Fashion & models that wear the so called "fashion" are most of the time people that girls look up to & "want to be like, or look like" one day. They are usually beautiful, thin, tall & have guys swarming them all the time.
To us, they are what we are "supposed" to look like, or that's at least how it seems. Even though it may seem this way, we really have gotten it all wrong. These girls make the clothes they are wearing looking great (most of the time) & make us want to go out & buy them. But why SO skinny lately? Can't they just be thin, not BONE & SKIN THIN??
An article from USA Today even stats they these are the people that little girls look up to, & by the models being so thin, we are sending out a terrible message to little girls, who usually have body image issues anyways (Hemrich, par. 2). She makes a good point & states that these girls are "unnatural" & that's exactly what it comes down to. These girls are NOT normal, even though sometimes we seem to think that is the new "normal". This is not how we should want to look, or aspire to look like. We have to teach our little girls today differently. We don't want them to grow up TRYING to look like this!
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Wanting to look this thin can even lead girls into playing around with eating disorders such as anorexia &/or bulimia. But to them, when they start to look boney & skeleton-y...they think they finally look "normal" & have reached the look they were going for..just like these models! See how our world has warped us to believe in the new "normal". We haven't gotten it all wrong! To me, these woman actually look sick & scary!
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It all starts when girls are young. They see beautiful celebrities & models on TV & aspire to be like them...have bodies like them, dress like them, drive certain cars like them, have the same hair as them etc. But they have really gotten it all wrong. Some of these woman are TOO thin, but no one tells these little girls this!
I know that if I ever have a little girl, as she grows up, I will point out to her that these woman & girls aren't "normal" that they are too thin & that it is NOT attractive, because it's not. THere is nothing attractive about skin & bone! We all need to try & do a better job at who we look up & aspire to be like, because the world has it all wrong.