I just finished reading an article on what 4 different ladies have to say about the thinness obsession that is evident in this day an age. After having gone through the interview, I noticed that some of their answers contradicted with either their profession or with their perception on beauty. Like one of them happened to be a beauty therapists.. i’m sorry but while, they just put oil and massage your skin at the spa, i’d like to think my beauty therapist knows a thing or two about being beautiful. This therapist however felt insecure about her body shape…. in fact all 4 women were. You know what really sucks thought about this skinny mentality. Is how much the media or more so man, has psychoed us into thinking that in order to be happy you have to be skinny. What the heck! If you are born skinny – high metabolic rate – that’s fine, but to want to make yourself ultra skinny like so…

Also another thing, in campaigns such as the Dove evolution, the Campaign For Real Beauty. While it was brilliant, and it showed of real women as beautiful, whereby they do not need to have perfect breats, perfect uplifted bum and non-orange peely skin. The truth of the matter, is that it won’t sell. Maybe it will get people thinking, but seeing a person that’s quite large or very large in their under garments is not exactly everyone’s cup of tea. You guys out there, boys and girls, what do you think when you see an ad with a large person in it? Point is that the case of “real beauty” is still a misconception. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and not PHOTOSHOP!

Also how many of the girls out there these days are real? Meaning what girl out there – that have the money and are in Hollywood anyway – has actually not gone for some beautifying treatment? Be it some slimming salon, popping a slimming pill or even going under the knife? What are people like Nicole Richie and Victore Becks doing… starving themselves to death? Victoria had three children, and she’s looking no where like the glow she should be having after pregnancy…

 

Why can’t the media be actually encouraging a healthier lifestyle rather than doing all the things that shock your system and most likely will not be healthy for ones body, let alone even maintain that good looking ’slimness’. Already bad enough that most women out there, are unhappy with at least one feature about themselves… And males… oh you males out there who admire the gorgeous and skinny and voluptuous.. do you actually think you make the females who already insecure about themselves since an age as early as 8 years old, any better, when you tell them that you want them to look like so and so from this magazine… my gowssh! So QUIT IT! I shall admit that I had gone to a slimming salon once, called Unisense. To be honest, while I did lose weight, the weight did not seem to stay off forever. Most of what I found the salon doing was making sure I was on a strict diet of purely proteins – no carbs, no fruits after 8, no milk…. a lot of no’s…It sucked! Plus they said I was not allowed to do any exercise, because it would affect the process of breaking fat molecules. I can bet with you those ladies who wet for those slimming salons won’t even be able to last in a 5 minute run. Sure it maybe a fast way of losing, weight but I still believe that good ol’ exercising and a healthy diet will pull through with more long term benefits. The Thin Obsession, was an issue in slightly earlier years and still an issue in our day and age today. Culture and ideology has made as such as we have been brought up to think the thin = beautiful. Disagree with if you’d like.