I'd like to ask when it became mandated by society that the most obvious of details will be ignored/and or denied by the masses until experts step in and slap us in the face? Because doctors are now reporting a new type of eating disorder in children attributed to aggressive anti-obesity campaigns.

According to this article, Australian doctors are now treating an onslaught of healthy children being driven to starvation. Victoria's three leading pediatric services are treating children at the upper end of the medically-accepted healthy weight range who have lost up to a third of their body weight so they can stay thin.

"Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less."

This is just one of the messages accompanying a bold series of nude photos of Katya Zharkova, a U.S. size 12, in the January issue of PLUS Model Magazine, which asks its readers "What's wrong with our bodies, anyway?"  Quite obviously, there has been a fair amount of publicity and plenty of controversy as some praise the statements made in the shoot while others claim that endorsing a fuller figure is no safer than promoting the current fashion model ideal.

There’s a reason I don’t watch the news. And it has a lot to do with not putting myself in a bad mood while eating my Cheerios when news sources report that 12-year-olds are getting bikini waxes.

My first response when I saw this sexy anorexia costume was complete and utter outrage. As a recovered bulimic who still battles with body image issues, it's still hard to get a firm grip on accepting the reflection in the mirror and ignoring what I see on the cover of celebrity magazines. But then I shared the story with a friend who I assumed would be just as mad as I was - due to her own struggles with body image - and her response was, essentially, "Lighten up. Humor is a good response to serious issues. It gets people talking..."