The Media and EDs

I think the media and EDs go hand in hand. Girls are constantly blasted with images of stick skinny models and told that if you don't look like this then you aren't beautiful. The average woman is not a size 0, she's actually a size 16.

Girls are developing EDs at younger ages then ever before. I heard a four year old girl tell another girl at a birthday party that she could not eat the cake because it would make her fat.

I was just watching Family Guy with my boyfriend, and they made sooo many bulimic jokes. My boyfriend thought they were hilarious. I was horrified. I don't care that they were making fun of EDs, it just startled me how the show seemed to normalize EDs. It also went as far as to say that the bulimic girl's boyfriend did not care that she had an ED because it was making her body look hot.

ED awareness needs to be spread to younger girls so that future EDs can be avoided. With knowledge of what an ED is, and how it can disrupt your life, less girls and boys will go through the pain of having an ED.