![]() Mendelsohn believes families can combat the prevalence of this kind of image and thinking, starting with moms developing healthy self-images and attitudes to pass on to daughters. So now, it has to be about taking off the bathing suit.” “There’s only so much you can do with a bathing suit. “For years the swimsuit edition has been about being sexy and this is their idea of sexy,” she adds. ![]() They just crossed the line from swimsuit to Playboy,” Mendelsohn says. “What really bothers me about that cover image is that she’s pulling down her pants and very obviously shaven. Mendelsohn mentions that young women and teens obsessing over a perceived social mandate to shave and wax their bikini areas is an increasing concern she has noted. That kind of thinking is likely to contribute to mental health challenges that disproportionately affect women, such as eating disorders and depression, which Mendelsohn characterizes as “an epidemic in America right now.” “Girls saying, ‘I refuse to be what they want me to be’ and becoming obese because they feel they can’t ever achieve the image expected of them by society.” “I know it sounds unbelievable, but some of what we’re seeing is a tendency towards obesity that actually comes from girls rejecting the skinny images,” Mendelsohn explains. Therefore, seeing the new Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and even the plus-size ad leads girls to either objectify themselves and in so doing develop unhealthy eating habits to lose or gain weight. The problem is the sexual objectification of women in the media can lead to the same problem in real life. Mendelsohn also notes that the man is not with the plus-size girl and the fact that he’s falling into the pool in apparent shock tells us that this bikini is not about the girl feeling good, but pleasing the man as a route to feeling good about herself. “First thing I noticed about the plus-size ad – and by the way I hate that term because it always sounds like it’s a bad thing to be – is that they picked a guy much smaller than the model to seemingly accentuate her size.” ![]() Mendelsohn’s work is helping young women suffering from eating disorders and their families. In the same issue we have the plus-size bikini ad.” “When push comes to shove, a week later Sports Illustrated puts out this very provocative, disrespectful in some ways, image of women. “We get one positive ad during the Super Bowl,” says Glenda Mendelsohn, family therapist with the Princeton Family Institute in New Jersey during a phone interview. This week, the fact that a plus-size model in a bikini is featured in the Sports Illustrated (SI) swimsuit issue made headlines, followed by the extra risqué cover revealed by Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday.Īshley Graham, 27, is the first size 14-16 model to appear in the annual issue, albeit in a paid advertisement for the plus-size bathing suit company swimsuitsforall. How overturning Roe will reverberate through America
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