Everyone (hopefully) by now should know not to take magazine models seriously.  The word “photoshopped” often comes to mind when being bombarded by ads featuring women and men with ridiculous features.  This article by Back in Skinny Jeans reinforces the impact this is having on young women, who are putting their health at stake in order to attain the unattainable.

Similarly, trends of anorexia and bulimia are for the first time gaining national attention in Asia–where up until a couple decades ago, have been unheard of.  Western models are often used in advertising in Japan, so methinks there is a connection between spiked trends of bleaching hair and dieting among the Japanese and the advertisements featuring Caucasian women whose looks are impossible to imitate–even among Caucasians.  It almost makes you feel for the models, whose entire life profession revolves around their looks, which apparently aren’t good enough anymore.

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