The fifties had Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Munroe.
The sixties had Raquel Welch, Joan Simms and Bridget Bardot.
The seventies had Bianca Jagger and Farrah Fawcett.
The eighties had Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell.
The nineties had Gisele Bundchen and Pamela Anderson.
And what do the noughties get?
Well, we have Lindsey Lohan, Cheryl Cole, Victoria Beckham, Nicole Richie, Renee Zellweger and Keira Knightley.
When did the image of beauty turn into a weight loss competition?
When did it become attractive to have your bones on show?
Give them their due, today’s celebrities are under much more pressure to look good and if they’re seen with even a hint of cellulite its splashed across pages of magazines with magnified pictures just in case you missed it the first time. And yet throughout the rest of the magazine you have pages upon pages of articles telling you to love yourself (with the odd diet plan chucked in for good measure).
Why is it so wrong to be the size you are and not have to diet and starve to fit in with the image created in this media mockery?
Why are we under pressure to fit in with an impossible image to avoid being called overweight?
Now please, I don’t want anybody to mistake what I’m saying as acceptance of obesity or living an unhealthy lifestyle, but what I am saying is the obsession with weight on the catwalks and in the media has gone on for far too long.
The diets that these women go on to look like the living dead are beyond consideration for anyone who values their health. All these size 0 models are doing is encouraging our younger generation to develop some sort of eating disorder.
Let’s stop the madness and just be a decent, healthy size!
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