This season curves are all the rage,so ladies, shed those skinny svelte bodies you worked so hard for and opt for a more voluptuous-hour glass shape.

For years we women have been bombarded with images of impossibly thin models, every month week and even more regularly, envious of the images of perfection.

And now, turning the tables on the stick thin creatures it created and once hailed, the media has set its sites on the more curvaceous model, knocking twiggy off her pedestal.

Not forgetting about those with eating disorders, the media has something extra just for you, just log on to the web to find endless "Thinspiration". There are an infinite list of sites that will help you in your battle of starving yourself to death.

We live in a weight obsessed world where the media portray the message that happiness comes part and parcel with a the perfect body.

Magazines are filled cover to cover with leafy diets that will change your life. Rhetorical questions and snappy slogans : well if this celebrity can drop 2 dress sizes why cant you? Thus setting impossible standards for the average working woman. An international survey carried out stated that magazines have an immediate negative impact on women's self esteem. The experimental group showed signs of depression and hostility after viewing 20 pictures of the ideal women.
I don't know about you, but that disturbs me greatly, after only 20 pictures, imagine the effect it must be having on a daily basis.

I'm sure like a lot of people I often thought how great it must be to be a celebrity. Having your face splashed across the world and everyone knowing your name. What happened to the day when it was rude to ask a lady about her weight. Celebrity women it is true signed up for a public life, but leaving behind the fact that some of these actresses, pop-stars etc, are just teens, these women are being mentally damages beyond repair by the harsh criticism that they get from the worlds media regarding their weight. What give the4 media the right to condemn these women on a life of dieting and exercise.

How many average women appear on these magazines, would we be as interested if they were more. Would Miss average be good enough to satisfy th4e media's hunger for perfection. These are questions that may never be answered, because we gave come too far down this increasingly waif road.

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