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Women's Magazines - Good or Gossip?

Can you remember the last time you read a woman's magazine? Did you still feel good about yourself by the time you reached the back cover?

Now I'm not talking about a food and home magazine, or a wellbeing-focused publication, but the glossy weeklies and monthlies that focus on diet, exercise, weight loss, cosmetics, gossip, and fashion.

Chances are that you felt worse about yourself at the end of the magazine than you did when you started reading it; that you'd decided to try the new diet; and that you were at least keeping an eye out for a new cream or potion to help you fix your problems.

Women's bodies, and parts of bodies, are used to sell everything from computers to cars to builders. The bodies displayed have been younger and thinner over the last 30 years. It's rare that a magazine doesn't have a regular makeover feature, encouraging women to actively pursue the "ideal" of the young, airbrushed, models in the glossy ads that actually pay for the magazine.

The models of course are airbrushed, and despite the Australian Federal Government's decree in 2008 that magazines must disclose when images are digitally enhanced, I haven't been struck with any great awareness of that disclosure. I rarely read these magazine now though, unless I notice a particularly outrageous headline that I feel compelled to blog about.

As a younger woman I did read the women's mags, alongside my computing and natural health ones; reading was almost expected on the train commute to work.

In those years, and for many years, I was very focussed on my body's flaws and the magazines absolutely fed that insecurity. That cult of youth is no accident, and nor is the cult of thinness. Both are entirely economic, driven by the advertising of products that are unlikely to deliver the look they advertise anyway.

Last year I read that a popular cosmetic company were being sued by an advertising regulator because they did not disclose that their photographed model, promoting a mascara, was wearing false eyelashes. The advertisement therefore was misleading because it suggested the product could produce eyelashes like those shown in the photograph. The company's defense was that "women know the models wear false eyelashes".

I was highly amused when I read that, because, actually, I didn't know. I assumed the company chose models for their luscious lashes, the same way they choose stocking models for their lovely legs and hand models for their lovely long fingers and perfect nails.

And only in recent years have we become aware that actors have body doubles for their movies, and often have several: one with a perfect bottom, one with perfect breasts, one with gorgeous ankles. For years it was a secret that even our most gorgeous women - and men - are composites of several people.

Women who feel insecure about their bodies are more likely to buy beauty products, new clothes, and diet pills, potions, lotions, and programs. The diet industry is worth around $4 billion a year in Australia alone, and they are selling temporary weight loss!

Meanwhile research tells us that exposure to images of thin, young, air-brushed female bodies is linked to depression, loss of self-esteem and the development of unhealthy eating habits in women and girls. Since the cult of thinness really kicked off in the 1960s, women around the planet have been starving themselves into ill health, both physical and mental, to achieve some of the perfection which will, the magazines says, bring us ultimate happiness.

In Australia in 2008, a dozen children under the age of five were treated for anorexia. Where did children so young learn to restrict their eating? And why?

Sadly, mothers carry a good share of the responsibility. Our children don't know that we are lumpy, less than perfect, and "need to get into shape", they simply love their mothers. And when that mother is clearly restricting her eating and critically analyzing her body, the children will naturally copy those behaviors.

If it seems an aberration that a child so young would restrict their eating, consider this: - in the 2006 National Survey of Young Australians, body image was the third most pressing issue, behind family conflict and worries over alcohol and drugs. But in 2007 32.3% of respondents put body image in their top three, ahead of family conflict and coping with stress - The Australian Medical Association says stick-thin models contribute to the problem because they have a strong influence on body image and self-esteem among teenagers - Around two-thirds of new cases of eating disorders arise in women who have dieted moderately - Recent research revealed that 1 in 5 12-year-old girls regularly fasted and vomited to lose weight - One in four Australian girls wants to get plastic surgery.

Eating disorders are currently classified as a mental health disorder, and of all the mental health disorders more people die from anorexia than any other disorder. Anorexia sufferers are more than five times as likely to die as other people in their age group; it is a fatal illness and it's killing the best and brightest of our young women.

And girls don't just grow out of anorexia; they mature into women who have a life-long conflict with the nagging voice of anorexia telling them to not eat or they will be imperfect and fat. Women with anorexia are more than 12 times as likely to die as other women of the same age.

The other well-known eating disorder is bulimia, suffered by about 5% of all women, some studies say 10%. Mostly worryingly, studies suggest that only a small percentage of sufferers are ever treated; it is the great hidden cost of being thin and "hot".

My biggest concern with the images of women and their interests that these magazines depict though, is that they present just one way of being female: all that matters is looking perfect. Every woman I know has so many layers to her being and life that it is frankly insulting that women are depicted the way they are in the magazines.

The Australian Federal Government is establishing a body image advisory committee to try to get some control over the massively destructive messages we women take on. The Government's actions aside, I believe that we need to see cultural change for the sake of the mental and physical health of our children. And that change needs to come from within the family. And the person at the centre of the family is usually mom.

I'd suggest step one would be to stop buying the magazines. Just stop. They're full of exaggerations and half-truths and plain nasty gossip about people we don't even know, and which causes those people pain. If your child, sister, brother or parent was one of those people, how would you feel about strangers reading those lies and half truths, examining every aspect of his or her life, making themselves feel better at your loved ones' expense? If you read the magazines, you're funding the people who make up those lies, cause that pain. You can stop; your little contribution does count. The gossipy stories only exist anyway to fill out the space between the advertisements that contribute to our societal anorexic thinking.

If you really want magazines because you enjoy the light read (and we all need that relaxation once in a while), look around, make a different choice. Many women are sick of the distortions, and they are behind new magazines appearing on the newsagents' shelves, with content that appeals to the many facets of a woman's life. If you enjoy reading magazines - and there is a real time-out quality about reading one - take a few minutes to look at some of the new titles, you might find something that really speaks to you.

Balance is badly, madly needed, and the ones to bring it, are we women.

About the Author

Are you one of the millions of women who look in the mirror and hate what they see? You're not alone and it's not your fault! You can change it, in just five minutes a day, for free! Sandy Kumskov is a body image coach who helps women just like you. To find out more visit http://howtoloveyourbody.com/sya .

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