Every time I pass a newsstand, the bold yellow font of tabloid and lifestyle magazines scream out at me: “Look Who’s Lost It!” “They Were Fabby and Now They’re Flabby!” “They Were Flabby and Now They’re Flat!” We’re all aware of the sagas these glossies create: “Look Who’s Still A Sea Cow After Giving Birth to Twins!” Or the equally perverse: “Slammin’ Post Baby Beach Bodies Just Four Days After Crowning!”
According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), as many as 10 million females and 1 million males living in the US are fighting a life and death battle with anorexia or bulimia. I’m someone who has always publicly advocated for a healthy body image and the idea that the media would maintain that I have lost an impossible amount of weight by some sort of “crash diet” or miracle workout is ludicrous. I believe it’s reckless and dangerous for these publications to sell the story that these are acceptable ways to looking like a “movie star.”
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| — | Scarlett Johansson on weight issues and pressure from the media [x] (via fuckyeahgirlcrush) |
I really wish people would realise you can’t “look anorexic”, it’s a mental disorder, you can’t look like a mental disorder. When people say that shit it just creates this standard that everyone with an eating disorder feels like they have to meet to be deemed “sick enough”. I don’t look anorexic, I look like a whale, but I am definitely not healthy. I really just wish people would stop using that term.
