Many people want to look like their favourite celebrity. They are everywhere, from billboards to magazines and television adverts - there’s no escaping. People look up to celeb’s and their rich and famous lifestyles, including their success and beauty. Some can only help but imagine what it would be like, others work hard to become a success; others would literally take action on trying to become like someone else.
Something which I find quite worrying is when teenagers, predominantly those who are females, begin to look at celebrities and models on the TV and in magazines and then become critical of their body and physical features. When those affected begin to starve themselves they are doing more harm than they are doing good. An eating disorder is a serious thing, because the body becomes malnutritioned and will eventually begin to malfunction. To think that people want to look good, yet they know that starving themselves will eventually cause illness and ultimately deteriorate their figure.
It’s a matter of how desperate they become to look like their favourite celebrity. Some will put looking thinner as a priority over looking healthier – and size zero models are very peculiar, unnatural, a bad influence not to mention unattractive.
I recall there was TV a programme (I think hosted by Alesha Dixon) which I had unfortunately missed, about models being airbrushed in magazines and how they influenced the teenage readers to become obsessed with looking ‘perfect’. The show looked further into the matter and created a magazine with non-airbrushed images and did all the photos without any effects or tweaking the images.
Natural beauty is the best beauty. Be yourself. Be happy with who you are, the way you look and what you have.
Alesha: Look But Don’t Touch - http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/jul/08/lastnightstvaleshalookbut
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