We are all born with different hair color, different eye color, different nails, different shapes and different sizes. Bottom line-we are all different.

What if we lived in a world, similar to the movie The Stepford Wives, where we were all the same; same hair, same eye color, same body type, same jobs, same cars, same everything? I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound or seem like a very exciting or fulfilling life. What’s the world without diversity?

That’s the beautiful thing about our society we live in is that everybody is an individual. We are all unique in our way.

For women of any age, body image is something that can be a real struggle. Struggling to fit in with peers and struggling to find their own voice amongst all the critics. Magazines are everywhere we go and everyday they are reminding us all of which celebrity is the “fat” one, the one that just tried some new “diet” to get skinnier for a role, or the one that has cellulite.

There is no way to escape the criticism, especially when you are a celebrity or living in the public eye and people are constantly judging you.

No one is perfect and nobody has the “perfect” body. Many celebrities are told to get down to a certain weight when auditioning for a role and many times they go on “crash” diets. They want to land that role and will do anything to get it, but those diets are unsafe. Diets in general aren’t safe for your body.

Not only are the diets unsafe for the body, but those that are asking the celebrities to be down to a certain weight are asking too much of the stars. That weight may not be right for every single actor/actress. That’s because we are all different and there is a lot more to weight than just a number. Most of these stars going on these “crash” diets don’t realize they are: 1. Harmful for their bodies and 2. They’re giving people the notion that they really look like that and what they are doing is ok.

In the U.S. obesity has been the center of attention over the past few years. It has been watched very closely because there are numerous health affects that can hurt your body. So getting overweight is bad and being skinny is good in the eyes of our society. Making people believe the notion that being healthy and skinny are the same thing is absurd.

What people see on the magazines isn’t even the true person that they are representing. Often times those women that are on the cover of the magazines have been airbrushed to reduce pimples, redness and give them shape.

Being skinny doesn’t mean that a person is healthy. As Americans if we want to see the number in diseases go down then we need to change how we address them. Instead of teaching “skinniness” as the cure of obesity we should be teaching the youth about eating and exercising in a healthy way.