October 13, 2011
In the name of a flawless face and a perfectly packaged product, Photoshop comes to the rescue. But in the process the picture is altered and unrecognizable from the original. In one (now famous) ad, Julia Roberts no longer looks like the woman we know and love despite the age lines that now appear on ...
Tags: ads,
advertisements,
Advertising Standards Authority,
alteration,
anorexia,
ASA,
beauty,
body dismorphic disorder,
Christy Turlington,
Dove Self-Esteem Fund,
eating disorders,
enhancement,
insecure,
Jo Swinson,
Julia Roberts,
magazines,
media,
photoshop,
retouched,
self-esteem,
Twiggy,
unrealistic images
September 23, 2011
Come on everyone! Let’s have a giggle about anorexia! Clearly all of the girls that die every year deserve to be mocked in a costume that pokes fun at their disease. Well, obviously not. But, this is apparently what the creator of “Anna Rexia,” the Halloween costume that is skin tight and features a painted ...
September 16, 2011
As fashion week is upon us, it is easy to revel in the beauty of the fabrics, shoes, and hair pieces. But with fashion week also comes the fun of watching the impossibly thin models strutting down the runway. It all seems so desirable when looking in from the outside. But as new reports reveal, ...
Tags: anorexia,
BMI,
body image,
cost of modeling,
eating disorders,
fashion industry,
Fashion Week,
fashion world,
modelling,
models,
price of modeling
August 4, 2011
Anorexics and bulimics are getting younger. Preteens? 8 year olds? 5 year olds? Sadly, yes, to all of the above. Hospitals in the UK have pooled their information from the past couple of years to determine the amount of eating disorder patients they had seen as a whole. Almost 600 cases found the patient under ...
July 8, 2011
Could we be nearing the end of the era of deformed models and digitally skinny celebrities? Hopefully so. Like smoking, the American Medical Association has declared it bad for your health. AMA voted to adopt a policy to “encourage advertising associations to work with public and private sector organizations” to discourage airbrushing or retouching in ...
Tags: advertisements,
American Medical Association,
anorexia,
Barbara McAneney,
body image,
bulimia,
fashion industry,
health,
magazines,
media,
photoshop,
self-esteem,
unattainable body representations,
weight issues
July 5, 2011
Usually a good night out involves talking, laughing, and let’s not forget eating. So as to not spoil a good night, you stuff your face and then when you get home you face the guilt. Unfortunately, a great number of women are pigging out in public and starving in private. Just like anorexics and momorexics, ...
June 17, 2011
Pregnancy is a time where women should be able to pig out without the guilt. It’s dinner for two every night! But a dangerous new trend reflects that the pressure to be thin is affecting moms. Celebrities like Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe and reality star Bethenny Frankel are starving themselves during and post-pregnancy in an ...
Tags: anorexia,
boot camp,
eating disorders,
exercise,
maternity,
maternity stores,
momorexia,
motherhood,
motherhood trends,
postpartum,
pressure to be thin,
starvation,
weight,
weight loss
June 15, 2011
Bending over into toilets, bushes, showers or garbage cans, hiding and binging on laxatives, running on treadmills until all calories are burned off, or straight up starving until the pounds disappear, women have been affected by eating disorders for as far back as most could remember. Many have the ability to quell the normal desire ...
April 22, 2011
Women have been trying to bring Barbie to life for many years. They look at her big boobs, small waist and long blond hair and think that maybe they could look like that too. Whether they have to starve themselves or become workout addicts, the price tag is irrelevant. Galia Slayen has given a strong ...
Tags: anorexia,
Barbie,
body image,
bulimia,
eating disorders,
fat,
food,
Galia Slayen,
life size Barbie,
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week,
self-esteem,
skinny,
thin girls
April 15, 2011
Millions of women worldwide of different faiths battle with eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, but it’s a problem that’s increasingly prevalent in Orthodox Jewish communities. In fact, it’s become so noticeable that Rabbis are making it their responsibility as spiritual leaders to speak out. Having developed into a life or death situation, a call ...