This article, and many like it, contribute to eating disorders and unrealistic beauty standards. This article contains a list of celebrities that have gone through major weight loss but it doesn’t approach sharing this information in a kind way. In each paragraph about the celebrities it says things like “so and so has gained weight over the years but they just lost an astonishing amount of weight and are now happier than ever” and “this celebrity was on a previously successful tv show and is often noticed but it’s not hard to notice someone who’s 300 pounds” and “Jennifer Hudson didn’t win American Idol but she did win at life when she started training to lose weight”. This article praises calorie counting and puts forth the idea that skinny or losing weight means you’re pretty and will be happy and successful. These magazines include celebrities that young girls, including myself, adore and naturally we want to read everything that has to do with that person; we’re drawn to read articles about the celebrities we love and look up to. I’ve been recovering from an eating disorder in the last year and I’ve been learning that weight is different for every person and it doesn’t define who we are or how happy we can be. If I didn’t already know this I would’ve read this article and believed that skinny equals happy and that I’d have to change myself to be happy just like my favourite celebrities, which is how I developed an eating disorder in the first place. These articles just aren’t necessary because they make us overthink so much about our own bodies and we start to think that weight and looks matter more than anything else, which just isn’t true. It’s one component in your life, not the deciding factor on whether you’ll be happy or not. Taking down one article won’t change the world but maybe it will turn heads and lead to the taking down of other similar articles that all promote damaging ideals of what it means to be beautiful.