Akiko's 2nd journal.

During the last class we watched an interview between Tyra Banks and Yoanna House. Tyra Banks is a famous top model and at the same time she released CD’s. She has some TV programs in which she is the host I watched “America’s Next Top Model” several times and then I felt that I wish I wanted to be like them. At the same time, I thought the job as a model is also hard. I knew almost all jobs in the world are hard even they don’t look too hard, theya re somehow hard. Only the people who worked for at these jobs knows how hard theya re. However, until I watched the TV program I couldn’t imagine how hard being a model was and what kinds of difficulties are involved. There are a lot of beautiful people in this world, so it is hard to keep the position as a model. Their work looks so simple but it is really hard. They have to know the concept of goods very well and also have to express to people. They have to be confident in themselves. For me, it is really hard to be confident. I have various inferiority complexes. Almost all people have some kind of complexes. Yoanna House was also one of us. She felt inferior to her shape, so she lost about 60 pounds. It must be really difficult. In the TV program “America’s Next Top Model”, she still cared about her body shape even though she was not fat. Actually in the model’s business world, people require them to be skinny, so if somebody wants to be a model, she or he needs to become skinny. I know skinny people look nice and clothes look better when skinny people wear them. However, because of this, a lot of models develop a serious disease, which is called anorexia. Many models suffer from anorexia because they become afraid to eat and to gain weight. I wonder if it is the best to be or become skinny. I also feel that I need to lose weight but I am not too serious like them. I love to eat. I love being myself even though I have no confidence in myself. It may sound strange to you but what I mean is that I want to be myself better than I lose my own ideas. In the interview they are talking about Yoanna’s story about her diet. I wonder how people think or feel about it. People may think if they lose weight and become skinny like Yoanna, they would become a top model. She introduced a proper but important way of dieting. She gave people a hope with her success story.

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This is my 2nd journal...