The "So Called" Beauty Ideal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHh2cpLGzIA&feature=related

I know this video is a little lengthy but I promise it is worth watching. This youtube video shows the sad truth that the "so called" beauty ideal painted throughout the media affects our society. It amazes me to see how people can judge the beauty of a person through a false ideal that is unattainable. This youtube video shows the lengths that these aspiring models with go to in order to make the so called idea weight to pursue their dreams in modeling. It is a sad to see how two model scouts can judge women and men by their weight and heights and distinguish if they are worthy enough to be considered the beauty ideal. What is an either sadder fact is that the mothers of these girls play into it. Scroll to 4:05 in the video and listen to what the mother of the aspiring model has to say about her getting to her dream. Its a sad reality of what happens today in our society. And that a 24 inch waist is said to not make the cut in modeling. How can this not affect the psychological processes of women in a harmful and unhealthy way. How can the scout say what they try to promote is a healthy way of slimming down when the size that they want these models to be at is in fact not healthy? It is also sad to hear the models saying that they want to eat. Does not eating make a girl more beautiful? I hope this video creates both awarness and understanding that this falsified beauty ideal is not actually a beauty ideal and not a way of happiness. It is important to realize that every women and men are beautiful in their own way and it does not take unhealthy starvation to become beautiful!

By: Angela DiCampli