Close your eyes and imagine this: You are sitting at home and it is a Saturday night. You are watching TV and reading magazines. As you flip through the pages you look at the models in the photos and you realize how perfect they look. You are so envious of their hair, their smile, and their size. Children and teenagers want to look like the models they see in the magazines. Many girls want to be “perfect”, they want to look like the models in the magazine. Many girls feel like they can easily control their bodies, by controlling what they eat. While an eating disorder ultimately results in weight loss it is not the right way to go about losing weight. Anorexia and bulimia, in some cases, could be a result of our media. In other cases, eating disorders can develop when girls are bullied about their weight but I believe that no one is born with the intention of starving themselves.
What is anorexia and bulimia? The Merriam Webster dictionary definition of anorexia is, a serious physical and emotional illness in which fear of being fat leads to very poor eating habits and dangerous weight loss. The definition for bulimia in the Merriam Webster dictionary is a serious physical and emotional illness in which people and especially young woman eat large amounts of food and then cause themselves to vomit in order not to gain weight. The full names of these disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Bulimia and Anorexia are disorders that are not just about food and weight. Instead, it is more about people who begin to use food as a way of controlling and dealing with uncomfortable situations or painful emotions they may not know how to handle. It makes them feel like they have control of their feelings and their situations that are overwhelming them.
My premise is that some eating disorders are generated because of our media. Since Photoshop was invented, many magazine editors use this to make models look virtually perfe...