Girls Under Pressure
Girls under pressure
The story starts where Ellie and her two best friends, Magda and Nadine, are Christmas shopping at the Flowerfields Shopping Centre. While they shop, they notice a large buzz of an event going on upstairs. Nadine wonders if it is television. Magda replies, "Wow, I hope so" and steers the other two upstairs. It turns out to be a modelling competition for Spicy magazine, which Ellie discovers after seeing a lot of pretty and thin teenage girls getting their photos taken. Ellie stares in horror as she realizes what she has been in the line waiting. She witnesses Magda and Nadine being photographed, seeing how Nadine is "model-girl" thin (Wilson). It is Ellie's turn to be photographed, but she runs away, pushing people through the line as she goes, with the result that one of the girls says, "She's far too fat for modelling!”(Wilson). Ellie who was hurt and upset, leaves and goes home. This is where her obsessive dieting starts and she battles with a messy form of dieting, making herself sick once or twice. Despite the warnings from her family and friends, she still goes on a crash diet, exercising too much and starving herself, trying to become skinnier.
It gets worst when Nadine gets through to the first round of the Spicy modelling competition. Ellie tries to be supportive but envies all of the models and their bodies. However, Nadine is not chosen to go through to the next round and she disagreed with the result, but make it up on the way home.
Ellie, a highly intelligent student who has been put up a year to take her General Certificate of Secondary Education early. Ellie is motivated to lose weight by not eating as Zoe had a "biggish bum" and now she has "amazing cheekbones", due to her lack of food and lots of exercise. However, Ellie eventually stops after hearing that Zoe, a model got so thin she collapsed and almost died of heart failure. She goes to visit the hospital Zoe is in, and she is shocked by how sad and small Zoe
The story starts where Ellie and her two best friends, Magda and Nadine, are Christmas shopping at the Flowerfields Shopping Centre. While they shop, they notice a large buzz of an event going on upstairs. Nadine wonders if it is television. Magda replies, "Wow, I hope so" and steers the other two upstairs. It turns out to be a modelling competition for Spicy magazine, which Ellie discovers after seeing a lot of pretty and thin teenage girls getting their photos taken. Ellie stares in horror as she realizes what she has been in the line waiting. She witnesses Magda and Nadine being photographed, seeing how Nadine is "model-girl" thin (Wilson). It is Ellie's turn to be photographed, but she runs away, pushing people through the line as she goes, with the result that one of the girls says, "She's far too fat for modelling!”(Wilson). Ellie who was hurt and upset, leaves and goes home. This is where her obsessive dieting starts and she battles with a messy form of dieting, making herself sick once or twice. Despite the warnings from her family and friends, she still goes on a crash diet, exercising too much and starving herself, trying to become skinnier.
It gets worst when Nadine gets through to the first round of the Spicy modelling competition. Ellie tries to be supportive but envies all of the models and their bodies. However, Nadine is not chosen to go through to the next round and she disagreed with the result, but make it up on the way home.
Ellie, a highly intelligent student who has been put up a year to take her General Certificate of Secondary Education early. Ellie is motivated to lose weight by not eating as Zoe had a "biggish bum" and now she has "amazing cheekbones", due to her lack of food and lots of exercise. However, Ellie eventually stops after hearing that Zoe, a model got so thin she collapsed and almost died of heart failure. She goes to visit the hospital Zoe is in, and she is shocked by how sad and small Zoe