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At June 14th, Netflix made available its new original production To the Bone, with Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves. The movie tells the story about Ellen, a girl in her early twenties, and her battle against anorexia. Ellen is taken by her stepmother to see a new doctor who proposes a new kind of treatment, and she needs to go to a clinic and live with other patients that are in the same conditions.
The movie got into the same controversy of 13 Reasons Why, also an original production from Netflix, a discussion about if it could cause a negative effect at their young audience. Collins lost a lot of weight to live this character and shows a very shinny body, that can be use as a reference to girls dealing with this issue.
The actress and the director and screenwriter Marti Noxon, stand up for the story and admit they suffered with anorexia and other eating disorders at a young age. Despite the controversy about how the theme is approached, the main point is: this subject is on the agenda.
At the beginning, a few girls have this dialogue about how the magazines show us a story about a fat and sad “before” girl, hating herself – and the thin “after” girl telling about the diet that she did and how she is happier now.
Let’s face it: we deal with this kind of questions every day, everywhere. Despite that, if we haven’t personality experienced a body shame issue, we know someone close to us who did. We should talk about it more, be supportive with each other and stop to put so much pressure on ourselves.
Let’s forget about of an “Instagram feed perfection” and simply live our lives and be happy, above of all!