Another Barbie to the Collection.

     Barbie has been around forever, since 1959 to be precise. So you might ask yourself: why are people now so obsessed with being "perfect"? The rate for eating disorders are much greater than they were 10 years ago. In "Helping Girls with Body Image", by Elizabeth Heubeck, the author discusses the problem about helping girls with their image and self esteem since the media is trashing their minds with how they should "really" look like. With technology advancing more and more every single day, a lot more people, specially girls, are exposed to thin size 0 models all over the media."Bombarded with countless media images of thin female models and actresses who look beautiful by modern American standards and appear happy, many girls -- including the youngest and most impressionable -- view them as role models."

      But this is much greater than a simple obsession. It can turn out deadly, due to the risks of adapting an eating disorder. Elissa Gittes, MD, a pediatrician in the division of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh explains how a parent can get involved before it is too late. According to WedMD, the average teenage girl gets a daily exposure of 180 minutes compared to only 10 minutes of parental interaction. Because no parent, specially a mother, would enjoy seeing their daughter go through something as horrific as an eating disorder just to please the demands of others.

     Even as a size 0 model myself, I think society as long with the media is lacking variety. I don't think girls should be asked to be 5'8 and weigh 100 pounds in order to have the opportunity to serve as the image to a brand. Because there is so much more to a person than their physical appearance, which is what agencies should look for: not another Barbie.

 http://www.webmd.com/beauty/style/helping-girls-with-body-image