I find it ironic you are all complaining about a thin model, when Australia now has more than 60% of its adult population classed as overweight / obese.

The girl in the photo (assuming it is real) obviously has a problem. If society is to blame for skinny girls with image problems, whose fault is the fat epidemic?

People should spend more time enjoying life (i.e. eating good food, being active) rather than sitting on a couch / at a desk eating fast food, reading gossip magazines and watching reality programs.

Take some ownership, look after yourself, stop blaming other people, and ignore 'society'.

I am inclined to think that in a way fat pple are rebelling against the socitial ideals...that it may be so depressing to the vulnerable at least, that the ideals are so unattainable that they simply feed the hurt rather than attack it the way anorexics do..


Being overweight and having anorexic issues are mainly for the same reasons,,feeding or starving our misery.

I am inclined to think that in a way fat pple are rebelling against the socitial ideals...

But those ideals didn't arise until after there were lots of fat people, and the ideals are based on sound health advice. The obesity epidemic is largely caused by sedentary lifestyles, abundant food and to a lesser extent low quality food.

10 more causes of obesity http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1164689657

Fat people. The ideals may or may not have arisen in response to the obesity epidemic, but they certainly did not create it.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Women-call-for-body-image-guidelines/2007/03/03/1172868810885.html

A young women's advocacy group is calling for guidelines to help control body image promoted by fashion models.

YWCA Victoria's cry for help comes after three international models died from illnesses complicated by anorexia.

The group wants the federal government to work with the fashion industry, health professionals and stakeholders to introduce guidelines and wipe out the suffering for girls and women - some starve themselves to death.

Ms Rees said pursuing the perfect look could threaten health, causing eating disorders, dangerous dieting, purging, smoking and depression.

"Anorexia is the third most common disease in Australian females, aged 15 to 24," she said.

She said the guidelines should cover the appropriate body mass index (BMI) for models and the most appropriate age for models projecting certain images.

"The guidelines would ensure that models are models of good health," she said.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) supports the group's charter to help protect women from body-image issues.

Now your seeing the picture AUShole. Marketing (Propaganda (Media)) controls how we think, what we want, what we believe our needs are and how we percieve ourselves. You need to combat psychology with psychology.

Government uses the media but they have the advantage over media magnates because they control the education. The government controls our childrens way of thinking until the mass media gets to them but, the government has already set the foundations of thinking via our schools.

I don't think too many 'normal' men or woman would find the above image anything short of disturbing.

To blame 'men' for what is essentially a mental health disorder, a disorder which the individual themselves suffers with is both sexist and blamist.

You hear more about female models who pass away due to this terrible  affliction, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, though we don't hear much about young men who suffer with the same condition.

When I was in my early teens, my mother 'fostered' a boy (aged 16) , a couple of years older than me who had a weight problem during his pre-teen childhood, I remembered him from primary school being quite chubby though by 16, he looked like a bag of bones.
Anyway, I noticed him disappearing to the toilet and or shower after each meal, as though he was edgy until the job was done. He would often run the shower so we couldn't hear him purging said he was having a shower, though I could tell he hadn't. This or he would go for a walk 'alone' around the block to a church public-toilet to chuck.

Anyway, my mother told me to stop being stupid, intrusive, ie "As if he would be bulimic"...so I turned off the toilet tap one afternoon and waited.

Sure enough, he came out (I had an older and mutual friend of ours visiting).... he was crying and begging my friend to fix the toilet, (probably knew I had done something to it), so he could flush his vomit.

My mother then realised he had a serious problem,(ding, ding, ding finally)  but unfortunately, despite counselling he continued purging after meals anyway. His skin was awful, zinc deficiency I suspect.

Then he left our house several months later, fell in with a nasty crowd, and to be honest, I have no idea where he is now or what he's doing, he might even be dead for all I know, he looked pretty bad the last time I saw him.

Sad, he was a bright kid, really bright, came from an abusive background, parents polish, mother doting, and loved to cook, and father, aggressive and physical, who loved to put crap on him about his weight.

He couldn't win!

Please mummy, be chubby and eat up all her food.

or...

Please daddy decline mummies food or be called names and beaten.


 I'm sure this is what caused this problem.

When he left home, he even changed his name, (It was a Polish name), to something more Australian, his mother honestly cried when she saw her son, she adored him, and left her husband a few months after he came to live with us, but it was too late.

Most of the kids I knew who had this disorder had crap parents.

This may sound harsh, but there appears to be a pattern of mentally/physically abusive parenting.

The Girl in the picture is obviously anorexic - this is a health issue and well past attractivness, this is not what models typically look like.

I find the image sad and disturbing.

Looks like she was a very pretty young girl once.