What’s a girl to do,
in this world of criticism and judgment.
A world of starvation and poise
touching the young minds of every daughter.

Any size over five,
not good enough.
A disease spreading like frost,
incurable like cancer.
Common yet deadly,
affecting loved ones around us.
Innocent lives prowled upon by this assassin,
losing all control.
Just like this battle of starvation
to girls across America.

Food goes beyond a need to survive
and becomes the enemy.
A constant reminder of the calorie intake.
Where working out goes beyond just a daily routine
and becomes a necessity.
Like that swimmer
that misses gold by half a second
year,
after year,
after year
…after year.
Girls trying so hard to be this person.
blonde
big boobs
tan
skinny.
And for what?
To be the next runner up
on America’s Next Top Model.
All of these equal happy
all of these equal perfect.
Perfect.
But girls like this become nothing short of one thing-
fake
fried hair
plastic nose
DD bra size
cheetoh- orange skin.
This search for something real
leaving every superficial bimbo
shining of Barbie’s plastic.
Like looking through fog,
blind as to what they’ve become
forgetting who they really are.

Cosmo in one hand; reflection in the other
mirrors become our worst obsession
magazines become our manual to life
our Bible, our Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul.
Life comes with many manuals
and this is what we choose to read…


A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO HAPPINESS
By following these guidelines, you will live a happy life and feel great doing it

1.
Food is the enemy. Starvation is the number one proven trick around it.
(WARNING: feeling hunger is normal. Some side effects include- light headedness, vomiting on your friends, exhaustion, nausea, cringing at every mirror glimpse, mood swings, and being deteriorated into nothing but bones.)

2.
Stay away from temptations- don’t hang out with people during meal times. Number one rule- if you’re hungry, just drink.

3.
Keep a scale with you at all times. Documenting your weight is the most important thing. Record it. Count it. Live it. Use it as your coach to help you drop those numbers!

4.
Go to the gym every day. Your motto-“work out till you pass out.” Find someone at the gym who is skinnier than you that you can compare yourself to, to motivate you to get a good work out in.


Follow these four simple rules and you will have all the boys after you. You’ve finally discovered beautiful. Even try some of our helpful phrases to use when you are out with your friends:

HELPFUL PHRASES TO USE
“I already ate.”
“I throw up when I eat the color green.”
“I don’t have a digestive system… it deteriorated.”
“Food makes me sick.”
“I’m on a diet.”

Girls live by this guide
strive for these rules
fixate on every detail
clutching on to it for dear life.

So where does it stop?
When do we reach the finish line?
How will this infection end?
This cure be found?
I’ll tell you where it ends.
It ends when people start to accept, not judge
be real, not fake.
The quest for this ideal persona stops
when girls realize they can’t be anyone
anyone but themselves
because everyone else is taken.
Voluptuous girls loved for every curve on their body
every pound on the scale.
This.
This,
is when every girl will be accepted.
This,
is when the world will be changed.