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October 27, 2006 |
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Skinny
FOUND by Alicia Phillips
in Washington, DC
I found it on the floor in a stall in a public girls restroom at the mall.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I worry for the girl who left that magazine picture behind
That is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long while. But I guess the day is still early.
I think this was left for someone else to find. Most likely by someone who is in touch with reality and wanted to share it.
You're not the Alicia Phillips from Northern Idaho are you...
No I'm not. I live in michigan.
There are reasons we have 8yr olds in this country with severe eating disorders.
This actually made me feel good in a way. At least the person who created it was in touch with reality. It's okay to be a size 10 or 12, your level of health is what matters!
This looks like something left behind by someone who visits Post Secret.
It is true, though. They photoshop the models to make them look better, ie. thinner. The models themselves don't even look like that!
Hey, I am that skinny! Poor girls though, I think they'd hate their bodies anyways, if your skinny you worry that you are rippled like a boy. If you're fat, you want to be skinny.
I'm so sick of people criticizing skinny people. Considering the stats are up to 70% of the pop being overweight, I'm proud to be skinny. Eat to live, not live to eat. We're killing ourselves with food.
"if your skinny you worry that you are rippled like a boy"
Hey, we're not all rippled!
:: plays with rolls ::
I found this upsetting, too. It's the crossed out faces. I fear whoever left this is frustrated with themselves (I've been there). But why cross out poor Cameron's face?
Is there a signifigance to it being found in a bathroom? Maybe she has an eating disorder...
=(
I will never be that thin either.
And you should never want to.
"I found this upsetting, too. It's the crossed out faces. I fear whoever left this is frustrated with themselves (I've been there)."
I agree with you.
This upsets me because I can relate to it a lot.
I have things that look exactly like this in a drawer in my room from a while ago.
I hope the girl who made this gets help.
JJ - i partially agree with you. I think most people are more fed up with america's obsession to be skinny, usually by unhealthy means. To be healthy and possibly thin is very rare, and this is what we should shoot for.
I'm pretty sure whoever left that behind has an eating disorder and it was 'thinspiration'
What does it say about me that I immediately saw "Cameron Diaz flashes a little skin" but didn't notice the crossed out faces or the handwriting until someone pointed them out in the comments. I embarrass myself. :-(
What I hate is this: people think that being super skinny is better than being overwieght. I am actually UNDERWEIGHT and I get teased a lot too, people!!!!
SAD!
I'd just like to say...I DESPISE it when when people say "I'm so sick of people criticizing skinny people". First of all, I think thats rather insensitive, considering that you already have less to be worried about than an overweight person, and its rather rude for YOU to say "Look at me, I'm victimized!" Second, people don't criticize skinny people. They criticize the unrealistically idealistic standards of skinny that seem to constitute beauty in our society
Both overly skinny and overweight people face obstacles
allie in stp.
you're wrong.
people do criticize skinny people.
This is really, really sad. It's crumpled up like maybe it was in someone's pocket and fell out; or someone crunched it into a ball and threw it on the floor. I wonder if it belonged to a girl who idolized supermodels and kept all of those magazines for teens - then some bully saw this and meanly stole one of her magazines and wrote in it? Or she herself is bulimic and wrote it as a kind of sick motivation to lose weight.
Amanda in Michigan: why should i not want to? somewhere inside, i will always want to, no matter what people say.
I agree with Darcy
its etched into my mind
it may be wrong to want to look like that,
but i still do.
Was this left by someone who wrote it as a reminder to themselves? Could be why it was found in a bathroom.
It's really depressing. But every girl has been there, even super skinny girls from time to time feel this way.
Butttttttt, it doesnt mean its healthy lol
that girl clearly has an eating disorder, anyone whos been there before will be able to recognize that. So to all the girls here who are trying to say people are "critisizing skinny people" ... get a brain. theres nothing wrong with being skinny. there is DEFINATELY something wrong with having an eating disorder. if you disagree, maybe you should get help.
