I have suffered from Anorexia for 12 years and have thought about it and why it is for a long time. But really there is a lot of pressure from society to be thin, and it starts when girls are young. Think about it, have you ever had or seen a fat Barbie Doll? And similar dolls girls play with are thin, beautiful and way too perfect. It starts then, that we learn or get the impression that is how we should be. Also most of the most famous and wanted females are the thin models or actresses. If you did a poll of men as to they think is the hottest girls are the majority are going to ramble off some thin sexy model or actress. There is so much pressure to be thin to be wanted and desired. You can not even walk into a supermarket without being bombared with weight loss magazines or some other magazine for women that reads Lose 10 pounds fast or New Miracle Diet Most All magazines for women well have at leadt one article on how to lose weight ot get in shape. Check it out sometime, Cosmo, Glamour, Women’s Day all of them have at least one way or some article on weight loss. And all those magazines always show you perfectly thin and in shape models doing their workout programs. Very rarely will you see an overweight women on those pages.

being a 16yr old girl and bein worried bout my weight. i think the biggest reason is hollywood celebs constantly being slatted if they put weight on. it also doesnt help when you can hear all the guys going omg shes fit bout some size 8 celeb

i can only speak for myself… i want clothes to fit well and good on me……

Media. I watch shows like Americas Next Top Model and feel fat! I know I dont have a perfect body, but I thought I was thin before I saw people like this.

They r afraid of what other people(guys) think.

They see images of very thin models and actresses on televison, magazine covers, and clothing ads. Some young girls think that they have to be ultra thin in order to be pretty, achieve success, be rich, get the cute guy, etc. and then they start down the road to self destruction.

There are a couple reasons, one is the media. It distorts what a girls self-image should be. There are also skinny, pretty girls everywhere on TV, in magazines, in the movies, etc. The media also gets on stars when it looks like they have gained a couple pounds, ask any actress and they will tell you there is constant scrutiny to be thin. Then there is the public perception that overweight girls are lazy, men don’t get the same public perception when they are overweight. Plus, think about your days in High School, weren’t the popular girls all thin and pretty. You grow up thinking that in order to be popular you must look like them….think and pretty. I’ve even heard one where it has been blamed on the Barbie Doll. Barbie was supposed to be an anatomically perfect female.

America needs to lose fat. But it is wanting to lose it in 2 weeks that is the problem.

With all this scare of anorexia, there are fewer anorexics out there than obese, unhealthy people. People have to rethink the approach as being lifestyle changes and not short term crash diets.

MEDIA

media, popular culture, society, our world is f*cked up, sometimes a pre-occupation with weight can be a way to hide real feelings, some girls have this obsession with weight because they are unable to or don’t know how to deal with negative emotions so they focus it all on what they think that they can change-their bodies. this is irrational, but so is war, starvation, corruption…our world is just plain f*cked up!