Woww.. I typed that way wrong. Sorry. :\ You get the point.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm skinny and have big boobs. But I actually wish they were a little smaller.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wouldn't call it unrealistic, because one can have theese, but the fact that most models and celebrities (or so I assume) have theese will probably cause some people to feel bad about themselves, or at least inferior

by Anonymous 12 years ago

forget that first part, I missed that "almost"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why would you even need to say that this was for school in the post?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People would've not voted on it as much if it didn't say that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I disagree, it definitely didn't sway me to vote on it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's for an argumentive essay I have to write. I needed to do a survey. Thank you. : )

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When has the media ever depicted anything truthfully?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You can't handle the truth!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Eh, I disagree with this post. Yes, some people might feel bad because many famous people are tall and skinny, but there are plenty of famous people who aren't, who might have a fuller figure or be a bit shorter. Also, you see people who are tall and skinny or whatever in real life, when you're in the supermarket or out shopping. And anyways, I don't really see how it's the public's right to tell someone they make people feel bad about themselves or whatever. Because it's their body and they were born with it, why make them feel guilty for it?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I really hate when people say this. I think you'd have to be pretty stupid if you looked at a celebrity on the red carpet and thought "wow I love her hair why don't I have hair like that". They spend hours on their hair getting it perfect. The same concept applies to pretty much everything about them. Women don't compare themselves to celebrities, they compare themselves to each other. If they compare themselves to each other then their comparing themselves to something more obtainable as their friends also don't have personal stylists/make up artists/hair stylists. Some people are naturally beautiful and have the characteristics you've described. Models are paid to be beautiful. That's their job. Just as you'd have to go to university and study communications and then gain experience to work as a journalist, as that's part of the job, they have to rely on their looks and beauty to get that job. Celebrities are always under scrutiny by the world. They have to look perfect otherwise they will get a bunch of hate. The average person is not under that kind of pressure.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I kinda feel like I'm alone here, but I feel an incredible amount of pressure to look like a celebrity. Maybe that's just cause I got bullied relentlessly too, but in any case someone is almost always telling me I'm not good enough unless I look like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not only celebrities, too. I remember trying to look like a Disney Princess for years.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, I don't usually see a lot of skinny models with big breasts unless they are on the cover of playboy or sports illustrated. They are usually very skinny with small breasts, which is actually realistic considering a lot of breasts is fat. As for celebrities in general, how does the media "portray" them like this? That is their actual figure, whether or not they got implants and a tummy-tuck. I think some celebrities have this body naturally. Perhaps, their body was what got them the job. Yes, this can give people negative self-images of themselves, but then couldn't a regular woman walking down the street make them feel the same way? Perhaps, the media does paint celebrities like the perfect woman, making normal people feel the need to be more like them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just an example of how the media portrays celebrities unrealistically: I forget what movie it was for, but Angelina Jolie didn't like her legs in a photo they took for a poster, so they airbrushed them out and drew entirely new ones. Or a picture of Keira Knightley on a magazine cover, they enhanced her breasts. (I heard she sued them for that because they didn't ask her about it before publishing the photo.)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're right. I was actually about to reply to my own comment about that. Photoshopping and airbrushing are good examples.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Often times it isn't their natural figure though ... Take a look at most of the A-list actresses and compare them to how they looked when they first started working. (Ex.Jessica Alba, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Rose Byrne, etc ...) The more famous a women gets, more than often the smaller she gets and that's horrible because all those women had beautiful bodies to begin with. I'm not saying that some women in Hollywood wood aren't naturally thin, of course some are. But for those who aren't, they have to make themselves that way it else they won't get any work. I think that really does send a horrible message to girls.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You make a good point. I personally don't have a problem with celebrities that want to get fit. As long as they are not scary skinny, it's fine. Of course there are girls who will go to extremes to get like these celebrities, and that is bad. People should not feel pressured or ugly because they are not thin. I just want to say that SOME celebrities and models are naturally thin or got thin through diet and exercise. As long as they are healthy, they have every right to do this, even if they weren't overweight before. I don't necessarily think all celebrities are in the wrong, but since they have such a huge influences they should come out and support a healthy body image for young girls and women.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah I completely agree with what you said. I guess my issue is that all of those women were fit to begin with and then they were made to feel like they still weren't good enough. :( But absolutely I don't blame them at all, they need to work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, I get what you're saying. It was just after I had to a lot of research that you find out that how much girls don't like themselves after. Even if it is a skinny girl looking at a healthy woman. A paragraph on my essay is about how the girls just have low confidence already. It's a real interesting topic. You should look at it sometime. The average diet age for a girl to start is 8.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Whoa, I didn't know about the diet thing. It is an interesting topic indeed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nah, I think it gives them a negative self-image about other people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago