Fashion Rags: Unhealthy Images in Any Form
The media is blamed primarily for eating disorders in women, and lately going to younger girls.
It’s no wonder they receive so much blame when they show so much in the way of horribly unobtainable images both on the glossy covers and inside the magazines. They admit to using digital imaging to change the body type and overall appearance of models and celebrities to the point where they become completely unrecognizable.
The new trend has lead to a draw to ‘plump’ up celebrities and models to give them a ‘better and healthier’ look. This article over it highlights the trend.
One is forced to assume that the article in question isn’t speaking tongue-in-cheek. It gets a bit hard to tell when you find idioms such as this littered throughout:
“It is now deemed just as negative to be too thin as too fat.
Maybe the rags are simply missing the point.
But Susan Ringwood, the chief executive of the eating disorder charity Beat, condemned the practice. “Altering models’ bodies to appear fuller-figured proves that the industry acknowledges there is a serious issue with projecting images of very thin models, but [it is] missing the point,” she said. “They should be using naturally healthy models in the first instance, instead of having to make them look that way.”
Ringwood makes a fantastic point, bolding is by me.
The same magazines have drastically altered the image of already stunning women in film and television. Changing their appearance to the point they are completely unrecognizable.
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