Today I was at the supermarket and I saw something that really made me sad. There was a little girl who could not possibly have been over the age of 10, shopping with her mother. She was so incredibly thin I had to double take, it wasn’t the regular little girl thinness..she looked anorexic. I am going to even go as far as to say she was anorexic, I know a lot of little girls can just be naturally very thin but it was what she did next that made me more certain that something was wrong. Her mother was further down the isle putting food into the trolley while the little girl picked up items of food and read the nutritional information. She would pick up an item, turn it to see the nutritional information, examine it and put it back. She did this to a few different items while I was watching her.

I know some people may be upset that I am calling out a little girl as being anorexic but if you were there and saw how thin she was and saw the way she examined the food labels, most of you would side with me. Her mum was oblivious to her behavior. Whether this little girl had a problem or not, that’s not the issue. The reason I write this is sometimes we need to just take a step back and look at what the media is really doing to society.

There is even a documentary about a girl called Dana who suffers from anorexia. I watched it on youtube. She’s 8 years old! When will it be acceptable to be a regular size? Why is there so much pressure to be thin? Every guy who I’ve spoken to about the size 0 issue has said that they prefer women with curves.

Anyway I guess we can all take away from this. Mothers, watch your daughters, if you think you have a weight problem then try not to talk about it in front of your daughter. In my opinion we could all try and be realistic about weight. I know now that I will look at magazines in a new light. Instead of seeing a thin pretty model and thinking, I wish I had her body. I’m now going to take a step back and think about what that pretty model had to go through to get to that weight and understand that she’s genetically different to me. I’m not a 6 foot model, I’m a regular 5″1 girl! My metabolism isn’t freakishly fast, my legs aren’t long. It’s who I am and I am going to try my best to get the body that makes me happy and suites my frame.

Yep that’s just my little rant/words of wisdom for the day. If you want to watch the documentary on youtube here is the link.

Ps: You’re beautiful and perfect, never forget that!