Celebs too thin?

Teen magazines display celebrity photos to sell products that promote an unhealthy body image to young female fans. The fashion pages of these magazines are full of young stars that are too thin. It is becoming the norm for celebrities to be so skinny that they are often rumoured as having eating disorders. Mary-Kate Olsen was in fact one of the young “teen queen” celebrities who had to go into rehab for her eating disorder http://www.caringonline.com/eatdis/mary_kate_olsen.htm. Teens are constantly being exposed to photos of this body image that is prevalent amongst young stars. The magazines are selling this image to young girls because they are an easy target. They believe that if the latest celebrities look a certain way, then teens will buy into the whole package. Therefore, magazines use the super-thin celebrities as models for their fashion spreads, promoting products that will only look good on super-thin people. When young insecure girls see their idols looking, dressing or acting a certain way, they mimic that behaviour. However, it is nearly impossible for the average person to be as thin as these stars. Young girls get negative self esteem about their bodies, and they do anything to fit into the cookie cutter figure. “27% of Ontario girls 12-18 years engage in highly problematic food and weight control behaviours with 15% of them predicted to develop clinical eating disorders” Coincidence? I think not. Society needs to see that being extremely thin is not as “normal” as the media portrays it to be.


(http://www.nedic.ca was used for facts in this blog)