FREE ESSAY ON ANOREXIA

ANOREXIA

Anorexia 
The ads in all magazines promote one thing; skinny is the only way to be. From youth girl
magazines to magazines inferred for adults, all women in ads are skinny, and this
represents that you have to be skinny to be pretty, or get the man, or even to get the
job.
When I looked over the ads closely it really surprised me. I never consciously realized
how much the ads were promoting you have to be skinny and have no hips to achieve the
certain things they are promoting. It makes me sick, that all these ads have so much
power and affect. The ads make you feel that if you don't look like the skinny girls in
the ad, you just aren't good enough. 
Magazine ads also bring in sex appeal with being skinny. They basically say that if you
aren't skinny, you won't be sexy, and you won't get a man. They try to fool you into
thinking that if you buy their product you'll become like that girl, you'll be sexy, and
skinny. Ads also show businesswomen as skinny and sexy. That makes a person reading that
think that they have to be skinny in order to be successful.
I think it's fair to say that most teenage girls think they have to be skinny to be
beautiful. I know how that feels. All through out high school I had a bad eating problem.
I wasn't over weight at all, but I thought I was because I didn't look exactly like one
of those girls in the magazine ads. I had three-month periods. For three months I would
eat 200-300 calories a day, and run over 3 miles, plus more exercise. Usually then I
would lose 25 to 30 pounds, and I thought I was happy, but really I was depressed. Then I
would get in a three month phase where I wouldn't care anymore, and eat everything in my
site, and gain back all the weight plus more. 
My mom tried to get my help with a psychiatrist, but nothing seemed to work. To this day
nothing has worked its kind of a day to day trial. But now I have learned to except
myself more. I see all these ads and it makes me sad, knowing so many girls are going
through what I have. These ads promote the only way to achieve complete happiness, and be
beautiful, is to be skinny, even if you have to starve yourself.