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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:11 pm
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So, watching a program about a woman trying to become a size zero (UK size 4), I became rather disgusted that women try to aspire to this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6305657.stm
Most, if not all, size 00 girls are dangerously underweight, to achive this size you basically have to eat nothing, 500 calories is what the estimated intake of a size 00 girl eats. 500. The female body needs at least 1,000 (and that's still a dangerously low amount) to carry on functioning. 2,500 average to maintain weight. Yes, there are natutrally thin women, but of the main 'thinspiration' girls: Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham, Nicole Richie, each of these girls look like a walking skelleton. And they're held in regard as having a 'desirible' body. They are elevated to a status of reverence for being anorexic, or having an anorexic-like appearence, making impressionable young women think they they are ugly for not having the same waif-like appearence no matter how beautiful they actually are.
I've almost headed down the road of anorexia myself, I know the pressure put onto women and girls to achieve the body beautiful. But why must a woman loose her curves to become beautiful in this society. In parts of Africa, it is desired to be larger, it shows success and wealth. In Hollywood, a UK 10/US 6 is "large" (ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!). The ability to stay at a dangerously underweight size shows that you're successful because you can afford the treatment to keep alive.
A friend of mine is anorexic now beacuse her ex-boyfriend made her belive that he would love her more if she because the size of Paris Hilton. What chance to girls now-a-days have of developing a healthy attitude towards rheir body if this is the kind of thing they are being made to think?
I'm a girl that likes her food, and the thought of starving yourself just to become the size of a child quite repulses me. What on earth is the facination with this?
Guys, are you actually attracted to super-skinny women? In my experience, most guys like something they can actually hold, but one did admit that the thought of Paris Hilton turned him on (seriously?!).
Girls, do you feel pressued into achiving this size? Would you actually desire to be that thin?
Anyone else see a strange paradox where large breasts are desired but also a 22 inch waist. How on earth could you support more than a C cup with that waist?! eek
http://www.b-eat.co.uk/Home http://www.mirror-mirror.org/eatdis.htm
**please note: I know that some women are naturally skinny and have a hard time keeping weight on - I'm not slim but I do have issues with maintaining weight myself - this thread is about the women that obsess over their weight to reach a size zero deliberately**
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:13 pm
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-Resurrected Writer- Crew
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:18 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:34 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:40 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:53 pm
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mm, it worries me so much that so many girls are developing serious eating disorders to achive this look, when, in my opinion, most of the women that are that size look so ill it really makes me want to cry.
Some of these girls die from multiple organ failure, and most never fully recover, just because of the media's obssesion with this 'ideal'
I have to admit, if I had to turn lesbian, I'd head for Angelina Jolie, she's hot. Kate Winslet too.
Lindsay Lohan before her size-zerodom was gorgeous, now I hate to say it but she looks like a skeleton....
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:24 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:37 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:18 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:21 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:37 pm
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