hOw ThIn Is ToO tHiN??????

For this image I was hoping to portray a message. 

A very important issue not only to me but to society these days is body image. Girls these days have a distorted way of looking at their bodies because of what the media portrays. How thin is too thin? How little is too little? The measures taken these days to portray a thin slender figure have gotten out of control. Eating disorders are around every corner and these days as horrible as this may sound you can't meet a teenage girl that hasn't dealt with some sort of eating issue. 

Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 and is still known as a sex symbol and iconic figure. These days the average model is a size 00. How far are women going to go? And when is this madness going to stop? Healthy. It seems that we have lost sight of what that word means in exchange for a thin waste and size 0. 

As cheesy as this sounds I believe in health. Eat right and exercise. Starving yourself and over working your body isn't healthy and has become a day in the life of a teenage/young woman these days. 

Personally it makes me sad. Women are choosing to makes themselves miserable for what? Some say it is because it is what men want these days or because this is what the media portrays as beautiful. While the issue has created some worldwide attention there needs to be more because rather than making a difference for the better it is making a difference for the worse. More and more women are falling victim to this disease. 

Awareness needs to be spread because before you know it there aren't going to be any more women to protect from this awful ailment.