Are you affected by the way you view youself in comparison to uber skinny models?? I think nowadays its easy for people to feel fat easily, and I admit having wondered about my weight even though I know I'm the weight I should be!
I don't think people should be affected by models but I think many people are because you see images of models everywhere and I think it's hard not to be affected considering there is so much pressure for models to be unhealthily thin.
2007-02-16 23:09:22 · 16 answers · asked by Seriously Though 4 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Well yeah, I think that everyone is affected somehow-even if they say there not they must be in some way because it's difficult not to be as they are everywhere-I mean I know I'm a healthy weight-maybe slightly and many people think I'm skinny but I sometimes find myself thinking 'I could be skinnier' but that's when it gets dangerous.
2007-02-16 23:20:24 · answer #1 · answered by always-live-life-to-the-fullest 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No but then again Im not a women so I don't think female models will really change my views about my appearence, If people aren't models why would pressure on models to be thin affect them, i think some people want to be models and feel that being skinny will help them live out their dream in proxy much like how people will buy the latest styles celebs are wearing so they can feel like they actually are a celeb much like football fans with there football shirts.
2007-02-17 06:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by nurgle69 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am affected by them. Just do not like them. They look like a bonnie bag of skin!!!
Madrid´s famous Cybele's fashion show has determine a minimum body mass for the models to be able to work there. If they are below that body mass they are of the show!
The limit is what is consider healthy body mass according to their age and height. Still skinny girls, but like look more attractive, healthier, and just better.
Also in Spain they are standardising the size labels. To do it, they are measuring thousands of women between 15 and 75 to get actual sizes of normal women and then set the size standard for clothing!! So, size will follow societies real sizes, all makers will have the same size labels for their sizes, and a size 40 will be view as a very normal size.
Sound example to follow everywhere, I suppose.
2007-02-16 23:29:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I am not. I kind of like to look at them, the impossible long legs and arms. They don't make me feel bad at all because I'd never think of comparing myself to them.
I think the media is sending out mixed messages, Models are killing our self-esteem, We are a nation with too many fat people, Fat is bad, Fat is unhealthy, Fat is costing our health care system, and Those thin models should not making us feel bad by being thin.... I think people should just think for themselves, If a person is overweight, stop looking at the models and start looking at him/herself and do something to improve health. I know this sounds like my old mother: Health is everything and beauty comes within.
2007-02-17 02:09:02 · answer #4 · answered by pathanChe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not affected by the models themselves, but I'm affected by they way some people relate to them, for example girls who aspire to be like them who think they are fat, when they are fine or men that believe they are 'ideal' and that a 22-24 inch waist is perfect. This wharps everyone's views of what is healthy and messes with their heads, until it drives some of us to eating disorders.
HTH : )
2007-02-17 11:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell yes!
20 years ago the 'perfect' size for a model was a UK 10. Now it's a US zero.
20 years ago the 'perfect size' for a UK woman was a 12, now anything over a UK 8 is a heffer. And the size 8 still has to have DD bra size.
It's nuts.
2007-02-18 04:31:36 · answer #6 · answered by salvationcity 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think as you get older you care less about what people think about you. I'm 33 and have no desire to be skinny and i couldn't give a **** what people think about how i look. I think there is so much pressure from the media to be the 'ideal' weight. Whose ideal? Who makes up this poppycock anyway? As long as you are healthy and live your life as well as you can it really doesn't matter.
2007-02-16 23:23:07 · answer #7 · answered by pigletsam 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only affect they have on me is that I feel for them. They've chosen a profession that practically demands you become ill with malnutrition in order to be successful and popular in their chosen field. I don't think these are women we should allow our children to look up to at all as role models, it's just not healthy.
2007-02-16 23:14:56 · answer #8 · answered by Laurie K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im 20 years old and a size 16. i used to be perfect 10 before i had my 2 children. i feel under alot of pressure because of my age to. but me having the kids has fucked up my metabablism. my man has cheated on me in the past and in my eyes i think its because im fat. i hate it when he looks at women on the tele because i feel so ****. i had bulimia and i still find myself throwing up if we have a row. there is alot of pressure to be slim these days. maybe we will all grow skinny in a happy world, but would it be a happy world then????
2007-02-17 00:19:43 · answer #9 · answered by lipz20 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No,im a fit and healthy size 10-12 uk .I feel no pressure at all.I find it sad that some people dont have their own mind,why would they want to look like other people? I refuse to look like an ill stick insect.
2007-02-16 23:13:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