Saturday, February 5, 2011

Jessica Ackerman; Zero Is Not A Size


When a child is growing up, he or she looks to celebrities and famous icons as role models. A young boy might aspire to be superman, or maybe a firefighter. However when you ask a female child what they want to be when they grow up a lot of the time you'll hear "I want to be a supermodel." After seeing this picture, it’s hard for me to believe that this woman is even a supermodel, let alone a role model. When I become a mother I hope that my child does not aspire to be anything of the sort. Most models are extremely skinny and the main cause for that is because they are expected to be so. Society today has convinced us that zero, is the only acceptable size, especially in fashion and Hollywood. Having so much pressure on a person could cause them to lose sight of reality and believe the gossip that people say about them. The fact that I can see the ribs of this model really disturbs me because if this woman is supposed to be a role model for young children everywhere. The message that these types of women, and their pictures are sending to children is that in order to be a model, or famous, you need to be skinny. It is important for role models to instill in children that beauty is not only on the outside but also in the inside. It is important for women to show their beauty inside and out. Celebrities, and even the every day people in children’s lives are slowly shaping the person into who they are going to be, its imperative to set a better example for them to follow.



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  1. There is always has been this talk about how America is becoming obese and how we must quickly change our eating habits. Currently I was just watching TV and there was a show on MTV about how teens graduate from high school and wants to lose about 70 lbs before they began to start college. Their trainer pushes them to their limit, which in the end the weight is eventually loss. The way that it is portray how much “better” there life was when they lost the weight leaves the impression that maybe the smaller you are the better your life would be. Even after the training stop, many of the teens said that they plan on losing more weight because it help them gain their confidence back. Nothing is wrong with losing weight to become healthier but when you start losing weight to become extremely thin then it consumes you. Being consumed by your weight is no fun, I feel that it puts a hold back on your life and you cannot really live the way that you want to. However, when supermodels are this skinny and presented in the light of fame with glory, it places a different impression overall on the situation. Some people fail to realize that being this skinny can be just as hazardous to your life, as being obese or maybe even worst. You become weak, and many of your organs began to shut down. The problem is no one wishes to advertise that because when you are fat, your life is far more depressing. smh

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