Rushing to the bathroom after a meal to purge every last bit that has just been inhaled or not consuming enough calories for days on end to feel comfortable leaving the house is only a portion of what eating disorder sufferer’s and distorted self-image victims go through. In the United States there is up to 24 million people of all genders and ages deteriorating from an eating disorder such as Anorexia, Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia; 70 million individuals worldwide endure from the same tragedies (American Psychiatric Association). Communication by publication or broadcast surrounds us with images of the “thin ideal” for people that lays down a foundation of insecurity for everyone; This “ideal” frame type is only obtainable by 5% of americans
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The amount of hours 8 -18 year olds are engaged on some sort of publishing resource on a common day is about about 7.5 hours (ANAD). On these applications, many commercials or advertisements endorsing weight loss are prevalent and provide an unexpected and eye-raising information that intrigue these martyrs. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 47% of girls in fifth to twelfth grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures and 69% of girls in the same grades reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect physique shape (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders). These girls are on their way to travel down a long, depressing path of self-hatred and self-mutilation; no one sane would want this horrifying lifestyle for their daughters or loved …show more content…
Real-life manikin’s are paraded around on television as the acceptable “normal person”, when in reality most of them are thinner than 98% of American women. The average american woman is 5”4’ and weighs 140 pounds, while the average model is 5”11’ and weighs 117 pounds (Smolak, L). Not only has the media affected people outside looking in, but inside of the corporations itself. The “fake” industry does not lack on the amount of horror stories regarding innocent, naive subjects going to dangerous lengths to meet impossible physical standards that the evil puppeteers have wired into their brains. According to a survivor of this monster, model Georgina Wilkin, "[her] agent told [her] I looked great when I [had not] eaten for 48 hours. At one point [she] was hospitalized because [she] was so ill -- a few weeks later [she] was booked for a Prada campaign" (Krupnick, Ellie). According to Georgina Wilkin, who said she has seen people pluck out their own teeth to look skinny to models digesting cotton balls to stay full, there needs to be more awareness and bring about reform to the atrocities that the correspondences of corrupt agencies has and will continue to
The amount of hours 8 -18 year olds are engaged on some sort of publishing resource on a common day is about about 7.5 hours (ANAD). On these applications, many commercials or advertisements endorsing weight loss are prevalent and provide an unexpected and eye-raising information that intrigue these martyrs. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 47% of girls in fifth to twelfth grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures and 69% of girls in the same grades reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect physique shape (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders). These girls are on their way to travel down a long, depressing path of self-hatred and self-mutilation; no one sane would want this horrifying lifestyle for their daughters or loved …show more content…
Real-life manikin’s are paraded around on television as the acceptable “normal person”, when in reality most of them are thinner than 98% of American women. The average american woman is 5”4’ and weighs 140 pounds, while the average model is 5”11’ and weighs 117 pounds (Smolak, L). Not only has the media affected people outside looking in, but inside of the corporations itself. The “fake” industry does not lack on the amount of horror stories regarding innocent, naive subjects going to dangerous lengths to meet impossible physical standards that the evil puppeteers have wired into their brains. According to a survivor of this monster, model Georgina Wilkin, "[her] agent told [her] I looked great when I [had not] eaten for 48 hours. At one point [she] was hospitalized because [she] was so ill -- a few weeks later [she] was booked for a Prada campaign" (Krupnick, Ellie). According to Georgina Wilkin, who said she has seen people pluck out their own teeth to look skinny to models digesting cotton balls to stay full, there needs to be more awareness and bring about reform to the atrocities that the correspondences of corrupt agencies has and will continue to