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Thin as Paper

She stands in front of the mirror examining her slim ninety pound body. In our eyes, she appears to be malnourished and frail, but in her eyes she sees herself as fat and revolting. She will continue to lose weight in order to fulfill her goal of looking thinner and sexier than the girls in Seventeen or on MTV. Nothing we say will change her mind. Her ears block the sound when we tell her she looks beautiful. The only voice she hears is her eating disorder telling her how overweight she is. The next time we see her she is as thin as paper and as pale as a ghost. That day we pay our final respects to a girl whose ears were blocked by an eating disorder and whose eyes were changed by the impact of the media.
The television and magazine advertising media should not portray females as Barbie dolls because these advertisements often lead to eating disorders in teenage girls. Teenagers live in a world where the media provides role models who teach them to value beauty and thinness over str...

Posted by: Alexander Bartfield

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