There are activist groups like The Body Project that form and meet in colleges to help young women understand how thinness works as a marketing tool, to help them shed warped body images and to lower eating disorder risks by shedding light on the thin ideal. The members of such groups are encouraged to practice something called body activism which includes leaving notes in bathrooms for other women to find. These notes say things like "you are beautiful" or make proclamations rejecting the thin ideal. Perhaps this is an example of body activism, in this case a rejection of thinness. If you intend a message for a female audience, a women's restroom is a pretty good forum. Looks like it's had some wear though; maybe it was there for a long time or maybe it was intended solely for its creator - from a body image workshop maybe? - and was dropped mistakenly.
Here's the story my brain spun as soon as I saw the find and read the caption: a few girls were shopping together and when one was using the restroom the others slid this under the door of her stall.
I'm sure I'm projecting; I have tons of experience with "mean girls" and no experience with an eating disorder.
I'm skinny and rippled like a boy... and I like it.
It helps with being butch. girls like it. :)
I've noticed when it comes to weight, a lot of people view it from only one side. Someone mentioned fat people have it worse than really skinny people. I don't think this is necessarily the case. At least a fat person has curves--tits, hips, and ass. They at least have their femininity, unlike skinny women who are made to feel like walking AIDS victims or young boys. In addition to this, if being rail thin and without curves is so desirable, why is it every site I have gone to has featured pictures of skinny people and celebrities, where people make some of the cruelest comments about them being too thin. And if that's not enough, just look at the women who are considered sex symbols: Are they rail thin and without any shape? I think not. If skinny and shapeless was the beauty ideal, magazines like Playboy would be out of business and the obesity epidemic would be going down, not up. Not only this, but every woman would hate having hips, women would get breast reductions instead of implants....
I'm a skinny woman, at the age of 23, I have never weighed more than 8 stone. I eat like a horse (I just had three rounds of cheese on toast and a half can of beans for breakfast, I mean I LOVE food, and I haven't been sick since I was travel sick 14 years ago. Some people are naturally skinny, in the same way some people naturally aren't. I like my figure in that I can eat what I want and wear nice clothes, but I wish I was bigger to cover my pointy hip bones, and shut people up who assume that I have an eating disorder.
That said, I think this girl has serious food issues, it looks like she carries photos like this for "motivation" in her eating disorder, by looking at things like this, it makes the barfing in public restrooms that much more "deserved". I wish we could all just be happy and healthy, but with society and the media pushing idealism down our hroats, this will never happen.
... i think Im going to go to lunch today.
Is the girl on the right Mischa Barton or Calista Flockhart? Has anyone seen pictures of Victoria Beckham lately?
http://tinyurl.com/skinnyspice
Wow- gorgeous woman, gorgeous hubby... WHAT is she doing?! (the pic is from Sept of '08.. maybe she's put some back on. I hope so.)
I used to have a body-building, 1% bodyfat obsessed boyfriend. (he was gorgeous and perfect in nearly every way) He cautioned me that if I gained any weight, I was "out." (nice, sensitive guy) I was young and impressionable (not to mention madly in that blinding love that only 18 year old girls can experience), so I started "dieting".. and weighed 97 pounds when I was checked into the hospital. What was I thinking?! That I had to get skinnier and skinnier to achieve "perfection," and hold onto Mr. Gorgeous forever and ever. (yeah. Like that happened.) Some people are naturally thin. I was not.
http://tinyurl.com/annierexarticle
I can't imagine what kind of health issues the young girls now practicing this ultimate thinness are going to face as they age. I fear for them.
What if I'm already that skinny?
Yes, the other one is Mischa Barton.
I remember having that picture of her hung in my room years ago and thinking the same thing.....
Inside me is a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.
I'm taking a wild guess, but i have a feeling that the majority of the comments posted on here are by women. What can be said about that?
There's nothing wrong with being skinny.
You can't see her ribs. Her bones aren't jutting out. She has curves. She is in proportion to her size.
There is a reason why people are victimised for being "too skinny".
I wish I could put on weight. I love curves. But it sickens me to see a normal-weighted person being called skinny, and asked if they have an eating disorder.