Hi, everyone! I had thought a great start to the year. Today, I am going to talk about the reason up rule in the media because of Jennifer Hawkins posing, almost stock as in the cover of Marie Claire in an effort to promote a healthy body image.
Because Jennifer is a model, it seems to about said quite a few women because they feel that she is not ordained a real woman. I think it’s fabulous that Jennifer is going out there to promote such necessary initiative. I can see their point of view but I think for once we need to realize that these models are also real women. They have real feelings. They have real insecurities and I have met many models off the living in the states, in New York, one of my girl friends quite fairly models and she would tell me also about an enormous amount of insecurity that these women have to do with body image and self-esteem.
So, we’re all in this together. I think we need to start supporting one another and celebrating each other rather than knocking each other down because one woman is more beautiful and she’s a model why she should promoting body image. I think it’s really kind of a futile kind of argument to be having.
I think what we really do need to look at here, the most important point that I want to make in this video is that when you rely in outside sources and you are having a fight with the media or the fashion industry to change suit, to embrace women of all shapes and sizes and it’s starting to happen, look they are setting to use models in a lot of different magazines were saying, you know more variety of shapes and sizes but if we are waiting for these outside people to shift and change, I think we can then set up. You know we can kind of becoming like victims if we set ourselves up and instead of vicious fight with this big conglomerate who really are about selling product and selling magazines and selling TV shows and all that kind of thing.
So what I suggest is that we start deeming ourselves beautiful right now, have a depth deeper connection with yourself, start to value yourself as a beautiful woman and start waiting for you know the media to change, for the magazines to change, for the fashion industry to change.
I’ve decided that I am beautiful right now. I don’t need my boyfriend, my girlfriend or anyone to actually tell me that. I believe that I am regardless of whether I am size 8 either size 14. I want to honor myself. I want to self nurture myself and that has brought me a lot of pace. I like the fashion industry. I love fashion because I think it’s a creative expression. They do use anorexic models half the time or models that are very, very thin and many of them are not healthy. Many of them, they suffer from eating disorders. We know that.
Let’s stop fighting the fight. Let’s send love to those women and come back to ourselves and set up a community of friends and girl friends and mothers and daughters where we support one another to live with more self-esteem and more body confidence now and we can do that by just showering ourselves with love, supporting our girl friends, telling them that they’re loved, that affirmation is fantastic but I think of way expecting the affirmation from the media or the fashion industry, we just become victims and set ourselves up for a lot of disappointment.
So let’s fight the fight in a more of a healthy way by supporting one another. I’d love to hear your thoughts. You have been watching Ingrid Arna at Body Love. Please write in to me at ingrid@mybodylove.com or make a post and comment here and I look forward to hearing from you.
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