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  • Essay / Responsibility of the Modeling Industry - 1518

    A tall and glamorous model is every girl's dream. Long, beautiful legs, a slim body and beautiful, shiny hair are what an average young woman considers the ideal image for a woman. If you don't look like the pictures of those stunning Victoria Secret models and Fashion Week models, you're suddenly ashamed of your own body. It's a great life to live with a high salary, fame, drinking champagne on a yacht with famous celebrities and even being on the cover of Vogue. The modeling industry has been the most influential source in the lives of our young women. We see young girls and young women eating as little as possible, even sometimes starving to look like these models. What they don't realize is that they contribute to the 2.7% of young people aged 13 to 18 suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Susan Albers, a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said exposure to thin models is a great trigger for maintaining an eating disorder. While watching America's Next Top Model or flipping through a fashion magazine, these young women don't realize that these models are either naturally thin or that they themselves suffer from an eating disorder, in other words , hostages from dark hell are hiding behind these podiums. curtains. The growing number of young anorexic and bulimic patients and the number of websites such as Thinspiration, where girls post photos of their slim bodies, clearly suggest that the modeling industry has no responsibility in providing healthy physical models. and realistic. for young women. According to one study, 95% of people suffering from these eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25, the main audience for television modeling shows...... middle of paper ... .the body. Another big improvement can be seen if the model's age increases to 18 and above. This would help to get the number of very young adolescents as young as 15 or 16 years old to stop overeating to lose weight. Girls as young as 12 start getting ideas for losing weight by seeing pictures in magazines. If there is a greater age gap between these girls and the models, it is less likely that these girls will attempt to look like the models. Thinspiration is a virus-like source that has a huge impact on women. Getting rid of these pro-ana websites will surely reduce the number of girls suffering from eating disorders. When women see other women like them posting their photos of perfect bodies, they feel ashamed of their own bodies and force themselves to lose a lot of weight. With these changes, the rate of patients suffering from eating disorders would certainly decrease within a few years..