I saw a picture once and it said "Men wouldn't look at me when I was skinny, but since I gained 10 pounds with this new easy way, I have all the dates I want Know that fast forward to the year 2014, everyone is at the gym because gaining 10 pounds is a huge no no Our 20th century society has us! learned that we have to look like the models who walk the runway at Fashion Week. These women never look happy. They look like they're starving, and who ever said that being hungry was a good thing? the following paragraphs I will write about how the image I found about twenty years ago has absolutely no relevance to our society today I recently came across this blog with the image that. said "Men didn't look at me when I was skinny", and that really shocked me. If you see the woman in the photo, she should weigh at least 140 pounds. It amazes me how women of fifty years ago thought that being skinny was not normal. In an article by Tamara Abraham in Mail Online, she includes photos of a vintage article of a woman who hugged her curves. One of the photos says: “Stop being skinny and tired.” In high school, I had a friend who competed and she would always tell us that she would eat chocolate in front of the other girls she was competing against, and she would say "they looked at me with faces like I couldn't do it." think you're eating chocolate. Our society has brainwashed girls into believing that weighing 140 pounds for a 5'7 girl is fat, when in fact she is healthy. Over the years, the media has portrayed what a woman should really look like. In a study by Paula Saukko, she writes that women are on a “…quest for thinness.” It was not until the 1980s that anorexia became known... middle of paper ... "beach body" companies like Hanes and Dove do not use models who appear healthy as they say it. people for their businesses. Covergirl used Queen Latifah as a spokesperson and did an incredible job representing beauty not only for her weight, but also for her culture. Many singers and actresses have promoted eating disorders. For example, we've seen that the famous Demi Lovato has openly spoken about her own battle with bulimia. Being one of the biggest teenage icons in the world today, she was able to say that I'm not perfect, and yes, I struggle with bulimia, but you can only get better. Woman, sometimes we don't understand why we do what we do, but the media, images and television affect us in positive and negative ways. By continuing to be women, we will likely continue to fall into the same trap again and again..