I'm so upset lately about the increasing trend of unhealthy women in Hollywood. These are the women who grace the cover of every magazine and that we see in popular films. They are the women who young girls want to emulate, and who set the standard of beauty for a generation. These women actively recruit the role of role-models by putting themselves in the limelight and promoting their movies, books, and albums.
While browsing celebrity photographs recently, I have seen pictures of women and girls who used to be healthy and gorgeous...but now look like skeletons. To name a few: Lara Flynn Boyle, Ashley Simpson, Kate Bosworth, Nicole Ritchie.
I realize that being overweight is unhealthy. But so is starving yourself. I also know the women in Hollywood are under enormous pressure to look perfect. But who has defined "perfect"? Was it us, the general public? Do we want to see the women looking like this?
What do you think?
2006-07-22
13:22:38
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kogirl
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