Why do girls want to be so skinny?

Question

like teen girls i see it all the time they want to look like this

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a170/DreaWd/Blog%2008/anorexic.jpg witch is way to skinny why do people want to be this skinny i mean what wrong with little meat no one likes bones i dont get it all my friends want to look like this like be 90 pounds i dont get it

Answer 1

i think people want what they can't have..

skinny/underweight people want to gain "meat" for a fuller figure and curvy people want to lose weight and look more like a model..

or maybe... society has set standards and everyone just wants to fit in so they change themselves so they feel more accepted.. celebrities might be to blame for setting such trends

if everyone had more self esteem and individuality.. i don't think they would care how skinny they were or if they fit in to the standards..

it's all just a state of mind..skinny doesn't necessarily mean pretty

Answer 2

i dont think any girls wanna be like that that i know of

Answer 3

I dont wanna be skinny im alredy a toothpick && hate it.

Answer 4

ugh. I hate it when people refer to body fat as "meat".

I think that by the time most girls become that small, the way they see their bodies has become distorted a little. They don't really understand how unhealthy they are/look.

Answer 5

I know right, you'd think "wow, why would anyone want to be like that!?" It's sickly. But these girls that do "want" to look like that, it's a disease. You know, anorexia. It comes upon themselves and pretty much takes over. There are different reasons for every girl who's suffering and mostly comes from low self-esteem or depression. Though, most of them are pretty anyways, and may act like they're fine.. it's inside that they're suffering and in the long-run it takes affect on their body. It's an interesting topic :)

edit: (more like an addition) this is a really serious matter than most people may realize =/ it's deffinately not because girls don't want to be fat. I mean, you can still want to be skinny, but not be sick, you know? Those going through what they are may even realize it, but that's just how it is for them.

Answer 6

they may just have a distorted perception of their body, like they don't realize how thin they are, they see themselves as fat. they are preoccupied with looking good... but they don't realize that staying healthy is most important. every girl has her own shape which is attractive, but many girls just want to be different than how they are...  

Answer 7

Think media and celebrities.

Yeah its unhealthy =[

Answer 8

Because we dont want to be fat, i dont want to be that skinny but close. its so painful when you get called fat and no one really goes around talking bad about skinny people and its easier to gain wait than it is to lose it so if some one realised they were too skinny and eat more its that simple but if some one is too fat they go on like a life style change to lose 60 lb in like 2 years, im not saying im over weight i just dont want to be fat and fat people arent attractive who doesnt want to be attractive? So no nasty comments you just dont understand.

Answer 9

Yikes! That pic is scary. I'm worried for that girl

Answer 10

not every guurl looks like that but a lot would love to look like that.

i think it is because celebrities and models and people we see in

magazines and main stream are really skinny/anorexic. so therefore

guurls think that is how they are suppose to look like witch really isn't.

[: hope it helped.

Answer 11

i think they meant they want to be skinny but not to the extent where they look sickly,scary and anorexic, like the one in the picture. Anyway girls associate beauty to skinny now, which is why every girl is on a diet and every girl wants to be thin.