I got my research from a number areas but I found this documentary below really informative and interesting. The documentary is about journalist Dawn Porter being asked by the BBC to go on the size zero diet for two months to see if she can achieve this scary celebrity look. I found aspects of this programme really interesting such as the attitudes in LA about size, where woman openly admit to not eating to be a size zero.
I have put the URL addresses clips below that I found on YouTube from the documentary.
'My quest for size zero'
by DAWN PORTER
I found a number of articles that had been written in the 2000's which were about woman self loathing themselves, because of how the media portrays how amazing the celebrity's look and what an achievement it is that they have got their bikini bodies back in two weeks.
E.g. Women in the Noughties: Self-Loathing & Scared?
By Hannah Mudge
Decade in review: You are a very Noughtie - and unhappy - girl
What were women thinking? They wanted shoes, bags, Botox and boys. But did it make them happy? Time to get real
Camilla Long
When researching for more in depth information about plastic surgery I found some interesting statistics as to the quantity's of people having procedure that are cosmetic, this is not including cosmetic surgery after n accident in the United States.
The numbers are from 2009 and the results are very interesting, and a little scary as to how many people are following these procedure's to be "Perfect". This makes you wonder if they have all been effected by what they see in the media, as some of the articles suggest.
Minimally invasive cosmetic procedures rose 1 percent, to nearly 11 million, in 2009, and were up 99 percent since 2000. The top ones in 2009 were:
- Botulinum toxic type A (Botox), 4.8 million.
- Soft tissue fillers, 1.7 million.
- Chemical peels, 1.1 million.
- Microdermabrasion (removing dead skin), 910,000.
- Laser hair removal, 893,000.
Cosmetic surgical procedures fell 9 percent in 2009, with more than 1.5 million performed. Surgical procedures are down 20 percent since 2000. The top five surgical procedures in 2009 were:
- Breast enlargement, 289,000.
- Nose reshaping, 256,000.
- Liposuction, 198,000
- Tummy Tuck, 115,000
As well as finding all of my interesting facts I also came across this artist that had put the ideas and negativity of celebrity plastic surgery into a tapestry piece.
Lisa Borgnes, Los Feliz blogger, takes this large scale with her show “Stitching Up the Noughties” at ACME Gallery.
In her work, she aims to continue that narrative of a traditional 19th century tapestry, but through the prism of a 21st century lens. Instead of a subject matter like religion, domesticity and morality, her stitched samplers explore the preoccupations of the last decade (the ‘Noughties’): things like Botox, plastic surgery, ‘It’ bags and the recession.
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