Nicole Richie: 'I'm Too Thin'

Thin Nicole Richie, whose 16-month-long weight loss appears to have veered into dangerous territory.

"She looks like a skeleton," said one insider who spent the evening at the new Tinseltown hotspot. "I was horrified at how skinny she is."

"She's been thin for a while," says a source, "but now her chest is practically concave and her legs are thin pins"

todays, people have to be abnoramlly thin, have to fit in a size 8 or maybe 6, have to thin like model, or even plastic surgeon to make themselves beautiful, and perfect.

how they preceive fat?

how fat is fat?y most of the gurl saying themselves fat eventho they aint"?what's in their mind?from size 14 to size 8, no eating to starve themselves




omg wut r they thinking?




skinny is everything the girls want?

thought

Body Image and the Media




The media has such an impact on body image and how people feel about themselves. Teenagers, especially, are affected by the popular culture and how they see the celebrities they admire and how they behave. Unfortunately, most teenagers develop an imperfect and flawed body image of themselves because of the emphasis placed on weight in today's media.Recently in the news, gossip followers have watched stars like Lindsay Lohan and Mary Kate Olsen struggle with their weight and the issues of anorexia and bullemia. With role models like these two impacting young girls today, I believe girls are developing a complex and a lack of self-esteem and confidance. Personally, I believe that all shapes and sizes should be represented on television and in the movies, where young girls gawk at their celebrity idols. Disney currently has a show called "That's so Raven," which depicts several shapes, sizes, and races - especially the lead character, Raven, who is a young black female with "curves" and a shape. With this representation of a young female, young viewers of the show are given the example of a woman with a shape (not stick thin) that is famous and beautiful. I believe that if stations implement more shows with this idea, girls with gain more of an understanding of a healthy body and physique.

found some video about body image, anorexic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ri3C_ut-8&search=body%20image

this is ironic, people makin' website to support people to be [Pro-Anorexia]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNcvvmBrtnw&search=anorexia

slim trend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_q-dWckG0c&search=anorexia

the thinning woman on media"

i believe body image on tv does affect viewers, as a result of the extremely thin females alwayz seen on tv, many americans feel overweight, eventho they may b an average size. Meida portay the message that happiness and success come with a thin body.The joys in life such as power, popularity, friends, and success are seen to come easily to the beautiful, thin characters on television. Characters who are overweight are often perceived as failures, lonely, or rejected. They are often the target of jokes and humiliation.


Both genders may be greatly affected by the images on television, but females are more likely to be targeted by these messages. Successful women are young and thin, while the appearance and age range for successful men. The female viewer may assume that she must lose weight to obtain power. The media imply that there are shortcuts to make the average female look and feel as thin and desirable as the women seen on television. Commercials suggest that the average woman wants to lose weight to resemble current actresses and models. The message assumes that the average person is not thin enough to be viewed as a beautiful person in society.

While many of the women seen on television are becoming thinner, an average weight female may view herself as overweight, which could lead to eating disorders. Women account for 90 to 95 percent of all people who suffer from eating disorders, and men comprise the remaining five to ten percent.Those who watch television at least three nights a week are fifty percent more likely than non-viewers to feel overweight or fat. Fifteen percent of the viewers admitted to vomiting to lose weight, and two-thirds of the female viewers dieted as a result of the images they saw.
The two most common eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, affect over five million Americans. Thousands of these people die from physical problems resulting from these illnesses.

meanwhile body image also affect people who is on the tv eating disorders have not only affected the television watching population. The necessity to be thin has plagued women actresses, models, and singers for decades. In the late 1960s, singer Karen Carpenter felt compelled to lose weight to appear more attractive. She was put on a water diet to bring her weight down from 140 pounds to 120. After she received positive compliments from her family and friends, she accelerated the dieting and lost more weight. In 1975, Carpenter weighed 80 pounds and vomited the little food she ate. She struggled with anorexia for the remaining years of her life until her death at the age of 32. The singer died from cardiac arrest caused by heart strain as a result of the anorexia.

Actress Tracey Gold of Growing Pains struggled with anorexia for several years. She was dieting by eating only 500 calories a day, while a typical diet requires 1,800 calories, and went from 133 pounds to 113 pounds in two months. After Gold achieved her ideal weight, she could not stop dieting. When the actress' weight went down to 90 pounds, she was forced to leave Growing Pains for professional help. Eventually, Gold recovered from the disease to live a healthy life.

did u c how media affect us a lot?"winkwink"

Being thin.?

I recently read an article by J.K Rowling which made me thought a lot. Sometime i just dun understand, why some celebrities need to make themselves as thin as they can, eventho they are with substanial talent, a good singing voice and good educational background in music or film. The look might indicate that their ticket to success, but the question is why would i woman who's already succeded because of her talent(even wen she is overweight) want to lose weight? to attract more fans?(would she really?)to look better?newaiz what does it mean to look better?

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. What is beautiful for me isn't beautiful for others. But generally speaking, 0ur society doesn't treat overweight people as beautiful. So did those people who wanna lose weight ll b more socially acceptable, to come closer to being beautiful?


i reckon it is absurd. You have to be abnormally thin, you have to look like a model, have perfect hair and make-up and matching clothing and only then you're considered beautiful. Like J.K. Rowling says, it doesn't matter if you're a benevolent person, if you're happy, energetic, witty, intelligent, broad-minded or independent, it only matters whether you're thin or not. I believe it's also got to do with weak self-esteem.


