How THIN do you want to get?

If you know this kid, whose name is Joyce, you should know what she has been going through. Massive pressure has been pushing her to lose weight, get thin, look good etc., whereas the majority of these pressures come from the mass media.

Upon the cynical judgements and skeptical monitorings; sadly, she is born to a female celebrity, Lydia Shum, who is known to be “fat & joyous”. While Lydia’s health is deteriorating due to her fatness, we could also see the urge for her daughter to go the other end in light of these factors that justify the need to be skinny.

Her confidence was boosted when she first succeeded after the first phase of dieting in 2004. As she claims to the media that, she LOVES to see her bones under the flesh because she had never experienced it as a kid.

In my eyes, Joyce is a little over the boundary when compared with our fragile, Asian (Hong Kong) counterparts. But I assume that her foot could be right inside the BMI margin of her height, or close to that. However, it looks like negative comments still come all the way to her face because of various reasons, and many of them has to do with her background and also her look.

It looks like it is a right thing for women nowadays to pay grands to lose weight, look good, trimming this and that, or even mold their faces. The media has played a major role in legitimizing all these needs but I would talk about this issue later. Right now I would just like to focus on the impact of weight-losing since most of us have overlooked it on ones psychology, mainly on women.

A documentary worth watching, here is the promo:

For the whole film, thanks to the good of YouTube. Someone has archived it and put all of them on the site in a series of 11 cuts.

Anorexia and Bulimia have been affecting a great deal of women even if we don’t quite notice it. I personally had a Hong Kong friend of my age (back then she was merely 19), who had developed bulimia, which is categorized by binge eating and vomiting. The disorder is also known to have stormed the former Princess D., who was courage enough to admit it. Also, Karen Carpenter of The Carpenters who died of Anorexia in the early 80s.

WE ARE OBSESSED WITH THINNESS. But instead of trying to change the mainstream culture, I think we have to get equipped in dealing with the issue. DO NOT THINK THAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A “SLEEPING GIANT “IN HER.

Please also refer to mamaVISION.com and laurengreenfield.com for related readings.

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