Over the years, media has become the source of body image guidelines
in the society especially for women. From watching the television,
reading the magazines, browsing the internet, and also most shockingly
from inside the society itself, women are bombarded with perfection
images, which can be lethal when the demands are too high for them to
reach.The ideal body visualized through the flawless body of models and celebrities encourages women of all races and ages to have their ‘perfect body’. ‘Size zero’ or under is the ultimate goal for women to be recognized as pretty, fashionable and trendy.
‘Thinspiration’ and ‘Pro Ana’
In order for girls to achieve such size, not a few tried an extreme way of losing weights. The ambition leads to frustration and eating disorder cases like anorexia, bulimia and others begin to increase. As the society starts to gain consciousness of the problem, the condition also worsen.
Thinspiration or thinspo – a term used to call images and video montages of women, mostly are celebrities, who have slim to extra thin body –becomes dangerously popular among girls. Many of them celebrate being anorexic, and it is viewed as a trendy lifestyle.
Then ‘Pro Ana’ begins to arise. ‘Pro Ana’ is a term used as an expression to support a person with Anorexia Nervosa eating disorder. ‘Pro Ana’ can be divided by the ones who provide a positive, non-judgmental environment for the anorexics, and the ones who encourage anorexic condition as a lifestyle or in the other words, made it worse.
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