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Whether you’re turning on the TV or flicking through a magazine, you can’t escape it. The size zero debate is set to keep on running.
Pretty much every magazine has run a feature on it, and no celebrity has been interviewed in the last year without being quizzed about it.
Clearly it’s a positive turn of events when magazines start dedicating pages upon pages to promoting positive body image for women.
Of course this positivity would be compounded further if the same magazines started using “normal” sized models and stopped devoting columns to the newest dieting trend.
However, the recent programmes The Truth About Size Zero and Superskinny Me: The Race to a Size Double Zero have taken the debate to a whole new level.
The Truth About Size Zero saw ex-pop-princess Louise Redknapp do her best to slim from her usual size eight to a US size zero (UK size four).
Using a punishing exercise regime, coupled with a very limited diet, Louise tried to lose weight.
In Superskinny Me, journalists Kate Spicer and Louise Burke gave themselves five weeks to drop five dress sizes.
Both women embarked on various faddy diets and supplemented their regimes with copious amounts of exercise.
Now for the shock: all three women lost weight. Yes, that’s right, both programmes proved if you pretty much starve yourself and exercise as much as possible you will drop dress sizes quickly.
Alongside this, both Louise Redknapp and Kate Spicer admitted to liking their increasingly boney physiques.
These programmes were billed as investigations into the physical and emotional toll extreme dieting takes on the body.
Did we really need two television programmes to tell us it was a bad idea? Is it really that shocking that some of the participants revelled in their new skinny forms?
Women like to look thin! Where’s the shock? Any woman who’s cheerily jumped off the scales after a bout of ‘flu has left them several pounds lighter could tell you that.
The stick-like figure of post-programme Louise Redknapp has lead to her becoming an icon on pro-anorexia websites.
This begs the question, if these programmes were truly intent on pointing out the horrors of this kind of regime, why did they go into such detail when reporting the women’s diets? Surely it was obvious ill people everywhere would use this programme for tips?
So, perhaps it’s time to stop tirelessly devoting pages to the size zero debate. Yes there are celebrities who are scarily thin, but what good comes from pointing this out? Very few adult woman can be a natural size zero , which means these women are ill.
No amount of column inches are going to make them better, nor stop young girls who are prone to eating disorders from developing them. These girls have a disease – it’s not as easy as suggesting they just look at a thin celeb and decide to stop eating.
Chances are if someone is prone to this kind of disorder it will happen. Show them thin people and yes they’ll want to emulate them, but show them overweight people and they’ll stop eating to ensure they don’t end up like them.
If the media really wants to help stop eating disorders, how about they stop printing dieting tips, stop making such an issue of everyone’s weight (famous or not) and stop sensationalising the size zero issue? After all, would it really be a phenomenon if it wasn’t for them?
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