DO THIN MODELS WARP GIRLS' BODY IMAGE?
MODEL VS AVERAGE GIRL
HOW IS MY ARTICLE RELATED TO LAW?
WHY SHOULD STUDENTS BE INTERESTED IN THIS ATICLE LIKE I WAS?
- Segregation
- Making any girl that is not tall and skinny feel bad about themselves
- Equality
- Deminstrates a big issue in sociey and women today
INTERESTRING DETAIL
- The way that this topic is actually affecting women's self-esteem
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- Should underweight models be banned from the fashion industry? Why or why not?
- Should we change the image or concept of how models are supposed to be? How?
- What should the media and society do to help women feel about themselves?
IMPORTANT PEOPLE cont.
BASIC DETAILS
cont.
- Katie Ford/ chief executive officer of Ford Models
- Cindi leive/ editor in chief of Glamour Magazine
- Kelly Cutrone/ owner of People's Revolution
- Stephanie Schur/ designer
- Audrey Brashich/ former teen model, author of All Made Up: A Girls' Guide to Seeing Threw Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real And Beauty
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
DO THIN MODLES WARP GIRLS' BODY IMAGE?
- women are having to deal with self-confidence issues
- women are feeling self-concious with their bodies
- people are questioning wether underweight models should be in the fashion industry at all
- Glamour magazine stated that they don't have underweight models or frequently featured models
- an average model is about 5'10" or 5'11", weighs about 120-124 lbs, is about size 2-4
- USA Today
- Nansi Helmich
- 9/26/2006
BASIC DETAILS
- Frederique van der Wal/ former Victoria Secret model, host of Cover Shot on TLC
- Nada Stotland/ professor of psychiatry at Rush Medical Collage , vice president of the American Psychiatric Association
- Sarah Murnen/ professor of Psychology at Kenyon Collage
- Sharon Lamb/ psychologist, and co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketer's Schemes
- Models are extremely thin
- Girls from the ages of 9-10 are having self-esteem issues
- Teen girls are having eating disorders
- The media is producing a dangerously thin image that women try to pursue through extreme measures
- The fashion industry is putting out an image to the public that is making some women feel inferior to models