If you were to ask any girl, wether or not they have struggled at one time or another with comparing themselves to someone else, there answer would most likely be yes. Everyday, girls are struggling with eating disorders, addictions to diet pills, and suicidal thoughts, because they are trying to be good enough. I struggled with an eating disorder for over 4 years, and there are still days when the thought crosses my mind that I could probably go without eating a meal. These struggles are brought on by many different things, and the advertisements that we see every single day are one of those things.
We are exposed to an average of 560 advertisements per day.* And many of those ads are covered with fake girls. Girls that work out ridiculous amounts(because it's their job to look good). Girls that have gone through surgery after surgery to look the way they do. Girls that have been covered in so much makeup and self-tanner that you can't even see their real skin. And on top of all that, they have been digitally altered to become more appealing. We can't compete with that. It is impossible. And so, we do whatever we can, even if that means not eating, or eating and throwing up. We will do whatever it takes to get noticed.
Well here's the thing, people are noticing those Victoria's Secret models, and finally they are noticing them in a different way. They aren't commenting on how hot they are, or how sexy they are, they are commenting on how they want something other than a VS model, they want someone real.
“Alex Eklund, a student at Baylor University, posted a status on Facebook stating, “I’d rather have a Proverbs 31 woman than a Victoria’s Secret Model”. Since then, other Baylor students and their friends have reposted, made graphics, and even a page has been made for it all because of the positive reaction it received from the people that saw it. Here are Alex’s thoughts on the movement’s beginning as well as some of his goals for the movement and what he believes the message means to so many people. Spread the word, live 31″
*Adams, Charles F., Common Sense in
Advertising, New York: McGraw-Hill Book
Company, 1965.
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