The main stream of beauty is skinny and which affected many young girls’ self images. The cause of anorexia nervosa seems rooted on how we feel about and see ourselves or “self-image". Even though anorexia teenagers have a beautiful body in normal peoples’ eyes, but in anorexia sufferers’ eye or brain that they feel fat, or imperfect or other negative body images. Therefore, I think in order to change those young ladies’ mind we need to put a effect to change the multimedia images of beauty from extreme skinny style to images of healthy body.Thursday, March 25, 2010
A Healthy Image
The main stream of beauty is skinny and which affected many young girls’ self images. The cause of anorexia nervosa seems rooted on how we feel about and see ourselves or “self-image". Even though anorexia teenagers have a beautiful body in normal peoples’ eyes, but in anorexia sufferers’ eye or brain that they feel fat, or imperfect or other negative body images. Therefore, I think in order to change those young ladies’ mind we need to put a effect to change the multimedia images of beauty from extreme skinny style to images of healthy body.
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This is such a classic picture of the mental battle our youth face with image. It reminded me of a peice a saw a few weeks ago about Jessica Simpson's new show on VH1 "The price of beauty" which looks at the "standards" of beauty in different cultures and what we put ourselves thru to reach it. I'm hoping it helps, as it is intended to, youth struggling with self image but it also has the potential to go the other way. Check it out: http://tvwatch.people.com/2010/03/16/jessica-simpson-gags-and-giggles-on-the-price-of-beauty-premiere/
ReplyDeleteJennifer, did you know that some people develop eating disorders for reasons that have nothing to do with body image? Eating disorders have a lot of cons associated with them, but one of the reasons they persist and develop in the first place is because they help people regulate their emotions, including anxiety and depression. The behaviors of eating disorders help individuals feel better, at least initially.
ReplyDeleteFor me, body image was never an issue until AFTER I was weight-recovered from anorexia. And for others, body image may never be an issue associated with their eating disorder. There are eating disorders that develop in part due to negative body image, however not all cases are correspond to that model.
I think media images actually have more of an impact on individuals trying to stay in recovery from their eating disorder than the images have on contributing to the development of an eating disorder.