A recent research has revealed that fashion models have poor mental health, low life satisfaction and psychological fulfillment than their counterparts in other professions. Despite being called beauty icons, glamorous models feel isolated and objectified as they are judged by their looks almost everyday.
Psychologists at London’s City University conducted the research on 56 models, almost two-thirds of them female, and 53 non-models from other professions. The shocking results revealed that models felt that their lives were out of their control and this fuelled unhealthy physical obsessions and low self-esteem.
An Australian psychologist Prof Ussher said that fashion models were an extreme case of the consequence of objectifying the female body.
If we treat women just as objects and we judge them on their looks daily, that becomes their life, so it’s not surprising they feel like this,
she said.
She added,
They suffer incredible anxiety because they can’t stop trying to control their bodies with dieting, exercise and purging. But they don’t. Looking perfect, as far as society deems it, doesn’t make them happy, so we shouldn’t strive for it.
They say, wealth and fame come at a price, and in the case of models it is absolutely true.
