body image for women Community Group
This group is for women of all ages who benefit from support from other women to promote positive thinking about body image and who deal with the depression and anxiety associated with having a negative body image. Those who struggle with body image can benefit greatly through being reminded that we live in a patriarchal society filled with sexism, warped values and...
So I'm doing this course on fashion design, so there are many fashion magazines around. Full with very skinny women! And it really makes me feel like I'm fat. Even though I'm size 8-10 ( about size 4-6 in the USA.) And also many people at my course talk about dieting when they're only a size 6 or 8, ( size 2-4 USA)and it just makes me feel so horrible about my body! I really hate it!
I hate that the world makes me feel this way because of their "idealized images of women" I just wish to feel like its okay to be the size that I am, and that I don't have to be a size 0-2 to be loved by people.
Anyhow, I wish they would show more curvier women in the fashion world, teenage girls need to have more healthier role modles to look up to, than some ladies who are so thin that they fit the clothes of a twelve year old.
What do you guys think?
I hate that the world makes me feel this way because of their "idealized images of women" I just wish to feel like its okay to be the size that I am, and that I don't have to be a size 0-2 to be loved by people.
Anyhow, I wish they would show more curvier women in the fashion world, teenage girls need to have more healthier role modles to look up to, than some ladies who are so thin that they fit the clothes of a twelve year old.
What do you guys think?
I see those mags and I hate them, in fact I've stopped buying them completely and I try to ignore them in the grocery store when I do see them. It is sick how they portray the female form. There is a huge thing happening right now in Hollywood too about 2 girls on a new show and how skinny they are. This is the message we are giving our young girls. I've seen some as young as 10 saying to their girlfriends about how fat they are and how they have to get some more diet pills/diet food... it makes me so angry.
I think the first thing we need to do is find that happy spot in each one of us... be happy with who we are and what we look like and tell the world to be damned about the rest! If we stop buy mags based on what the women look like then the publishers would get the idea and quickly! If we all stood up and said enough is enough! They would lose so much money it wouldn't be funny!
But who am I? I'm just an overweight nobody... The masses have to stand up and say NO... and if they don't... we will keep seeing the images that are so self destructive out there and they will keep coming until WE say ENOUGH!