Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Real World Through the Glassy Pages

A thought for the day, people in magazines... they technically are real people, but how many people in the world actually look like THAT in the REAL world? Putting pressure on teens from the glossy covers of magazines to look like this...
http://www.ronitbaras.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/anorexia67aa.jpg
Or this.......


























It's just like stepping on a bug. Eventually they squish from the pressure, and then things get messy..

http://beautifullifeproject.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/anorexia.jpg
It can turn into anorexia. (Kim*, 17)
http://bigrab.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/la_bulimia_1.jpg
Or bulimia. (Nicole*, 16)

So next time you look at that magazine, please do remember, these people aren't real....
(* means that name was changed for privacy matters)

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