Todays society heavily depends on image and acceptability in order for one to progress in life with a feeling of being wanted rather than rejected.
Since the portrayal of being thin was heavily broadened through the use of the media, most of society grew to accept that the people they saw where concidered 'normal' or 'desired'.
This brought pressure on young women the most, even men where hit hard by the constant demands to be accepted in society through the media's images.
Unfortunatly, some women (and men) somehow forget what an acceptable weight really is.
A woman about my age (17) should be around 10 stone at LEAST, but the images displayed on magazine covers and on the TV influence the women that they must get thinner or they will not be socially accepted or a potential partner may not desire them due to their appearance.
Anorexia is the result of what drives women to get as thin as possible, unfortunatly you get some people who even take the influence of the media even further and drag it onto the internet....pro-anorexia websites are one of the many bad influences that effect young peoples portrayal of what is socially an acceptable weight.
In my opinion, I personally think that all these people who ARE UNDER THEIR NATURALLY EXPECTED WEIGHT are a very bad influence of young people nowerdays.....the media should be banned from putting these 'acceptable' women on, it doesn't make women feel any better about themselves, it's the same for these 'beefy' men....they have the same negative effect on young men.
Once again, modelling is a waste of time and money...and is also a bad influence on youngsters portrayal of physical acceptability and should be banned.
