is that in order to be attractive they have to be extremelly thin. I agree with you that their is a double standard while some authorities say anorexia and bolimia are bad others maximize media attention on people who are thin and comment on how great they look. What's up with that?

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