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My Mad Fat Diary

this show is all about a girl who tries to cope with her insecurities about her body. this program shows how hard it is for people who have insecurities about themselves to cope with life. in this program the girl with the issues is called 'Rae', she is mentally unstable because of her issues. The media represents thin people as beautiful. therefore, people who are not thin believe that they are not beautiful. the girl (rae) is also only 17, this just shows the influence that the media has on young people.

It also makes it very clear why girls have certain eating disorders, reported eating disorders have increased dramatically since the 1930's onwards and they only seem to be going up. psychological researchers have deemed the media to be almost totally responsible for the increase of eating disorders, some would say that this is too deterministic. However, there is plenty of evidence as of why this might be true, such as leading celebrities being skinny, super models and fashion magazines having nothing to do with anyone but 'size 0' models.