Crystal Renn, Kate Dillon and Chenese Lewis Supports NOW Foundation's Video Campaign for NEDAwareness WeekThe Plus Size Advocate

Posted by: Gen V. Caracena

Calling and encouraging all women and girls to tell their own stories particularly their struggles and success about body image, and to celebrate their bodies and reject unrealistic and unhealthy stick-thin images portrayed on the billboards, magazines and screens. This is what NOW Foundation‘s video project Let’s Talk About It” is all about.

In celebration of the National Eating Disorders Awareness Week that is taking place from February 20-26, 2011, the NOW Foundation’s Love Your Body Campaign partners with the National Eating Disorder Association through the launching of a video campaign encouraging women and girls to talk about body image on camera. Media and advertisements are influential in shaping society’s culture and perspective about body image, making them believe that to be beautiful and confident is to have a stick-thin body. With this distorted mindset towards beauty, low self-esteem has become prevalent in women and girls causing them to suffer from eating disorders just to conform to the dictates of the society.

Nevertheless, the media is also a powerful tool to raise people’s awareness about body image and size acceptance. The “Let’s Talk About It” video project encourages women to tell their own stories to put an end to this to this crazy fad.

Ford Models Kate Dillon, Amy Lemons and Crystal Renn are intimately familiar with the struggles related to body image. To help launch the “Let’s Talk About It” video project, they shared their stories and voices, along with actor Lynn Chen, editor Lisa Lee, model and Hollywood NOW president Chenese Lewis, author Nancy Redd, activist Shelby Knox and editor Sunny Gold.

“I encourage everyone to make a video and post it online,” said Erin Matson, the NOW Foundation Education Vice-President. “Your voice might be the one that reaches a girl or woman who is struggling with her self-image. And together, the more videos we create, the more we become part of the solution.”