The size zero debate has been raging on for years now, attracting the attention of fashion magazines, models, designers and even people such as doctors and politicians. It is a debate that is spread world wide about people, mainly women, who either don't eat or eat very little. As a result they become extremely skinny and can become very ill. Mostly young girls do this because of self confidence issues that they get from photos of skinny women in the media in things such as magazines, tv adverts and so on. Because of this many young girls have eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia. However, some people are wrongly placed in this group through stereotyping. For example, most people if they saw a young girl of an extremely small size would most probably stereotype her as having some sort of eating disorder when in actual fact she could me skinny due to genetic or her metabolism.
In my opinion I think people can easily be roped into being branded in the size zero debate and it attracts a lot of labels for people. On the other hand, I believe that the debate is for a good cause as it helps many people over come self confidence issues.70% of 14-18 year old girls have body confidence issues and hospital admission rose 17% in the UK last year, with children and young people accounting for most of the admission. Many well known magazines and clothing companies now require models to be a size 8 or usually less. This then makes an impression on young people, telling them that they should look like this. I think that this is inaccurately represented as the models that look like this are photo shopped and are therefore portraying a false image to the public. A campaign against size 0 was started by Katie Green titled 'say no to size 0' and has set a goal to reach 20,000 signatures on their petition and it is planned to be presented to the parliament and the prime minister.
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