In short, no, they shouldn't, but the fashion and media industry has effectively press ganged us into believing they are beautiful and you should look like them.
Through years of airbrushing and bony, skinny models of both sexes in fashion ads and magazines and newspapers jumping on celebrities for gaining half a pound or getting a spot on our bum we have been turned into a self-conscious nation of calorie counters, feeling guilt-ridden for eating anything more than an un-dressed salad of leaves. The thing is, we have now become an unhealthy nation at two extremes, obese and super skinny, the former eating easy ready meals and takeaways and getting fatter, the latter ditching higher calorie healthy foods to lose weight fast, neither of which are even slightly healthy and both are the result of modern and unnecessary pressures on the human psyche, resulting of anxiety, depression and stress.
The media have a responsibility to their readership and should not praise the image of an unhealthy person as an image of beauty, especially in magazines read by impressionable young people and teenagers who need to eat properly and exercise regularly, the image people should aspire to be.
Friday, 22 October 2010
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I kind of agree with what you are saying, but as a fashion student, clothes do look better on a size 4 than on a size 16 for example. I don't agree with women thinking they should be a size 4 to be accepted through looking at advertisments, but there are a lot of healthy size 4's who do eat a normal healthy diet. It is a model's job to keep a certain weight, otherwise they wouldn't get any work! Being slim is their job.
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