Today I found an article that shows that disordered eating is linked to body shapes that are shown in the mass media. It showed that the more a person favored a certain celebrity the more they wanted their bodies to be like that of the celebrity. This article was called: Relationships Between Body-Shape Discrepancies With Favored Celebrities and Disordered Eating in Young Women. I was fairly sure prior to reading this article that women looked up to and strived to be like the people that they see on TV, billboards, runways, and in movies. This was proved in the article but, I also wanted to see how realistic these aspirations were. I found another article called Celebrity Bodies and it laid out how much torture people, especially celebrities, put themselves through to be “beautiful”. This article states that the average American woman is 5’4”, 140 pounds and wears a size 14. The average American model is seven inches taller, 23 pounds lighter and 12-14 sizes smaller. So, how is it fair that we put ourselves up to these unrealistic standards? The article also covers how one model who died at a weight of 90 pounds ate only water, coffee, and toast for two years straight. A famous actress, Mischa Barton, supposedly eats only lettuce leaves. I think there is a definite line between being skinny and being deathly skinny and having a serious problem. In Dollhouse all of the girls are thin, eat nothing during meals, and are seen running on treadmills in almost every episode. This is yet another problem that our media helps create, giving people the idea that in order for them to look like this they must starve themselves as well.
Harris, Daniel. "Celebrity Bodies." Southwest Review. 135-144. Southern Methodist University, 2008. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
Louise Hinton, et al. "Relationships Between Body-Shape Discrepancies With Favored Celebrities and Disordered Eating in Young Women." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 38.5 (2008): 1364-1377. SocINDEX with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
Harris, Daniel. "Celebrity Bodies." Southwest Review. 135-144. Southern Methodist University, 2008. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
Louise Hinton, et al. "Relationships Between Body-Shape Discrepancies With Favored Celebrities and Disordered Eating in Young Women." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 38.5 (2008): 1364-1377. SocINDEX with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
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