Super skinny celebs suffer like the rest of us
February 12th 2007 05:58
I don’t particularly like the look of women with size 0 (size 4 is Australian terms) figures.
I don’t particularly like the industry that promotes that type of figure as attractive.
Equally however I do not particularly like the blinkered and insensitive approach that is often taken when referring to those people who aspire to a size 0 figure.
The BBC is to run a thought provoking and controversial series cleverly titled Super Slim Me, a parody on the US hit Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock. The series covers a range of issues associated with the phenomenon of the size 0.
In the series the presenter of the series Dawn Porter attempts to reduce her figure from a healthy size 12 to a size 4 in only 8 weeks by surviving on only 500 calories a day, effectively starving herself compared to a normal intake of over 2,000 calories per day.
Much like Morgan Spurlock the effects of the drastic eating changes on her body and mind were remarkable. Most interesting in the process were the effects of the change on her mind. Despite losing an enormous amount of weight in the making of the film it appeared that her mental approach to weight loss and/or weight gain became ever more manic as the process continuyed. The ability to go for long periods of time feeling hungry became a source of pride rather than a basic human need to ingest food. Any reference to her body or body shape results in more extreme behaviour.
To add to the picture all of these results came from a normal lady who did not have to rely on body image to secure her living. Imagine this same scenario in a young impressionable model who’s future career path is definitely related to her body shape. Consider an actress or IT girl who’s next piece of work is intricately linked to their ability to produce an out of this world figure.
Body image is important for most people in this world and at once stage of another all of us will have spent some time worrying about it. For those that live in the spotlight and who’s income depend on it an obsessive approach is neither surprising nor easy to break with.
I don’t particularly like the industry that promotes that type of figure as attractive.
Equally however I do not particularly like the blinkered and insensitive approach that is often taken when referring to those people who aspire to a size 0 figure.
The BBC is to run a thought provoking and controversial series cleverly titled Super Slim Me, a parody on the US hit Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock. The series covers a range of issues associated with the phenomenon of the size 0.
In the series the presenter of the series Dawn Porter attempts to reduce her figure from a healthy size 12 to a size 4 in only 8 weeks by surviving on only 500 calories a day, effectively starving herself compared to a normal intake of over 2,000 calories per day.
Much like Morgan Spurlock the effects of the drastic eating changes on her body and mind were remarkable. Most interesting in the process were the effects of the change on her mind. Despite losing an enormous amount of weight in the making of the film it appeared that her mental approach to weight loss and/or weight gain became ever more manic as the process continuyed. The ability to go for long periods of time feeling hungry became a source of pride rather than a basic human need to ingest food. Any reference to her body or body shape results in more extreme behaviour.
To add to the picture all of these results came from a normal lady who did not have to rely on body image to secure her living. Imagine this same scenario in a young impressionable model who’s future career path is definitely related to her body shape. Consider an actress or IT girl who’s next piece of work is intricately linked to their ability to produce an out of this world figure.
Body image is important for most people in this world and at once stage of another all of us will have spent some time worrying about it. For those that live in the spotlight and who’s income depend on it an obsessive approach is neither surprising nor easy to break with.
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Comment by Vixter
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I remember watching supersize me and the guy talked about lethargy - but there was so much food going in...but all bad...I wonder if it did anything else?
I don't know if I could do anything that extreme to my bod - I like the idea of health but I'm still a vino on the weekends girl!
Is the woman who made the series OK now?
Comment by DavidH
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Thanks for the kind comments.
Here is the link.
If you are not in the UK to watch the show on tele often the BBC will leave content from BBC3 shows on their website but if they don't then I'm not sure how to get a hold of a copy, maybe youtube?
The link seems to suggest the lady returned to good health, save for some indigestion perhaps as she returned to her normal calorie intake.
Comment by Vixter
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thanks for the link.
I wonder what a person who does this as part of their life would say abotu this article?