With the media's power over our gaze, lots of women then turn to diet and exercise to try and fit into society's ideal figure. When the average representation of what the perfect figure for women looks like turns out to be an incredibly thin, curve free model, it's hard for women who are not born with this body type to accept that how they look is more than okay. Children today often look up to other child actors, or what is portrayed as a child actor, and think, "why doesn't my body look like that? Aren't we the same age?" Growing up is hard enough, but growing up with the image of an 18 year old playing the age of a 14 year old on tv is incredibly difficult for viewers to see and it doesn't stop there as we get older, we look to magazines, fashion instagrams, influencers, and other media outlets to see what the latest trends are, but most importantly, we look to see what we should look like. Diets, exercise crazes, and the media's portrayal of the 'ideal body' has been a major contributor to women and young girls, as well as men, believing their natural body shape is not acceptable. How did a time once filled with nothing but joy turn into this doom of "will my body be good enough"? America has grown increasingly more hostile towards body image over the past 50 years. Over the past several weeks, I've gotten many nervous "7 weeks until bikini time," "4 weeks until bikini season," "2 weeks until I have to be in a bikini," "I'm not going to the beach or any pool parties this summer" texts from several different friends. Main stream media has begun to include all body types in modeling and advertisement campaigns, but yet there's a sense of not feeling good enough still lingering in the air. Summer is the warmest and most fun season, but it can also easily be the most stressful season for anyone who suffers from body image issues. Whenever I give a tour of my town I never leave out the village or the colleges because they’re such a huge part of what makes my town so special. In fact, Claremont is known as a college town because of how college centered it is (so much so we actually named a lot of our streets after famous colleges). They all have their own personalities despite not having any distinct borders separating them. They’re all very distinguished, both in their reputation as educational institutions and their campus. They’re known as the Five-C’s (The Five Claremont Colleges): Pomona, McKenna, Scripps, Pitzer, and Harvey Mudd. What also contributes heavily to the grandeur of the city is the fact that it’s the home of five very prestigious colleges. You’ll rarely find the restaurants and shopping attractions anywhere else. It has a village that’s filled with unique, privately managed businesses that further add to the uniqueness of the overall city. Nevertheless its beauties are unbound by the restrictions of descriptive words as they do it no justice. Instead, I push through, and I hope you can too.Ĭlaremont is about an hour or so away from L.A. It's still there, though, and I can't change that because someone thinks it makes me unfit for a job. I never chose to struggle with depression. I highly doubt anyone would have singled me out and tried to get me kicked out of the CMC program. I assume the comment was made with good intentions. These struggles do not have to stop you, and don't listen to anyone that tells you differently. I fought every day to be better than my depression threatened to make me. I finished out the year as CMC and made several memories that could last me a lifetime. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't succeed because you struggle with depression. Because of that, I was apparently not fit for the CMC position according to this person. I never hid what my struggle was from anyone. I was very forthright with this fact to my floor. Despite this, I've kept going, pushing through so that I could help others who struggle. As I've alluded to several times in this blog, I have a long-standing battle with depression that has made life a living hell at times.
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