So, in Yahoo! News, it shows Jim Carrey gaining 50 pounds to play Curly in the "Three Stooges" movie. In my opinion, I think that the showing of gain weight and loss in the media has become so out of hand. I don't think it is good to portray how easy it is to change your self image. I'm a fashion merchandising major, and we talk about body types a lot. You are born with a body type, and you aren't supposed to be able to change it. People don't realize that the Ectomorph and Endomorphic body types are completely different, and that you don't choose if you are muscley or if you are rail thin. It's crazy to hear statistics about 8 year old girls wondering about their body image. I bet you didn't know that 50% of 10 year old girls are on diets. The saddest part about this is that sometimes it's not the children, it's the parents! I remember when I was younger that my sister was always a little on the chubbier side, and she did love to eat. They were always worried about cutting her back on food or putting her on a diet. As she grew up, though she grew taller and she still has a muscle build, but she's gorgeous and she isn't rail thin. I just wish that sometimes people would look passed the whole body image thing, and I wish that stars would help people to realize that not only is it a hard task to gain and lose all of that weight, but to promote that it's NOT HEALTHY!!
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