Sunday, February 10, 2013

Body Image: Bigger Can Be Beautiful


These days women are getting thinner and thinner, trying to lose weight verging on psychotic. The thinner, the more beautiful they are. I am also one of those who try to be “beautiful” by losing weight. The difference is that I don’t want to be thin at the expense of my health. I won’t be fat, while I won’t be sick instead of my outer beauty. “Thinner is beautiful” is western culture, and the media is the one which spreads the culture. We often see really skinny female actors and fashion models on TV, and think them beautiful. Yes, actually they look beautiful, but they might not be beautiful considering their health condition.

Reading the article, I was surprised even the models who kept really skinny shape feels that they should be healthier rather than they try to be “ultra-thin”. There is no way if you die after continuing hard dieting. We don’t need to be like super models or sexy movie actors, no matter how they look beautiful. Maybe they are naturally skinny or genetically to be skinny, and if so we cannot be like them forever. So it is better to quit dieting and start healthier life.

The clue is how we can change the way we look at the “beautiful” women. We might need to look them differently from the way the media editors want us to do. As the statistic says, more than 50% of women in the United States are not confident with their weight and/or their looks. If they are really fat, they should try to lose weight, not for being beautiful, but for be healthy. On the other hand, if they are too skinny like the super models on the TV shows, you think twice and find the better way to be beautiful women.
 
 

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