Hyunjoo- 2nd journal

The diet, this has been the most challenging assignment of my life so far (maybe it’s going to be continued.) I started to go on a diet when I was 14 years old, and I’ve been repeating losing and gaining weight. I think I tried many different kinds of diet such as one-food diet, fitness, jogging, fasting…. I even took medicine which decreases appetite. It seems like going on diet is my habit. I got self-confidence when I managed to lose weight as much as I wanted, meanwhile, when I gained weight again, it was even more stressful than before and was leaded to overeating and I was seized with thoughts that I’m too fat. Even though people say to me I’m not fat, my body image, that I saw, reflected in the mirror was seen too fat.

What the problem is that this is not only my problem. Women’s desire to be slim, even skinny, is becoming a social issue. Especially, fashion models, who have to be skinny, are suffering from their weight. Some models, in fact, died having been on a diet excessively for a few years. As a result, it is said that too skinny model has to be left to make right image of beauty to public.
Another problem is that the number of people who have a eating disorder is increasing. Being seized with stress of a diet, their body rejects food. There is the website where the people, especially young girls who want to be skinny, share information, they are going on a diet sharing inappropriate diet methods, drugs information or seeing the uploaded picture of skinny models. They even say it’s sexy seeing a rib sticking out of body because of being skinny.

Yollana, who appeared on Tyra’s show, said proudly she lost weight 50 pounds after 2 years to be a model, which infers women should be slim to be beautiful. Even though she made an effort to lose weight for a long time in a healthy way, the audience doesn’t see the process but the figure seen right now. It isn’t easy to change people’s perception about beauty but there should be no people who suffer from that problem at least and any shows on TV should contribute to do so now that it affects to public a lot.