Size zeros are no hero's....But then again nor is the British media!

The thing that frightens me most about the British media today is that the press and their entire entourage are so lost in their own fantasy worlds full of both lies and deceit, that they fail to recognise that they are in fact hypocrites.
With women’s magazines and tabloid newspapers constantly bombarding their readership with “What’s Hot and what’s not!” I think its only nature that the women of today are confused with how they think they should look and what’s right to eat.

The media today are currently showing their awareness on size zero models and how important it is for them to be banned from catwalks and other modelling activities due to the influence that their petit or shall I say under under-nourished bodies could have on women of today’s society. However excuse me if I’m wrong but is it not the media that subsequently first planted this idea of what our body ‘should look like’, in the first place? I think it’s fear to say that had it not been for the media’s portrayal of slim being best (or them knowing best), the women of today would be able to acknowledge for themselves that these size zero models are not what women should look like or consider aspiring to.

While the media viciously attack these size zero models and show their everlasting support for the London’s fashion week, which has banned all their size zero models from appearing on the catwalk, they are still needless to say publishing articles on ‘what’s the best diet this month’, ‘which celeb has the best work out video’ oh and less not forget our all time favourite, ‘how to drop two dress sizes in 4 weeks’. Now someone tell me that this is not a hypocrite in the makings. How can the media in one breath be encouraging people not to follow these size zero models but to instead be happy if not content about your figure and your weight, whilst in another breath telling you that loosing two dress sizes is an achievement which will make you feel better about yourself and make you stand out from the rest. I mean its no surprise that some women get stuck in between those fine lines of what’s right and what’s wrong when it comes to how they look.

If 37% of women are dieting most of the time whilst another 18% are skipping meals to keep their weight down can someone please explain to me when exactly they’ll have the time to realise that they will probably never obtain the perfect size body because THERE ISN’T ONE… But of course these women’s magazines are not going to tell us women that now are they, because that would be completely demolishing the unique selling point of their magazines. It just saddens me to realise that we women don’t recognise that.

But any women reading this don’t be fazed or feel stupid because it happens to the best (and worst) of us, we are so quick to be led by the British media on how to look that we barely get used to being comfortable in our own skin before we go changing into the next. So while the British media continue bantering on about how naïve these size zero models are and questioning what possessed them to look as they do or think that what they look like is right or sexy. Maybe they should consider the fact that it is the media that implants this ideology of what looks good, and that maybe these innocent young women that started off just like you and I with an aim to look a little slimmer got too carried away with these "Fantastic" diets praised by the media. All to fulfill what they were made to beleive was 'the right figure' or 'models expectation.'
“But who are they to decide” I hear you ask, “they are just normal people like you and I, who gives them the right to decide? “ That’s the funny thing… because WE DO! But why? I'll never know!

If the media really want to fulfill their roles of being the news providers and helping our country and it's citizens strive for the best, than maybe they should think about including what starving yourself silly and constanly subjecting yourself to diets is really capable of doing to our bodies, instead of promoting these outragous ideas about changing them.