This time Samantha is writing about her favourite topic, herself, whilst also doing the glamorous job of making people feel awful in the process. The only reason the Daily Mail continue to publish her articles that I can fathom is simply for the hype, publicity and attention they must receive in doing so.
Brick's latest article, which can be seen by clicking here, is about dieting and the importance of staying skinny and has set the social networking world ablaze in the process. Brick details her years of passing out from starvation, the glorification of hunger pangs and how her boyfriends and husbands were chosen because they would pressure her to remain thin. She says she became 'accustomed to surviving on fewer than 1,000 calories a day' which is roughly half the calories women need to properly function.
That was the bit that got me. She seems to mention her male counterparts multiple times and their importance in her weight loss.
Her need to remain thin, her emphasis on beauty, seems like an expression of internalised misogyny. Her husband tells her that if she gains weight he will divorce her. She has mentioned the importance of her father and his role in her life in previous articles. This is a woman who clearly puts weight onto the importance of having a man in her life and feels she must do whatever she can to keep him. This article almost seems like a cry for help, the plea for attention from a desperate woman. She is living within a marriage where her beauty, the thing she seems so obsessed with, is something she has to maintain her focus on for the sake of her marriage. In fact she details her marital role in a further article just as shocking as all the others. Though the article in question about dieting never mentions the term 'anorexia' her described behaviour mirrors that of the eating disorder. The article, however, is problematic as it glorifies such an eating disorder and does so to a wide audience.
This article is dangerous because it promotes body-shaming. She suggests women should feel bad because of their weight, as if the media didn't do this enough already, stating that nothing signifies failure more than fat. Offensive and dangerous though her comments may appear this article clearly comes from the mind of a warped and controlled woman. I get the feeling that something is very wrong here.
Perhaps Samantha Brick is a dreadful, egotistical megalomaniac whose main dietary compound is the life she sucks out of journalism and the attention on which she so frequently feeds... Or perhaps there is much more to be considered here.
What are YOUR thoughts on the matter?
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I almost found it hard to believe that article on dieting was for real, how could anyone think that?
ReplyDeleteI read the article where she calls herself a trophy wife. I think if she chooses to put herself into a marriage of that dynamic it's her choice and there's all sorts, it might actually be what makes her happy. But forcing it on other people is inexcusable, no matter what daddy issues she might have.