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In Reply to: beauty posted by Alissa, Julie, and Hillary on February 02, 1999 at 13:13:19:

I think you guys are completely right. I think society is sending a completely wrong image out to young women about being thin. I just laugh at the commercial on t.v. that has a picture from the Renaissance with three somewhat round ladies in it and the ladies all get sucked up and enhanced through computer imaging and the commercial says our clinic can do this for you and they are advertising cosmetic surgery. I think it is sad that they say that the beautiful women in that painting were out of the norm. My friend is a model and is 1999's new covergirl. She has done modeling all over the world including New York and Paris. She has told me horror stories of how people starve themsleves to model. She says that the agents are the worst too and they make the girls feel quilty for eating even carrots the day before the shoot. Luckily for her she is one of those naturally skinny people that can eat all dya long and not gain a pound. She is a size 2 and just looks sickly thin I think. The sad thing is in all the magazines like Cosmo and stuff she has been in through computer enhancement she looks completely normal. She looks like she could be wearnign an average size. I think women should fight back against society and tell them that we don't want to see models starving themselves anymore and that Kate Winslett is in. If not young women are going to keep getting stuck in the trap of eating disorders or have terrible self images. If looking good requires starving myself and depriving myself of the stuff I love I rather be so called fat by society.
*Mary

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: I think you guys are completely right. I think society is sending a completely wrong image out to young women about being thin. I just laugh at the commercial on t.v. that has a picture from the Renaissance with three somewhat round ladies in it and the ladies all get sucked up and enhanced through computer imaging and the commercial says our clinic can do this for you and they are advertising cosmetic surgery. I think it is sad that they say that the beautiful women in that painting were out of the norm. My friend is a model and is 1999's new covergirl. She has done modeling all over the world including New York and Paris. She has told me horror stories of how people starve themsleves to model. She says that the agents are the worst too and they make the girls feel quilty for eating even carrots the day before the shoot. Luckily for her she is one of those naturally skinny people that can eat all dya long and not gain a pound. She is a size 2 and just looks sickly thin I think. The sad thing is in all the magazines like Cosmo and stuff she has been in through computer enhancement she looks completely normal. She looks like she could be wearnign an average size. I think women should fight back against society and tell them that we don't want to see models starving themselves anymore and that Kate Winslett is in. If not young women are going to keep getting stuck in the trap of eating disorders or have terrible self images. If looking good requires starving myself and depriving myself of the stuff I love I rather be so called fat by society. : *Mary

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