Following up on the post about Jennifer Hudson’s motivation to
lose weight, I came across an eye-opening report recently. It is available at the link below:
I mentioned in the prior post that the entertainment industry is
notorious for holding up unrealistic standards of female beauty. The women promoted in the industry use all
kinds of artificial means to meet those standards. They aren’t natural beauties. Or if they are, that is not what we’re being
shown. As a result, as a society, we
have lost sense of what women naturally look like. The images in media are such a distortion of
reality.
But the report at the link above focuses on just one aspect of
this—the weight of today’s models. There
has always been a gap between the weight of models and average women. But the report describes how in recent years
that gap has dramatically increased.
Models, who were celebrated in the 1980s and 1990s, would be considered
fat by today’s standards in the modeling industry.
Indeed, today’s models often look grotesque. Long thin arms and legs without padding on
the bones. Protruding rib cages and hip
bones. Today’s models are so thin they
are reminiscent of what human beings looked like when the Allies liberated Nazi
death camps or when there is dire famine in Sub-Sahara African. Those are such horrifying, tragic associations,
I’m not sure why such extreme thinness is held up as a standard of beauty. To me, it is just evidence of a person’s
physical starvation and ill health. It
is tragic and sad, not a source of beauty.
1 Peter 3
Rather, [your beauty] should be
that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,
which is of great worth in God’s sight.
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