Attaining and maintaining weights that were severely under the recommended weight and height chart certainly isn't something that is all the fashion and beauty industry's fault, but it certainly has added fuel to the fire for the perfectionist personality types that tend to take these types of ideals to extremes and resort to extreme measures to conform to this supposed "ideal".

Some psychologists argue that women who tend to starve themselves and succumb to eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and body dysmorphic disorder would have had these torturous diseases whether the fashion industry promoted thinness as fashionable and sexy or not, but I disagree. I think that the fashion industry has greatly contributed to this false ideal.

I'm all for eating healthy and maintaining an active lifestyle, but there comes a point when this just becomes a sick obsession where the victim feels they have to resort to starvation and extreme measures to get unnaturally thin for their body frame.

I'm glad, along with countless other normal sized women (I'm a healthy build and size, nothing too skinny), that there are measures being taken to help end this trend of extremity and save women and especially younger girls from a lifetime of low self worth and esteem, and torturing themselves to stay too thin.

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