'Super Skinny Me'

I recently watched a documentary called 'Super Skinny Me'. Its about two journalists who try to lose as much weight as they can in 5 weeks in a race to become a size double 0. The reasons for this is to show how weight loss is the main female obsession. On average women who diet, spend 31 years of their life on a diet. Women go through extreme lengths to achieve this super skinny look that most celebrities in Hollywood seem to attain. According to a recent survey this look is deemed attractive by 6 out of 10 women in Britain and they see this as the ideal weight/look. Almost every magazine in the world has printed something to do with dieting. For example 'lose 1 stone a week on the Grapefruit diet' etc. Most women would not be able to achieve this look. This upsets a lot of women. Women are losing their confidence looking at over-edited images of celebrities wishing they could look the same, when the celebrities themselves don't even look like that! These images are distorting women's views on their own body image. This documentary shows that by trying to lose weight fast in order to obtain the 'perfect body' that these magazines are showing constantly, you can do your body a lot of harm, you will become miserable, it is just not possible to do without constantly thinking about food and exercise. One of these women had to pull out of this race to size double 0 near the end because she ends up very on edge and so close to an eating disorder in order to be like this skinny models and celebrities. She became that obsessed by losing weight that she started to do whatever she could to lose it. She started to lose control and binge eating and then was taking laxatives. These are some of the effects the media is having on women.

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