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Originally posted by queenstomper:
I have also thought for months now that Sarah Barnes' character is not setting the greatest example for impressionable teens. She is very slim (I don't like to say thin or skinny as I know it's not the way those who are slim particularly like to be described) and although she looks great her character is a) a model (photographic model and yet she has a very visible scar on her upper lip) and b)she entered the programme as a very fit, athletic girl who was a championship swimmer.

Now, she never exercises at all and is a lot slimmer.

What sort of message is that giving out? Although granted the swimming training storyline did have a message of its own.

She is setting a bad example by being slim? Well what sort of example would she be setting if she was a fat slob? I don't think any girl in Hollyoaks is dangerously skinny, they're all fine(I'm not going to say "normal" because it doesn't exist.)

Anyway, I'm naturally slim and I love it. I don't see why anyone should be ashamed of what shape they are, people should learn to love themselves, because unfortunately we live in a very supreficial world in which you will always be criticised no matter what shape you are or you do. That's my philosophy anyway, anyone that says all thin people are anorexic and all curvy girls eat too much are obviously very thick, ignorant, brainless oxygen wasters.

"It is only imperfection that sees the imperfect."

^^^^ I so agree with you, I couldn't have put it better myself

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Why thank you.

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Originally posted by ilovefashion:
I can fit into a size 0 and i'm not ill or anything. I don't have the best diet tho, i just live on crap. I hate being the size i am, i would rather be bit bigger.

yeah me too! i eat for the world i just dont know where it goes...i have a fast metabolism me thinks. though people keep saying i dont eat and then when they see meeat they like :O ohhh..im like yeah thats right :P! lol

Size zero means nothing.

A size zero in one shop is a 4 in another and a 2 in another!

Well the only place i have tried on size 0/4 is Bershka.

Also, size 0 fits me around my waist but the length is too short.

It really pisses me of when people say it's not "right" to be that size, excuse me. Do you go to a overweigh person LOOSE WEIGH? Course you don't But people think it's okay to tell me that i'm ill?

Ever since i was little i have been a really fussy eater and never weighed much.

She is a size zero, for those who think she isn't. There's an interview with her in a magazine I have, I'm not entirely sure which one it is. And she says it herself, that shes a size zero, but is naturally slim.