Admonition on girls dying to stay thin…

Notwithstanding the body-image pathology most women suffer, I know a few who are not only immune but also share my aversion to the skinny bitches society would have us believe are the paragons of female beauty. Therefore, when one of them sent this picture of Nicole Ritchie (right - reportedly taken just days ago), I thought immediately that - in the continuing series of publicity-seeking antics between the two simpletons of The Simple Life - Nicole has finally managed to upstage Paris Hilton.

Then, a serious thought came to mind:

Parents of teenage girls who are clueless about celebrities like Keira Knightly, Lindsay Lohan and Miss Ritchie here might as well be parents who are blissfully ignorant about drugs like drugs ecstasy, rohypnol and cocaine. Because the negative influence these “Stupid girls” have on impressionable teenagers is just as pernicious as the damaging effect these drugs have on their lives.

After all, these anorexic-looking celebrities are the ones setting the standards of beauty (and acceptable behavior) that young girls are desperately trying to emulate.

However, we do not have to wait for confessional memoirs by afflicted beauties like Ritchie to find out that the (dark) beauty secret these role models rely on has more to do with anorexia nervosa than nutrition or exercise. In fact, click here to read how the actress who played superhero Lara Croft vomited 30 times a day to "stay in shape". (Incidentally, I wonder how many women felt betrayed by Jane Fonda for waiting until her regime of cigarettes, coke (not cola) and cosmetic surgeries could no longer enable her vanity to reveal her bulimic beauty tips - in her bestselling memoir....)

And, nor should we wait for one of them to end up dead like Karen Carpenter (or looking like the women seen here in this Lilith Gallery of dying beauties) to begin warning young girls about this health hazard as much as we warn them about drugs.

NOTE: Even though I’ve been on the anti-skinny crusade since my days as a certified fitness trainer almost 20 years ago, I appreciate that most parents couldn’t care any less what I think about which celebrities their little girls want to look like. That’s why I wrote this article several months ago welcoming Harry Potter author J K Rowling as a far more persuasive preacher to help save the bodies of these young girls.


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