Women and the Media

So we all know that models have to be a certain size to walk on a fashion runway and that means they have plenty of pressure put on them by the designers.  They have to be able to fit in the designs that have been created without the piece being altered and women who view these models have horrible perceptions of their bodies after seeing these stick thin models in magazines like Vogue and many women will try anything to look like that.

Which affects women between the ages of 15 to 21 years of age to suffer from an eating disorder, which leads to complications in health and can unfortunately lead to death.  Young women are negatively affected by the images of overly skinny models which results in many young girls hating their body for not looking like the Victoria Secret angels or like the models during the fashion weeks. 

Victoria's Secret Fashion show 

 Nowadays girls as early as the age of 10 feel as if they are "fat" they will not be accepted by their peers and so they begin to diet and much has do to what they see on the media which includes magazines and television.  Although a lot of people may be skeptical to what an eating disorder is, it in fact is a mental illness which in 50 percent of people affected with eating disorders do suffer from depression and eating disorders also have the highest mortality weight of any other mental illness.  Many of the 24 million people affected with eating disorders only a fraction of those people get the help they need.  Every year there are new cases and unfortunately the people affected get younger, such as young girls in grade school between the ages of 6-12.

Models during São Paulo fashion week

 The media affects developing minds and we put so much emphasis on skinny models that many women feel that they must fit in this mold to be accepted in society and most of the time society does put these constraints of weight on young women.  Postdoctoral researcher Shelly Gabe said that it doesn't matter whether it's an image from a primetime television show or a magazine ad or a computer ad, if the image is focused on a women's body as an object then it will affect women. Read article here 

Although we have advanced in many things during the 21st century, for some reason eating disorders are still rising in numbers ever since the 1950s. Most of it has to do with people viewing models in ads that have below normal body weigh and no matter what measures have been taken, not much has changed.  

Just remember that no matter how thin that model is in theVogue ad, every women is beautiful no matter what dress size you are.