is very slender,but when you are that thin, you are thought to be sick. An Additional role model that has hadweight issues is Oprah Winfrey. She has lost weight and gained weight many times, and everytime someone has something mean to say about it. She cannot win either way (Berg n. pag.). The rising star, Calista Flockhart, otherwise known as Ally McBeal, has had many problems withthe media thinking that she is anorexic, although; she insists that she never denies herself food. The harassment started with her appearance at the Emmy Awards. She wore a sheath,open-backed dress that left little to the imagination. That left the media asking: is she too skinnyor is she anorexic? To see how the media torture her about her size, we can look to Jay Leno. On The Tonight Show. Leno said that the typical McBeal meal consisted of three peas and a limabean. This indicates even being the ideal thinness can be unfavorable (Duffy 71-72).Once women enter college they have entered the most high risk time of their lives foracquiring an eating disorder. They have dealt with it all their lives, but now that they are awayfrom home it becomes more difficult to bear. The media also plays a part in their struggles whichis worse than all the other women, because the stress of leaving home makes them even moresusceptible to the medias influence. Jennifer Biely, EDAPs director says, College women areaway from their families, and theres tremendous pressure to find their way in the world. Food isone thing they can control (Out 52-72). It is tough to gain awareness of these diseases oncollege campuses, because so much time is spent on rape, alcohol, and drug awareness. They donot want to believe that this is the immense problem that it really is. As colleges are discoveringthat not dealing with the issue is far more costly than intervening before the girls have serioushealth problems, people are hopeful that awareness of this developing problem...
