Today I sent this email to the Editor of Heat Magazine:
"Dear Lucie Cave,
I'm emailing you in regards to a few recent articles that have been published in Heat magazine and on the Heat website.
I have been a reader of Heat for several years now and was originally drawn to it because of its individuality, creativity and humour. Heat stood out from other women's magazines as it was not body obsessed and focused on entertaining celebrity articles instead.
Myself and friends, including Louise Jones who has worked for you in the past, were disgusted to read an article in issue 668 about Heidi Range and her weightloss. The article said she was ecstatic to be size 6 again and never wants to be size 10 again as its too curvaceous.
Personally this disgusted me as to claim that size 6 is the ideal figure is unhealthy and an awful message to send to young women. Discussions began on twitter with many users shocked that Heat would allow something like this to be posted in their magazine and online.
Another article that sparked upset on twitter was tweeted by the Heat account last night, claiming how happy Jennifer Lawernece was to have lost weight and how much better she feels for it.
Heat is promoting extreme weightloss to young women who already feel vulnerable in modern society. I began purchasing Heat as I felt it combated this problem instead of fuelling it.
I am really disappointed to have found articles like this in Heat. Women should be made to feel great no matter what shape or size they are, and many people are now feeling not good enough or the wrong size.
I hope you can understand where I am coming from as I wanted to voice the opinions made by myself and many of my friends on twitter.
Thank you for responding to our tweets and for taking the time to read this email.
Ellie Steadman"
I'm emailing you in regards to a few recent articles that have been published in Heat magazine and on the Heat website.
I have been a reader of Heat for several years now and was originally drawn to it because of its individuality, creativity and humour. Heat stood out from other women's magazines as it was not body obsessed and focused on entertaining celebrity articles instead.
Myself and friends, including Louise Jones who has worked for you in the past, were disgusted to read an article in issue 668 about Heidi Range and her weightloss. The article said she was ecstatic to be size 6 again and never wants to be size 10 again as its too curvaceous.
Personally this disgusted me as to claim that size 6 is the ideal figure is unhealthy and an awful message to send to young women. Discussions began on twitter with many users shocked that Heat would allow something like this to be posted in their magazine and online.
Another article that sparked upset on twitter was tweeted by the Heat account last night, claiming how happy Jennifer Lawernece was to have lost weight and how much better she feels for it.
Heat is promoting extreme weightloss to young women who already feel vulnerable in modern society. I began purchasing Heat as I felt it combated this problem instead of fuelling it.
I am really disappointed to have found articles like this in Heat. Women should be made to feel great no matter what shape or size they are, and many people are now feeling not good enough or the wrong size.
I hope you can understand where I am coming from as I wanted to voice the opinions made by myself and many of my friends on twitter.
Thank you for responding to our tweets and for taking the time to read this email.
Ellie Steadman"
I have yet to receive a reply and doubt I will do as one voice is not loud enough for them to listen too.
^ The online link to the article.
The article in issue 668 of Heat .
Personally this has upset me as magazines should not publish articles like this when their words could easily damage the opinions of so many young women or teenagers.
I am very uncomfortable in my own skin and struggle with weight.
I am a size 10/12 and now feel like that is too big for today's fashionable society.
May just be me, but I would love to know what others would think.
The more people that complain to Heat, the higher the chance of them listening!
Thoughts please?
Much love
xx