People seem to love skinny people, our culture values extreme thinness, but hardly ever taking into account that many actresses/singers/spoilt, rich brats have unfulfilling personal lives, marred by depression, constant fear of losing popularity, addiction, divorce or inability to form fullfiling and lasting relationships. The biggest achievement of the skinny girls is that they're just that: thin.Being thin matters very little in the grand scope of things and yet our society makes such a big thing out of it. Why? Is fat really so unattractive? Is a rounder face so disgusting? Is a fuller behind a sin?What I think is a sin is not taking care of yourself.

Again, a fuller body is not a sin. If you're embitered, full of hatred, have a propensity to be mean to others, are revengeful, disinterested, uneducated because of your own laziness and hate yourself, that's a far bigger sin than just the fact that you're fat.In order to be more healthy, overweight people should aspire to lower their weight, but not because then they'll look better, but because they'll have much lower risk for suffering an infarction and other cardiovascular complications, which are the number one cause of mortality among Slovenians.

Sadly, most people diet because they want to look better. They might lose weight, but their negative attitude towards themselves won't change, it will stay with them and perpetuate the negativity directed against themselves. It hardly comes as a surprize that only 2% of Slovenian women, accorting to a Dove research, consider themselves beautiful. It shocks me. There are more than 2% of thin women in Slovenia, so thinness is not something that makes you feel beautiful or special. The women on Dove billboards, who are 89 years old, have lots of freckles over face and body, are overweight, have a crooked nose respectively... aren't ugly. They're beautiful, but not by the standards of bleached-blondes with artificial boobs, a Twiggy-like-feather-light body, a rhinoplasty and collagen implants in their lips. Have you ever paused to think how very ALIKE all these women look?

pop culture and media

The media is such an impact on body image and how people feel abouth themselves. Teenagers, especially are affected by the popular culture and how they see the celebrities they admire and how they behave. Unfortunately, most teenagers develop an imperfecta nd flawed body image of themselves because of the emphasis placed on weight in today's media.


In news, gossip followers have watched stars like Lindsay Lohan and Mary Kate Olsen struggle with their weight and the issues of anorexia and bullemia. With role models like those two impacting young girls today, I believe girls are developing a complex and a lack of self-esteem + confidence.

Personally, I believe that all shapes and size should be represented on TV and in the movies, where young girl gawk at their celebrity idols.Disney currently has a show called "That's so Raven," which depicts several shapes, sizes, and races - especially the lead character, Raven, who is a young black female with "curves" and a shape. With this representation of a young female, young viewers of the show are given the example of a woman with a shape (not stick thin) that is famous and beautiful. I believe that if stations implement more shows with this idea, girls with gain more of an understanding of a healthy body and physique.
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however some people believes that thin like models is what they want, but the thin looks really unhealthy it is totally effect to the human health. Through the process as helping themselves to loss weight, problem such as eating disorder, anorexia, bullemia, using of medication and drug has becum a risk to health.

Y is this happen is mostly matter with genetic, psychological and socialogical.


“Model” Stop super thin `anorexia chic’

perfection

These shows the different times of what people think of their "perfection", this is what they found it attractive.In the old times, people desire to be fat which they think is good and symbolize of wealthy; compare to nowadays it shows a contrast people desire to be as thin as they can, this is what they mean by beautiful. They try all the methods to make themselves to achieve their goal.


however, in different perspective each of them have their way of beauty and it's perfection.


before
fat is beautiful?





after
thin is beautiful?

16th century's body image

I found some artworks show the woman in old times, nearly most of the artworks show a pale, white, large size female portrait. compare in different culture they look similar in some ways. fat = wealthy, this might be their symbolize in the old time.

body image

What is Body Image?

How you see or picture yourself.

How you feel others perceive you.

What you believe about your physical appearance.

How you feel about your body.

How you feel in your body.

Body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions, and physical sensations of and about our bodies. It s not static- but ever changing; sensitive to changes in mood, environment, and physical experience. It is not based on fact. It is psychological in nature, and much more influenced by self-esteem than by actual physical attractiveness as judged by others. It is not inborn, but learned. This learning occurs in the family and among peers, but these only reinforce what is learned and expected culturally.

is that what we perceive as the perfect body image?

woman with bound feet?



the long neck ladies (padaung)?


woman who have smallest waist?






smile with black teeth?



beaty = bone?




body modification?tattoo?piercing?Scarification?




Dennis Smith, the cat man


body image?is these kind of things a MUST HAVE?

abstract

Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness, the ability to cope with everyday activities, physical fitness, and high quality of life. Health is maintained through the science of medicine, but can also be improved by individual effort. Physical fitness, weight loss, healthy eating, stress management training and stopping smoking and other susbstance abuse are examples of steps to improve one's health. Seems diet is now a popular issue today, where people desire to have the perfection and anorexic especially for girl they trying to make themselves the skinniest as possible. It is also a matter of body image, where people are trying to become the ideal image; compare with different cultures they have their own defination of a perfect bodyimage.In the history the bound feet, the long neck ladies (Padaung), corsets, people who have big ear pierce, black teeth, become as fat as possible, these are the bodyimage which people desire. However some of them is actually harming their body.

These are the points that I will develop with the work we are doing. Each points will explain clearly throughout the outcome. I will start investigate with internet and news which is related to the theme, also I would like to corporate with people who are in different culture background then to understand their point of view about health.