It’s amazing what celebrities and youngsters today are willing to do to their own bodies in a bid to look ‘good’. Looking good is an extremely subjective matter. Looking good should not be a matter how thin or how fat a person is. In order to be attractive, first, one must FEEL attractive, regardless of the clothes that person has on his or her body. Being comfortable in one’s skin is an important aspect of having a good image of yourself. If a woman is having a bad day and is down emotionally, she will not look good….regardless of what clothes she is wearing and how much she has spent on that Prada bag hanging off her shoulder! The inner glow that I am talking about is self confidence and health! Once you’ve ironed out this crease, you can wear anything (or wear nothing) and still feel and look like a million bucks.
The chopsticks walking down the red carpet at every Hollywood event doesn’t help much either. The young tend to look to the trends set by stars that they admire. If the stars that they adore are starving themselves into spaghetti strands, the youngsters are bound to follow. The celebrities who go on insane and inhumane ‘health regimes’ are setting a bad example for the young people of today. Our body should be proportionate and if we are not blessed with a well-proportioned body, we can choose clothes that make us look good. End of story. Beauty has nothing to do with the price tag or brand name attached to the clothes we wear either, I might add.
Everyday, we see news and pictures of these celebrities denying their own bodies nutrition, going on over-excessive slimming exercise routines designed by professional healthcare instructors and some even go as far as to take drugs….all in a bid to look good for the sake of others. Being comfortable is more important than catching up with the Joneses. Especially the Joneses that we’re talking here are Hollywood celebrities. However, the obsession with waif-like posture is not confined to Hollywood alone. Sadly, the starve-till-stick-thin belief is everywhere we look.
Thin is not equivalent to looking good, I would like to remind my dear readers.
Note: Image from istockphoto.com
