Brides + Feeding Tubes = Not Good

            I just read the article “The K-E Diet: Brides-to-Be Using Feeding Tubes to Rapidly Shed Pounds” by Yunji De Nies. Being nice, I am completely disgusted. I do not think that women should use a feeding tube in order to loose weight before their wedding. Doing this is completely contradictory to the event in which they are doing it for. Marriage is the devotion from one person to another, saying they will love you forever no matter what. Marriage is about loving someone for who they are and women shouldn’t want to change their bodies for someone who loves them just the way they are.

            As a teenage girl, I am constantly exposed to a world obsessed with body and facial image. People no longer accept anything less than perfect and they expect it from everyone. Every month I get five magazines; Seventeen, Self, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Glamour. I read through them page for page and, as every girl does, wishes I was the Victoria’s Secret model in it. While Seventeen does a good job of making things such as “love your body” pages and specials on stars and what flaws they have that they love, they still have the ads of half-naked women photo-shopped posing with perfume bottles or makeup. We see the perfect bodies, perfect faces and look and the mirror and don’t get why we don’t look like that. It sounds stupid, but when you have pages and pages of girls looking perfect right in front of you, you start to believe that it’s how everyone else wants you to look, too.

            I believe that this constant exposure to fake advertisement of what our bodies should look like is what causes women to do things such as use feeding tubes to lose weight. Especially for the one person in the world who is supposed to love you no matter what you look like. It is that mindset that is causing girls to feel like objects, like their marriages are only for spectators and that true love is the talk of fantasies and not of real life.