The majority of the actors and actresses that star in the television shows are those who are skinny and attractive. However, the United States as a whole is considered obese. One particular program, Mike and Molly, took a different approach in the appearance of the stars. Mike and Molly stars Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell, who are two plus sized actors. The show is about their dating lives and different life lessons that they learn throughout it with a more comical view rather than serious. The approach taken in this show raised four different questions. How much does the weight of the stars affect the show? Does it affect the air time or the likelihood to win an award? Were they hired because of their weight? How does the media view these actors?
The weight of the actors within the show has a significant impact, but in a positive way. Americans are more likely to watch Mike and Molly because of the weight of the stars. They can relate more to them than to a skinny and beautiful model, who is nothing like them. Television as a whole lately has been taken over by reality shows. Even though this is not a reality show, it is more realistic than other television shows. It is a show that heavier viewers can enjoy. Ann Oldenburg interviewed Billy Gardell who plays Mike, the husband of Melissa McCarthy, who plays Molly. Gardell said, "I've had some heavier people come up to say it's nice to see somebody who's not 112 pounds, and I've had people come up and say, 'I love the way you address this.' There's always a positive energy about our show" (par. 13). This demonstrates how viewers of Mike and Molly appreciate how it is different. The fact that the actors/actresses are plus-sized sets the show apart from the many other televi...
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She insults the article by telling her audience, “Gossip magazines keep us constantly abreast of what 's happening to the bodies of famous women.” She even talks about disciplining herself to lose weight to let audience know that she is over weighted. Some of the text that the authors use, people can relate too, and understand that the author has been through the same situation. Gay uses the word denial to explain the outraged of how people deny themselves to maintain their ideal bodies. The article is convincing, and the appealing of the author tone sets the mood of this article. Roxane Gay contrast on how these television shows are not the shows you want to watch. She also gave the audience other examples on a positive effect of losing
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These “plump” models have made it seem as if it’s socially acceptable to work while “plump.” The reason thin models were so favored around the 1950s was because it gave young teenage boys and girls inspiration to “workout and eat healthy” so you can feel both beautiful inside and out. Now, the obesity rate for both men and women have drastically increased (Up to 20%), and their is no motivation in them whatsoever. With the addition of “plump models” it’s given them a reason to not live a better lifestyle.
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Step out into the everyday world as an average American and you will witness an entanglement of varied body size, and shape. Now, enter the world of the media, a world in which you are formally introduced to high fashion, where flashing lights, money, glamour and riches crash around you, satiating every crevice of your being. Here, you will find two unified body types, divided into two categories of shape in women; thin, and thick. Naturally, any woman who wishes to someday strut down the catwalk in Zac Posen, or pose in Marie Claire wearing Dolce and Cabana must have a body that fits one of these required molds, right? It is a well-known reality that many women who cannot reach by healthy means, or do not already have, the desired body type for fashion industries, will develop an eating disorder to starve their way into the position. However, most fail to address the issue of obesity that curdles on the other end of the physical spectrum; the plus size modeling industry. This statement not only boils the blood of millions of American Women, but begs the question: If extremely thin models promote eating disorders, should we prohibit advertisers, especially those in fashion, from using plus size models, as they may promote obesity? To put it simply, no. Plus size models do not promote obesity because they only provide thicker, much larger women, confidence and appreciation for their body without pressuring them to take unhealthy means to shed pounds; they do not encourage overeating and lack of exercise.
When promoting plus sizes and television shows, are self-esteem or heart disease also being promoted? People throughout the world struggle with being anorexic, bulimic, overweight, or obese. TLC’s now popular reality TV show, My 600 Pound Life, displays the daily struggles of morbidly obese people. While encouraging women to love their body is appealing, there are many dangers in the fondness of obesity. Glorifying obesity can lead to being morbidly unhealthy, as demonstrated by Dominique Lanoise, a woman who died from morbid obesity.
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“At length, by so much importunity pressed, Take (Molly) at once the inside of my breast; This stupid indifference so often you blame Is not owing to nature, to fear, or to shame; I am not as cold as a virgin in lead, Nor is Sunday’s sermon so strong in my head; I know but too well how time flies along, That we live but few years and yet fewer are young.
Being underweight affect models and their surroundings physically and mentally. In the article “Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial”, it was stated that “Models fear they will be replaced by a thinner alternative if they do not conform to the sample size-(par1).” By every models thinking like this, no matter the age, will be affected mentally or lead to something fatal. This is a huge issue express by the writer of “Killer Fashion: An industry in Denial.”Rodenbough express how much underweight models was an issue. “28 year old French model Isabelle Caro spent the last years of her life publicizing the horrors of the disease”(Rodenbough par.1). She died from the eating disorder of anorexia. Yet she is not the only one who died from this spreading issue. “Caro unsettling death recalled a string of fatalities in 2006 and 2007 of fashion models who suffered from eating disorders, which, while highly publicized at the time, had since largely faded from the public’s-and the fashion industry’s- memory”(Rodenbough par.2). The fashion it a major issue when you have a handful of women at varies ages dying? “In Montevideo, Uruguay 22 year old fashion model Luisel Ramos collapsed and dies from heart failure believed to have been triggered by self-imposed starvation”(Rodenbough par.3).To a normal person who do not pay attention to their weight, this would be absurd, idiotic, and crazy. Yet like one said before the models are petrified of being anything but tiny which sometimes can be consider a size o. “...The sample-sometimes a size 00, which is, incomprehensibly, one size less than 0”(Rodenbough par.1). Fitting inside a size 00 would be perfect to a model because that is spot no other model could fit unless they was the same size. Like w...
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