Blog by Dina Pugliese, Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Breaking news…..
"Beyonce caught with a her 'gut' hanging out after eating at a fancy restaurant!"
"J Lo spotted with grey roots OUT IN PUBLIC!"
"Uma's got cellulite!"
"Nicole Richie, down to 83 pounds!"
Admit it - these headlines and photos have you picking up extra copies of the goss zines while waiting in line at the check-out counter.
Sure we all love learning that these beautiful women are human and have flaws but at what cost?
Talk to any fourth grader and you'll be shocked - little girls who should be carefree are burdened with big girl problems - stressing over hair highlights and flat tummies and fat content!
I know this one tween who only eats sushi for fear of getting fat and she is RAIL thin.
I don't know about you, but I was far too consumed with deciding on whether to blow my allowance on TWIX or MARS bars at that age.
Now, one BLOG certainly isn't going to the change the world any but I need to vent.
Talk to your neices, little sisters and neighbours and when you find them fawning over your skinny jeans and lip-plumping gloss, remind them that inner beauty really IS more important and bust out a skipping rope to distract them….do whatever you can to influence their impressionable young minds and start undoing the damage being done by our celeb-obsessed culture.
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