By Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist
In the past several weeks I’ve run into three celebrities who have embraced the super skinny look. I was on line in a store behind Sarah Jessica Parker. From behind she looked like a crackhead. Her jeans hung off her and her body looked like a skeleton.
Lindsay Lohan, same thing. Scary, but she was wearing tights and it was alarming to see. Ashlee Simpson as well and she’s a new mother. While she’s stuffing her baby with fat-inducing baby formula, she’s starving herself.
And please, don’t believe a word of the nonsense when a celebrity says “I eat whatever I want.” Pure bullshit. Remember, I work with celebrities. They live in a fantasy land.
What’s also scary (and much more important than what a celebrity chooses to do to themselves) is the effect this is having on girls.
Celebrity magazines, while pretending to sound the alarm about this issue are actually promoting it.
As concerned as I am about obesity, I am also concerned with the trend towards the super skinny look. It’s becoming more and more prevalent in Manhattan where I see young girls AND THEIR MOTHERS who have become far too thin. It’s unhealthy and unsightly. Girls- do a search on Rachel Welch and Sophia Loren to see what looks sexy.
Now I hear that there are websites that actually promote this look and this lifestyle. Basically they teach young girls how to starve themselves. Here’s an article about the issue.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32913964/ns/health-mental_health/
By becoming too skinny, you deprive your body of vital nutrients. You need fat to survive. If you lose too much weight, your vital organs will begin to malfunction and shut down. Unfortunately, this means nothing to a teenage girl. But perhaps a father will see this and help his daughter before it’s too late. Kids die from eating disorders. When you’re dead, you’re dead forever. No second chances.
Terms like anorexia and bulimia have become generic and have lost any impact. They’ve been reduced to jargon. We need to re-instill the seriousness of this issue. As catastrophic as is the obesity crisis, the flip side of this is also in need of serious attention.
Ray Salomone Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist
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1 Comment
September 22, 2009 at 01:07
You know with this new focus on obesity and the concentration that being fat equals unhealthy with no concern for what constitutes fat (how do millions of people go to bed healthy and wake up overweight? CDC knows!), this is one of my biggest worries. Especially as the the mother of 3 large boys and a teenage daughter. When I say large I don’t mean overweight either. LOL
As a mom, let me tell you this doesn’t only affect teenage girls. Anorexia has become more common in younger children and in boys. This terrifies me. You may die of being overweight in 40 years but you can die in 3 of not eating! I’d really prefer my children learn the middle ground, and I focus very much on the same idea. You need some of the things they are telling you to eliminate. It’s TOO MUCH that can cause you problems. Fat does not equal unhealthy, but skinny does not equal healthy either.