Because I'm so out of touch with the internet (yeah right!
) my mother today showed me a Dove Video called "Evolution". I don't think she showed it to me as a result of any insecurities (I'm not fat at all, but I wouldn't mind my belly to be a little flatter if you know what I mean
lol ) but mainly because she found it interesting after we were talking and I told her about how I met many girls who happened to be very careful with their weight (I am careful, mind you)... and looking at magazines hoping they looked like that cover girl.
I'm aware most if not all of model photos are photoshoped, but you know, for a woman, it's sometimes hard to believe the model on the cover doesn't look half as "perfect". Often they end up not even looking like themselves. Those little pooches below the eyes... most everyone has them, even your favorite stars! But why oh WHY aren't they appearant on those covers? Why do their bodies look so damned perfect with "Achieve the perfect body in 20 days!" It's ridiculous, and I admit it got to me even though I KNOW I it's all photoshoped nowadays. And me telling some of these people that it's all photoshop seems to prick their bubbles a little bit. I don't mean to be mean, but I sometimes felt like I'm brought down as a result - I feel sluggish. ugly, even fat even though I'm 135 lbs in a 5"3 body! Sure I used to be smaller but I grew older too. I'm not fat, but I feel it sometimes as a result. But this commercial helped me feel a little better somehow. Nobody has perfect skin, sorry to say so. Everyone has blemishes and the "perfect" hourglass figure does not exist.
I invite you all to give this video a good look:
[link]And also, this little vid that came with it:
[link] The girl's already gorgeous but... not enough apparently, would you believe?
And then they wonder why a lot of women's self esteem is low, why there's so many eating disorders (I met a girl who refused to eat for 2 weeks to lose weight fast, thinking it was the only way), and why so many feel they can never be good enough.
Luckily I'm not to that point, but like everyone, I have my own insecurities.
Also, although these show only women being photoshoped, know that men go through the very same thing. Sometimes the repercussions are even worst for them.
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The fact of the matter is I've been skinny my entire life, no matter how much I eat, which I actually feel guilty for. My mother was slightly overweight, and she was bulimic because of it. I guess I'll never really be able to understand how it feels to be "fat". But I do understand insecurity. Don't ever let anyone else tell you what is and is not beautiful. Even the nice little subliminal messages that the media leaves out there for you.
Remember when you were a little girl playing dress up and thinking how pretty you were? Skinny and fat had no meaning then, and it shouldn't now. The same goes for men.
And Maria, I could never understand why you'd be insecure about your looks. You're beautiful, and if we were both single and lesbians, I'd come running in half a second.
Took me an entire day to realize I was just being silly. But in thinking about it, I also realize that all along I KNEW I shouldn't be upset.. it just took a while to sink in. That reaction is so ingrained into our minds..
I read an article today about people taking their kids (9-13 years old, mind you) in to get hair removal treatments.
One woman was trying to book her 8-year old daughter for a bikini wax. And it wasn't like some cases where girls need to get hair removed from their faces or legs because they get teased by other children.. this was a bikini wax and it was because the mother was so fixated with trying to get her child to become a supermodel.
Society just gets worse and worse! Especially on the younger generations! They set the standard for 'beauty' at such ridiculous heights that people make themselves miserable trying to reach it!
And why beauty? Why should that the most important thing in life? Why not knowledge? Family? Morals? It makes me sick.
It's so unfair. And if it's this bad now, I wonder what it's going to be like in 15 more years.
-TW
That being said, I find parents who are fixated on making their children supermodels are excessively bad parents. Children aren't meant to know what the term "beauty" means until they've reached their adulthood if you ask me (or maybe late teen years). Children need to go out and play and be carefree. I saw a show once where this 5 year old picked a fit at someone because he make-up was done wrong. I don't think I even knew make-up existed when I was 5. >_>
I agree it's become ridiculous... I went to a spa yesterday with some friends and all I could think about was that little pooch on my tummy that I wish would disappear. I was there to relax (I did) but a lot of times I was mourning with myself about how I could look like this girl, or that girl over there. It's very sad... After a while I convinced myself to stop being such a baby and to enjoy myself.
I really don't wanna know what it's gonna be in 15 years... But it's well known trends change. Right now skinny's the best look (and some girls still get teased because they're skinny?! ) but 60 years ago skinny didn't have 0 dimension, and 200 years ago, the fatter you were, the wealthier and the more beautiful you were considered. So I have no doubt it'll eventually turn around... maybe not in our lifetime though.
I knew a girl who decided to barely eat for 2 weeks. She was already overweight due to bad eating habits and could not understand why she couldn't lose the pounds permanently. Sadly she didn't want to understand when I explained it to her. And then I get the "You wouldn't understand! You've always been so small!" Well yes, it's true my metabolism has been pretty good thus far (though slowing down in the past couple of years so I gotta watch myself a little more) but it doesn't mean I don't understand.
And as you said, after that your appetite gets all messed-up and that also gets dangerous.