The psychiatrist and author Dr. Manfred Lütz calls for the dismissal of the TV format “Germany’s Next Top Model”. The mission could drive young girls in the deadly disease anorexia, he explains the “image”. The 61-year-old’s response to the publication of a study by the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI): 241 is due to an eating disorder in therapeutic treatment are in dividend people – mostly girls and young women – were asked whether or what TV shows their would affect disease. 70 people indicated that the model program “very strong influence” had on them.
The fact that Heidi Klum’s “Germany’s Next Top Model” conveyed a seemingly fixed, but actually unrealistic beauty ideal, probably most be clear. What aspects of the format but “unhealthy” are concrete, the study, entitled “For that, I just have to take off” broken down based on the answers of respondents.
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Normally, good looks
Fact: In the Model format “Germany’s Next Top Model” it is ostensibly about appearances. However, the mission staging exclusively physical symptoms except young women who measure at least 1.72 meters and a maximum of 36 standard size would bear. Thus arises the feeling that “there are so many great, thin disciplined girls who thereby achieve something and above all look amazing,” the study quoted a 17-year-old anorexic. Good looks as normally -. So loud the resultant logic
Lack Willpower has debt
“Then one wishes, just look like these girls, and at the same time somehow mad at themselves, not to have that willpower or that ambition,” says a 17-year-old girl with bulimia addiction. The standards of the mission would not be questioned. In addition, the impression you have it solely in the hands, easily adapt arises. The central narrative patterns of the show was:. Everything is a matter of discipline
Reinforced compared
Those who observed the candidates of “GNTM” on their way on television, compares himself in one way or another Situation automatically with the protagonists of the show. Depending on the call revealing the images, the more comparison: apparently the motto The following applies. If the junior Models herummäkelten to himself, so the audience
Approaching the Ideal would at home even more on your own body and its alleged failure to look.
From the comparison are consequences drawn. If the candidates would eat, so you look closely: What and how much to eat the girl? It is especially difficult when calorie food would shown will. “What the still sometimes eat and I gain from so little,” says a 17-year-old with anorexia. As a result, frustration, discomfort and inferiority complexes
What needs to change
The IZI also elicited, what needs to change in the opinion of the girls surveyed in the mission of Heidi Klum.?. The range of proposals is wide: Accordingly, quite demanded to discontinue the show, but for example, to treat the girls in the show “decent”. Not every small misstep could be criticized. A sign of quality are more individuality and originality – even compared with the supposed model Heidi Klum
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