The definition of a girl model these days is an extremely tall super slender girl. That is about the only look that works in the fashion industry now. This style is sickly and wafer small. NYC insurance photography and NYC photography insurance can’t even cover these sad ladies’ health under the claim that they are “putting this stress on themselves”. This is becoming a massive ethical problem among the industry and could even potentially be the downer of the fashion industry.
In magazines such as Teen Vogue, Elle, and Seventeen, girls of all young ages are exposed to all the uncovered fashion tips and ways to polish up their look. What these girls are also exposing themselves to by buying these magazines is a false and unhealthy body image. The look that is secretly promoted is the waif look where girls look as if they might slip out of the clothes they are modeling due to their weakness and their lack of body to hold up the clothes. This industry will, of course refuse to accept all these accusations, but in the end, it is clear what they are pushing for these girls.
The “pretty” look for a girl use to be full and playful. Now, what they are considering as pretty, is a weird, warped version of this former view. Now to be pretty, a girl must have her hip bones poking out, and ribs just barely visible. Many people are now asking themselves what happened to the old image and no one can answer that question. This is having a negative effect on girls these days. Clearly it is connected to the rise of eating disorders in the United States of America. Anorexia nervosa is a disease where a person has an compulsive fear of growing overweight. It is now reported that approximately 2 percent of teenage girls are diagnosed with this disorder. This is a giant problem because it is directly due to the way that the media shows women these days.
The media shows slender women all of the time and places them on a pedestal. This is where this issue comes from. Celebrities are influenced by the fashion industry too. Runways and pictures haze young teenagers’ minds with pictures of these skinny figures and make the normal shaped girls feel terrible about their figures. They feel they have to seem like that to be ultimately accepted in society’s twisted eyes. This is why so many of these young girls (and even men) are turning to even more unhealthy alternatives such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and diet pills and are ruining their young, healthy lives.
If kids these days were open to other body images other than the stick figure of runway fashion models they would have a better chance of growing up in a healthier environment. All we need to do as a society is show these small girls that is okay to be curvaceous because that is true beauty. Whatever their body type is, is beautiful and should be accepted by all.
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