I made a post about how hot Mariah Carey is.
and my lovely friend Kat mentioned that she has lost a lot of weight, and she is so right.

what i don't understand why all this showbiz personalities are forced to lose ridiculous amounts of weigth?
why can't they just be what they are?
furthermore, they influence so many young minds, and that us why we have so many anorexic teenagers.

they say you can never be too rich or too thin.

I am doomed from all sides.

Maybe because Hollywood's perception of beauty is vastly different than the way MOST women really are. They make young girls feel as though they need be a Barbie doll.

ok TLW- you and I FINALLY agree on something

Why indeed? It's ridiculous. My niece developed anorexia at the age of 11. And it's not just teenagers, it's adults as well. Woman are bombarded with images of what they "should" look like and it takes an incredible toll sometimes on the way we see ourselves. And men, too, often end up with a distorted view of what a woman should look like.

The question is, how do we end this horribly viscious cycle? I talk to my son constantly about accepting and embracing differences and about the reality of what he sees every day on tv and magazine and movies, etc. Will it make a difference, I don't know. But, I hope so.

we agree in too many things, sometimes we just don't wanna see it.

point taken

unfortunately that's what they get paid for...truly i blame the media...

mr.walker you do have a valid question and point. i always wonder though about not just the weight issues, but what about all the partying, drugs, car accidents, etc. that celebrities expose are children to.

just a thought

Is this a new Mutual Match?

oooh hiker

i havnt saw pictures of her recently, but before i thought she had a lovely curvy body. but its the fashion now to look like a lolli pop, and to me that looks awful, i think a women with nice curves looks much nicer, seeing bones sticking out doesnt look good in my opinion. young teens think they should look like that and they starve thereself, why in magazines etc do they only show lolli pops and not a healthy women like the majority of the population, its bad and so clear why teens and adults are starving themselfs and getting eating disorders.

I have to say, It's not just Hollywood. I have been over weight all my life, and every day society is pretty ignorant and judgemental.

I dpmt get it why.........iam a not skinny girl//////////all thought i have been skinner....right now iam not at my body li like.but hte point is..........i alwasy been a meaty woemn., i just used too have better body............ahaha

Everyday people go through the same forces of weight fluctuations, it just is not noticed from John Q Public.
Darling Mariah loves the attention, that is why her profession is in drama

im the uk a size 14 is classed as average. im size 12, and im average, thats not skinny or fat, just a healthy weight. i dont want to be a lolli pop, but i will say when i was younger i would starve myself and not eat for days, because basically i wanted to look like all these skinny celebrities. now i dont, because i watch the celeberties on tv now and some look awful with there back bones sticking out etc, now id much rather be the way i am and curvy and not like the celebrities are.

whats the average size in america??