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Even before they start school, many young girls worry that they are fat. But a new study suggests that watching a movie starring a stereotypically thin and beautiful princess may not increase children’s anxieties.
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Most normal-weight women—almost 90 percent in a 2007 Cornell study of 310 college students—want to be thinner, and half of underweight women want to lose even more weight. Meanwhile, most overweight women don’t want to be thin enough to achieve a healthy weight.
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When entering an exhibit about eating disorders in the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union, visitors will be taken through the four stages of eating disorders: images, distortion, despair, and hope.
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With the advent of cell phones that do much more than make and receive calls, applications on smart phones and iPhones that allow users to monitor their caloric intake and body weight could fuel or trigger eating disorders, writes Julie Deardorff of the Chicago Tribune.
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When nearly 85 percent of American women are dissatisfied with their appearance and half of all fourth grade girls are on a diet, it’s no wonder “fat talk” permeates American society.
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The already unrealistically thin Barbie doll is becoming even thinner, as designer Christian Louboutin thinks the doll’s ankles are “too fat” and is redesigning a newer, thinner version due out in the US in May. Examiner.com writer Cindy Adams notes that this move may fuel the already rising incidence of eating disorders among women in the U.S. who strive to obtain impossibly thin figures.
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Former Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton says she was fired for being “too fat.” The company recently received criticism for altering an image of the 5-foot-10, 120-pound model to look emaciated, with her head too big for her body.
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