Should the entertainment industry be held financially liable for people with eating disorders?

Yes

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by Frances Ruocco

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Yes, because they are one of the leading causes of brainwashing individuals into believing that unless we are built like Twiggy we are not attractive or good human beings.

Although they sometimes portray heavy people in the movies as being heroes, they usually portray us as being sloppy and only good for laughs and ridicule.

Many large production companies constantly tell their movie stars that they can't gain ten pounds and place them on diets because they tell them they won't look good on camera or television.

Many have been using these tactics for generations. Famous people like Judy Garland, Karen Carpenter, Oprah, Valerie Bertanelli, Marie Osmond and many others stars are always made to feel insecure and ugly and regardless of how beautiful, wealthy and/or popular they are.

The above are just a few of the most beautiful and talented women who have ever lived and all we ever hear about them is what diet they are on, how much weight they have gained, how much weight they have lost.

Judy Garland and Karen Carpenter were blessed with outstanding singing voices and were constantly made to feel insecure and in the end those feelings resulted in their deaths. How many other famous people were also destroyed because of the standards that Hollywood sets? How many went into seclusion because they did not want to be seen two or three sizes then they were when they were young?

Many will tell these starlets that if they want to keep their careers they must lose the weight, no matter how they do it or they are out the door. Exercise, diet pills, starvation diets.

In spite of their performing one good work after another they are still made to feel insecure.

Of course many people who are not famous are also made to feel insecure because of how people who are not skin and bones are portrayed on the movie screens. Thus, without our realizing it we are being brainwashed into believing that we are worthless unless we look like Twiggy.

No one is going to want to date us, love us, and marry us. We are subjected to one talk show after another; all making idols of slim people while trying to make over heavy people believe that if we lose the weight we will become gorgeous.

In many instances we may only be twenty pounds overweight, but we become so obsessed with the extra pounds that we either start to gain weight because we start skipping meals and our body starts to think we are starving it and we gain more and more weight. Or else we become so stressed out we automatically start gaining weight. Before long many of us are starting to become Anorexics.

How many lives will be destroyed before we realize that some people may never be thin?

How many lives will be destroyed before we realize that not only fat people die at a young age and/or not only thin people live to be old?

How many lives must be destroyed before we realize that fat people are as beautiful if not more so than thin people, and beauty is not what size a person is, but whether or not we are good people.

Has anyone ever taken surveys to see how many people throughout history have been destroyed because such tactics as constantly aired on television, talked and written about?

Insurance companies also bear some of the responsibility because of the weight tables they set. However, they will never accept that responsibility, but, they will refuse to pay the cost of treatment at hospitals and/or clinics where the patients can be treated, even if it is a matter of life and death.

Yes, I think it is about time that those in the entertainment business start to realize the role they play in society and how much they affect the lives of people.

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