Weighing up the issues

The reoccurring trends in the debate of using "real models" have always sparked much controversy throughout the fashion world and has also become a repeat theme for women's magazines when they grow weary of taunting famous people for any imperfections they may have. The magazines sudden ethical argument are that models are not "realistic" and normal women cannot relate to them seems to become more and more prevalent. I agree that unhealthily underweight models are certainly not good role models to girls and are completely unrealistic. However, I also found their sudden concern over accepting people for who they are to be disgustingly ironic due to the fact that these are the same  magazines that pad their dull as dishwater Jeremy Kyle reject stories with "scandalous" pictures of stars that they have either deemed too fat or too thin and sometimes to shake things up add in the cellulite factor. On top of this they add smug and catty slogans to these expose pictures. Sure they probably argue that they are reassuring women that even stars are human, but in reality are they not just creating new problems to worry about?

So called fighters for real women

How can the fashion world be expected to show what is dubbed real women when all these women's magazines do is critique and almost take glee in pointing out any little imperfection those in the lime light have?My issue is that  these magazines have been developing unhealthy obsessions with weight within the masses. Their quotes such as "real women have curves" are putting down women who have naturally boyish or athletic figures. So if they don't have what is deemed the right feminine form are they not real women? what are they then, Unicorns? Sometimes even in the same magazine they will push the newest super effective diet techniques that promise to "shed that ugly flab". Again, if a woman is over a certain weight are they ugly? Why can't they be attractive? These magazines are not selling stories anymore but fear. Fear that if one does not fit into what the media deem perfect at that point in time that they are just not good enough. It truly disgusts me. They cannot even seem to make up their mind as to what in their opinion  is the epitome of perfection, they constantly change it just like fashion trends. It seems the ideal body form correlates with which ever new female star is the darling of the press at that moment. This puts us plebs under too much pressure.

Peddlers of fear. 

In my opinion a real woman is not a certain size or shape. She is happy and confident in her own body. She does not bend to conformity or pressure. She is sure of who she is and does not care of what anyone thinks of her. That is the difference between being a woman and a girl, of being a real woman and not just a fad.