Research suggests that 1% of all teenage US girls are anorexic. Now for a start, I am not from the US. I am from Europe, from a tiny country called the Netherlands (you might have heard of it. Cheese, tulips, mills... we have 'em. We just don't wear clogs 24/7). Secondly, these figures (1% of all girls) might only be girls who have been recorded as being anorexic. There are loads of other girls out there who have kept it secret and have thus not been recorded; the actual number of anorexic girls might be way bigger.
Let me just say that I know what it's like to feel fat. Or actually... to think you feel fat. Because I am not fat. I am skinny, and I know it. Although at times, I do fall back into the same old pattern of not eating for days, while feeling the 'flabs' of my stomach.
Yes, everyone knows them; the infamous flabs. Curse them. But to be honest, to all girls out there, you are not fat. You have no flabs. Go look in the mirror, look at your stomach, and be honest with yourselves: you are NOT fat.
Nowadays, models are supposed to represent the 'perfect female'. They've got the legs, they've got the abs, the boobs, the hair, the eyes, the skin, the bone structure... they have it all. Or do they?
Because seriously, how much of it is photoshopped? There is not a single photograph that enters a magazine without being photoshopped, research shows. So to all you girls out there, old or young, short or tall, you are all beautiful. Who knows what these models look like in real life?!
What I'm trying to say is, leave these models alone. Please do not attack them because of their weight. There are a couple of reasons for that; I'll discuss them some other time.
Before I go and sleep, please also do not think I am all pro-ana right now. Because that's debatable.
Goodnight <3
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