Upsetting article

[Lorisa]

:nono: about the messages a teen magazine, "Girl's Life", is sending to young girls

http://jezebel.com/5257583/girls-life-magazine-repeat-body-image-offenders

I would reccomend checking out the link at the end of the article that goes to the Girls Life Magazine's website's "Healthy You Program" - the advice the forum's moderator is giving to these girls is pretty horrifying...

[saraz]

It messed up, I dont get why they put these stories in teen mags. I think being a teen is the worst time for any young woman/girl to go through. Its so hard because everything just changes. The media is pretty big in it, but I don't think its everything to blame. For me high school itself was a huge part of my insecurities.

Being around other girls that I thought was thinner/prettier than me made me feel bad about myself and wanted to lose weight in a unhealthy drastic way. I didn't care how I lost the weight I wouldn't eat anything for up to 5 days at a time and sometimes I would only eat 1 small meal a day like half of a sandwich or something. I think mags and forums like that only feed the flames and make things worse.

[CallmeAnn]

Well, junior high was way more hellish for me. By the time I got to high school, people cared less about making someone whose body still thinks she is nine years old feel sub-human. Mostly, I guess they got past the instruction from the school queen bee that anyone who spoke to me would not be spoken to by anyone else. Was I fat? No, I just had no breasts The fact is that if you don't look like a supermodel with implants, you're totally uncool.

[saraz]

I agree with your post too. Middle school was just like High School for me, I was still depressed and I was overweight for my height. I still struggled to make friends and keep the few I already had. lol, now that I look back at my whole school life, I was never really happy and never liked the way I looked or fit in. :P