Girls Aloud are Britain's most successful girl band - and suddenly the skinniest too. What appalling role models for young fans, says LIZ JONES.
Fearfully thin: Nadine Coyle's transformation has made her legs thinner than any I have recently seen on the Paris catwalk.
“Whiter shade of pale: Nicola Roberts is so thin she looks like a ghost.”
Like most young women these days, she sees her body not as a source of joy, but a battleground. Of course, all five members of the band - who have sold 2.2million albums, with all their singles reaching the top ten - will say they have simply lost the baby fat. I’d say these are body blunders.
“Looking at the photos of the transformation of Girls Aloud from bubbly post-teens with tummies, breasts and hips to twenty somethings with huge, staring eyes and desperately tiny thighs, anyone can see they looked so much prettier before they lost the weight.”
Disappearing act: Girls Aloud's Cheryl Cole attracted attention for her dramatic weight loss after Ashley Cole had reportedly been unfaithful. She looks underweight and zero body fat. This state is as unhealthy as being overweight.
A study in 2007 by the University of California, Los Angeles, found: 'It appears that dieters who manage to sustain a weight loss are the rare exception, rather than the rule. Dieters who gain back more weight than they lost may very well be the norm, rather than an unlucky minority'.
You binge, you starve, you binge again. You want legs like Nadine's? Your metabolism will be shot to pieces.
The only winners in this dieting drama are the weight loss pill manufacturers and owners of low fat foods (relentlessly and mercilessly marketed at the type of teens and women who buy into the whole Girls Aloud high-maintenance ethos) such as Muller Light and Special K..
Role model? Sarah Harding is a shadow of her former self since the huge success of the pop group. Only a model of what an eating disordered looks like.
Victoria Beckham lost her soft curves and chubby cheeks once she became famous. She has admitted to having an eating disorder. Fame seems to equal fear and insecurity about these girls’ self-images.
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Susan Sarandon
At 63, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon is a beauty who looks much younger than her years. How does she do it? One part attitude, two parts healthy habits. But it’s also important to be around people who frame life in a way that’s joyful, curious and compassionate. You get a lot back from being around those types. I think it shows.
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Kelley Raab Mayo has just published a book, Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Exploring Connections, and co-authored an academic paper that shows spiritual practices can help with anxiety.
Photograph by: Wayne Cuddington, The Ottawa Citizen - The trick was to simply "be." Milner believed an emotional stance of "wanting nothing and prepared for anything" was the only way to find true happiness.
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Extreme dieting spreads in Asia
Dieting ads are ubiquitous in Hong Kong, seen everywhere from subway terminals to drugstores. "Sometimes, I'll look at the food and just smell it," Yau, 22, says one morning as she has her breakfast — a skim caramel macchiato from Starbucks. "I think to myself that once I get married and have kids, I'll be able to eat it" because there'll be less pressure to diet.
"Guys here are so small and skinny," she adds. "They need to feel masculine, and they don't if you're bigger than them."
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Kate Bosworth is skinny
‘because of stress’
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Image by Flickr user quinn.anya
Rise in eating disorders in young people in Spain prompts ban of TV advertising of beauty products and treatments
The law was prompted by concern that the ads were fueling a rise in eating disorders in young people.
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler on her hell as an exercise bulimic
Jamie-Lynn Sigler had it all: in 1997, the unknown 16-year-old actress got the role of Meadow Soprano on ‘The Sopranos’. What wasn’t know about her, was that she was secretly consumed by an obsession with her body; one that led her to become an exercise
bulimic,. Up at 3am to exercise for hours before school, this became her hell.. Instead of vomiting, exercise bulimics purge on exercise after eating in order to burn the calories consumed.
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Fashion model Ana Carolina Reston
was one individual who suffered from anorexia and died aged 21. Her death was attributed to generalized infection caused by anorexia. As per the media reports, Ana weighed only 88
pounds when she succumbed to anorexia.
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| Fatty Foods Cocaine-like Addiction
The study found that fattening foods, such as cake, bacon, chocolate and ice cream may actually be addictive.
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Sophia Boyer, 7, left, and Paige Carmichael, 10, add yogurt to the whole grain apple waffle mix at Old Trail School. Students participated in an after school healthy eating program called "Eat a Rainbow, Make Your Body Smile.". (Paul Tople./Akron Beacon Journal)
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Seventeen Magazine Recommends www.whowhatwear.com -Tribal Punk trend: think ethnic prints paired with loads of leather and studs.
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Fashion on the streets
New York
See Streetpeeper.com
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Infertility
Not having enough body fat can halt ovulation; having too much can throw hormones out of whack. The good news is that for many women, fertility returns once they get healthy,
and they don’t suffer any long-term problems, says Walter H. Kaye, M.D., director of the University of California,
San Diego Eating Disorders Unit.
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Television Images
R.A. Botta, writing in his 1999 study, ”Television images and Adolescent Girl’s Body Image Disturbance” in the Journal of Communication, noted that, “Concrete evidence is still necessary…to show that this existence of thin images and ideals has an effect on viewers….At this point, the relationship between television exposure and body image disturbance remains in question.” This view is supported by other researchers including Heidi Posavac, who wrote in her 1998 Sex Roles journal study, “Exposure to Media Images of Female Attractiveness and Concern with Body Weight Among Young Women” that “experimental investigations have not found a link between exposure to the media ideal and increased concern
with weight.”
What do you think?
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Karin Van Der Laag
I would like to praise Karin Van Der Laag who plays Maggie for her brave decision to allow the show to use her condition to
portray an important subject of weight.
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Danielle Steel
Breaking the rules - There are rules for heroines in romantic fiction. They can be cold, they can be damaged, they can be arrogant or insecure. They cannot be fat. Steel missed that memo when she wrote her new novel, "Big Girl." Released last week, it features a protagonist who is not merely a few pounds chubby, but genuinely heavy at a size 16. Victoria Dawson has brains, heart, friends, career and about 40 extra pounds settling around her midsection. She also has a stunning younger sister and shallow parents whose catty comments only send her galloping more desperately toward the Ben & Jerry's.
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First lady Michelle Obama
has always said that her children are her highest priority. Now she has made it clear that that goes for the rest of the nation's kids, too, as she steps up to do battle with a weighty adversary — the epidemic of childhood obesity that is sweeping the nation.
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Ultra Thin Models
Designer Guo Pei’s collection on the catwalk at the finale of the Hong Kong Fashion Extravaganza makes an impact on the audience.
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Seventeen Mag. Showing More Healthy Bodies
Can you keep up with Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian? After you've hit the beach, try accessorizing your suit with summery metallic heels, a sarong, and a statement necklace. Though we recommend adding a top too, to
prevent sunburn.
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Vanessa Hudgens
(American Actress, Singer)
"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something thatsomeone else is telling you to do."
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Body Peace Award: Shakira
Shakira - Yes she taught us all how to shake our hips (and now we can't stop!). She also (in addition to being a global superstar) brought together South American musicians to help influence South American governments to put more money towards early childhood development.
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Think that science and engineering is only for the boys? Think again! Meet Einstein's
Daughters (Katie, Katie, Katy, Caitlin, Maddie, and Mia) an all girls robotics team in San Diego, who are blowing away the stereotypes and finding body peace by making robots!
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Jess Weiner
"Dieting teaches you shame and guilt, instead practice a healthy balance of eating well, sweating well, and resting well." Jess Weiner
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2-year-old in China tips the scales at 90 lbs.
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