Okay, so as I've said before a few times, I do not soley blame the media or the fashion industry for anorexia or bulimia, or for my own problems. I do though, give them partial credit for my self esteem issues, and our societies warped ideal body images. That's fair, right?

So, we know that a little over a year ago that the big head haunchos in the fashion industry claimed they were going to address the issue of their models becoming way too thin by raising the bmi requirement for some of them and firing models that were too thin. But over this past year since then, I have seen no change. I have watched the models get thinner or stay the same. I have watched fellow bloggers actually go into the fasion industries front offices and ask to speak to the manager about improvements in our stick thin situation and so far they have done nothing but hand people sheets of paper that they were giving out last year about how slowly but surely they are "working on it".

Obviously it's not a top priority...maybe not even a priority at all. Let's be honest here, did we really expect the fashion industry to just change everything and switch out models at the drop of a hat? No, I didn't. But I do hope that my siblings children will not have to grow up exposed to this kind of stuff. This is disgusting, and I'm so tired of being told that an eleven year old's body is what a WOMAN should look like.

I am no longer purchasing fashion magazines and I will continue to write into Teen Vogue (whose models are deathly thin) and other magazines, asking them to reconsider the kind of message they're sending out to my peers and I.

Just because I am a victim of this mind warping does not mean I can't do anything about it. I'm not that weak yet.