Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Friendship, Power of Words, Resources, Schools on Oct 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
Does my bum look big in this?
I HATE MY THIGHS.
You look great–did you lose weight?
Fat talk. Many of us do it every day as we play the “compare and despair” game, trying to live up to an impossible stick-thin ideal of what we should look like and what it means to be feminine. [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Resources on Apr 26th, 2009 5 Comments »
This month, alarming research was published showing that eating disorders now plague very young children. The study’s findings included a child only 5 years of age who was hospitalised with Early Onset Eating Disorder (EOED).
It was Dr Sloane Madden from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, who raised the alarm: “What we are seeing [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders on Feb 5th, 2009 10 Comments »
The quote above is taken from the YouTube clip below. This documentary provides an incredibly powerful insight into adolescent, and pre-adolescent, girls and their relationship with their bodies:
Now consider the messages Australian teen girls will be receiving this week if they tune into channel 10’s The Biggest Loser. I wrote an Opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald on this [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Fashion Industry, Media, Women and Film on Sep 23rd, 2008 10 Comments »
Guest post by Enlighten Education NSW’s newest team member, Nikki Davis:
Looks like thin is no longer in. Skeletal is the new body ideal judging by the physiques of the female celebrities who are hot property right now.
I have to confess that I, and a number of my friends, were more than a little excited [...]
Posted in Body Image, Friendship, Media, Parents, Resources, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Aug 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
This week I want to share extracts from “Teenage Mental health: girls shout out!”, the third research report recently released by GirlGuiding UK:
Teenage mental health: Girls shout out! is an investigation into girls’ experiences of both hard-to manage and challenging feelings and recognised mental health problems. The report considers a new generation of potential triggers for [...]
Posted in Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Fashion Industry on Jan 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
Stylist to the stars Patricia Field (she of Sex in the City fame) has an oh so cool web site promoting must have items for budding fashionistas. One item, the Trash and Luxury Celebrity Diet shirt is described as:
Another amazing celeb inspired tee. The celebrity diet, and our diet. Complete with a balanced cigarette, and some [...]
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