Stick Thin Models - Who to blame?

Many young teenage girls strive to be thin. They are often seen browsing through fashion magazines and we almost see them drooling. In today's society, being thin is the "in" thing. Kate Moss is thin, Linsday Lohan is thin, why can't i be thin? The death of two young models have made the fashion world realize that models these days are looking more skeletal and need to project a healthy image of beauty to the world. Models have to go through a test to determine the BMI in order for them to participate in fashion shows.

This phenomena of being thin is common but extremely unhealthy. The fashion industry have become the scapegoat for the reason behind the increasing number of anorexia and bulimic cases. But is it true that the fashion industry is to be blamed 100%?

The media had its own influence as well. According to this article, girls of size 12 are to be called fat. I believed this is just plain stereotyping. Is size discriminating to girls who wear other sizes besides 0. “We’ve seen that in order to orchestra prose and graphic combinations that enable readers to meet their goals, document designers need information about the process of interpretation itself,- about reader’s knowledge – driven and text driven understanding of documents”, (Schriver 1997). In this case, many young teenage girls are exposed to many form of media such as television. cable television and print media such as magazines. If they from young are so exposed to the media who shows so much of stick thin models and no issue is being raised from it , they might all believe that is alright and healthy to be stick thin.

References:

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Ekunkunbor J 2006, Vanguard, viewed on the 27th October 2007,
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Yacoob T, 2007, Daily Mail, viewed on the 27th October 2007,
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Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Whiley Computer Pub, New York