An eating disorder is an extreme dissatisfaction of one’s body that has negative physical and mental effect. Someone with an eating disorder may restrict their eating or use ways to get rid of food from their body before it’s observed. The pressure, stress and depression lead to eating disorders. Our society revolves around having an ideal body. Advertisers thrive on a woman’s beauty, thinness and sexiness, which affect the minds of the consumers. Everyone wants to look like a celebrity so girls and boys will go to the extreme to reach their desired body. You can’t even watch TV for 30 minutes with out seeing a commercial promoting beauty, dieting, or fashion.
Body image starts when you’re a child. Girls want to look like Barbie and guys want to look like NFL football players. Kids usually will get picked on at school if they are chubby and even get harassed at home for eating junk food. The encounters we have as a child affect our ways as an adolescent. In high school, everyone wants to be liked and wanted so changing you appearance and lifestyles is not uncommon. Eating Disorders is a route some take to get the thinness everyone desires. College campus continues the standards that you must have beauty and lean to be wanted. We are constantly surrounded by what society’s dictates as perfection. The fashion industry practice of hiring extremely thin models and producing small sizes for certain clothes raises the need to be skinny.
As we saw in the movie, eating disorders were harming the bodies and minds of young women were they had to be admitted into an intake clinic for treatment. The girls were had symptoms of depression and had extremely standards for their thinness. Most of them just wanted to be accepted into society. One girl passed away in her early thirties because of her rigorous habits.
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