Hi beautiful people.
I am sat here, watching Jo Frost Extreme Parental Guidance and a very interesting point emerged in terms of body issues. It links well with my last post from yesterday.
Jo showed a girl two images of her. One was of her at her size, and another was of her two sizes smaller (having been photo-shopped). When asked which she would prefer to be, the girl responded 'that one' pointing to the edited version. Considering she was around 10 years old, this was clearly a concerning matter.
Jo then spoke to a group of young girls about their body image, as well as asking them how their Mum's view their body. They all replied with 'My Mum thinks she has a big bum'...or 'My mum points to pictures and says Ewww look at my tummy!"
When Mum's are criticizing their own bodies, it's important to take into consideration who else may be listening. Children learn off people they love. They are taught manners, they are taught how to brush their teeth, they are taught how to read...but they can also subconsciously be taught the negative aspects of a parents life...such as if it a parent smokes, a small part must demonstrate to a child that's okay, or if a parent diets, this must mean its normal. This is not pinpointing in anyway, it just highlighted to me another way in which young girls and boys can become so self conscious and self loathing of themselves and their bodies.
Take care all,
Hannah x
Sunday 5 June 2011
Saturday 4 June 2011
When do you begin to teach children body confidence?
At what age do you guys think it is relevant to teach children how to be confident and comfortable in their own skin? Whilst you want to prevent any body image issues children have, you also don't want to intrude on their childhood with information about the big scary world of diets and models...when they should be playing 'tag' or hide and seek.
My aunt called me the other day. She told me my cousin (aged 9) told her to not put cheese on her spaghetti bolognaise because she was on a diet. This scared the hell out of me and brought a tear to my eye. She had been picked on at school about her weight. She is in NO way fat. She is in NO way chubby.
A few days later, my aunt told me she caught her shaving because she was being picked on about the amount of hair she had on her arms and legs.
It has left me thinking. At what age does a child become conscious of their body? Are body issues at this age a matter of come-back digs from fellow classmates in the playground, or are they being hit by the issue of the media and their view of perfection? Aged 9, I didn't know of the word 'diet'...neither did I know women could shave, for all I saw it was men putting some obscure foam on their chins and wondering around like Father Christmas.
Leave your thoughts,
Hannah x
My aunt called me the other day. She told me my cousin (aged 9) told her to not put cheese on her spaghetti bolognaise because she was on a diet. This scared the hell out of me and brought a tear to my eye. She had been picked on at school about her weight. She is in NO way fat. She is in NO way chubby.
A few days later, my aunt told me she caught her shaving because she was being picked on about the amount of hair she had on her arms and legs.
It has left me thinking. At what age does a child become conscious of their body? Are body issues at this age a matter of come-back digs from fellow classmates in the playground, or are they being hit by the issue of the media and their view of perfection? Aged 9, I didn't know of the word 'diet'...neither did I know women could shave, for all I saw it was men putting some obscure foam on their chins and wondering around like Father Christmas.
Leave your thoughts,
Hannah x
Plus-sized models grace Vogue Italia cover
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/06/03/Plus-sized-models-grace-Vogue-Italia-cover/UPI-64301307119643/
The June edition of Vogue in Italy is now going to have the presence of three 'plus-sized models', with claims this is specifically targeted at fighting anorexia. This is such a brilliant example of how the fashion world is attempting to change the view of beauty - you do not need to be size zero to be beautiful, and heck most people aren't naturally size zero anyway :)
Really happy to read this article. Slowly the world will realise that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes!!
Really happy to read this article. Slowly the world will realise that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes!!
Updates Galore!
Hi everyone,
Just to let you know what's been hip-hap-and-hoppening recently with 'Hungry for Change'... We are currently in the process of organising our photo-shoot so an email will be hitting your inbox's soon! We really hope this will raise awareness for eating disorders by demonstrating that they are not all just about size so that's all really exciting :)
The website is still in progress with Hannah and I working our little socks off to try and make it look as great as possible! It is published (hungry4change.weebly.com) so have a little looksie and if you can think of anything that needs to be changed/should be added etc etc. then please let us know!
We are also hoping to get our video created soon as soon as people start sending in their clips. If you don't know anything about this video, our plan is to create a video, and a damn good video at that, dispelling the myths surrounding eating disorders. So we want you guys to film yourself saying one sentence dispelling a myth surrounding eating disorders. Examples include: "eating disorders are not all about weight", "it's not just middle class teenagers that suffer from eating disorders", "bulimia is not about greed" etc etc. Whatever you want really :) Preferably a pretty plain background, but heck who really cares. Whatever make-up, clothes, hair, hats etc. you want....again we're not picky as we're showing the REAL people that have eating disorders, not the Kate Mosses of the world (no offence Kate Moss)
I think that is all for now.
Hope you have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine.
Sophie
xxx
Just to let you know what's been hip-hap-and-hoppening recently with 'Hungry for Change'... We are currently in the process of organising our photo-shoot so an email will be hitting your inbox's soon! We really hope this will raise awareness for eating disorders by demonstrating that they are not all just about size so that's all really exciting :)
The website is still in progress with Hannah and I working our little socks off to try and make it look as great as possible! It is published (hungry4change.weebly.com) so have a little looksie and if you can think of anything that needs to be changed/should be added etc etc. then please let us know!
We are also hoping to get our video created soon as soon as people start sending in their clips. If you don't know anything about this video, our plan is to create a video, and a damn good video at that, dispelling the myths surrounding eating disorders. So we want you guys to film yourself saying one sentence dispelling a myth surrounding eating disorders. Examples include: "eating disorders are not all about weight", "it's not just middle class teenagers that suffer from eating disorders", "bulimia is not about greed" etc etc. Whatever you want really :) Preferably a pretty plain background, but heck who really cares. Whatever make-up, clothes, hair, hats etc. you want....again we're not picky as we're showing the REAL people that have eating disorders, not the Kate Mosses of the world (no offence Kate Moss)
I think that is all for now.
Hope you have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine.
Sophie
xxx
Friday 3 June 2011
Welcome
Welcome to the 'Hungry for Change' blog :)
Watch this space, we will update periodically with how the project is going, relevant things that are going on in the media, and anything else we think will be relevant.
Peace out sugar mouse.
Watch this space, we will update periodically with how the project is going, relevant things that are going on in the media, and anything else we think will be relevant.
Peace out sugar mouse.
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