Anorexia and Body Image Narration

Anorexia and Body Image Narration

Project Overview

NOTE: This project tackles a difficult topic which may be a trigger for those sensitive about body image and eating disorders; please don't read/audition if you struggle with these concepts/subjects.

In the modern era, the media and fashion industry would have women believe that they must attain an unrealistic skinny/thin in order to be considered beautiful. This pressure on impressionable young women lead many to pursue unhealthy ways of achieving this weight loss goal.

Anorexia is among the most common eating (and mental) disorders among the fashion and modeling industry. It becomes a mentality that you must ALWAYS strive to be thinner, prettier, and that you are 'too big', no matter your tiny waist -- and one that is difficult to overcome.

For her thesis/graduation project, a student from the University of Victoria (UVic) in BC, Canada decided to tackle this difficult topic in the form of a public presentation. Through a course of several brain storming meetings, which became an unofficial support group therapy, three university students (and former anorexic women) were able to tackle the mentality and destructive nature of western beauty standards.

This project is a reading of the exact script in which they presented to a room of men and women, in order to educate and reduce social stigma surrounding issues of self image, pressure from the media, and eating disorders. It will be uploaded to YouTube along with approved photos of a Canadian freelance model who tread dangerously close to destroying herself in her pursuit of beauty.

Requirement:
  • - Good quality microphone; clear voice and no background noise.
  • - Dedication; don't audition if you're liable to back out/not have time to commit (it's a very short project, after all)
  • - Voice Chat Program; please have either a Skype or Discord account as I may want to give directions for recordings
  • - Do NOT be sensitive; if these subjects bother you, don't audition. Likewise, if you're liable to get upset because I need you to redo lines, don't waste my time with auditioning.

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Project Roles: A(lexa) C(arolyn) M(isty)
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
A(lexa)
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Unpaid

Alexa was the project leader who spear-headed the talk on promoting healthy eating and self esteem. She wrote the script itself and wanted to lift the veil surrounding eating disorders and the destructive nature of western beauty standards, while sharing her story of strife and perseverance.

She is typically an upbeat, bubbly, and loud personality that stands out among a crowd; she uses a lot of this to cover up her own insecurities. Through this script, she dropped the mask of being carefree and opened up a part of her fears and insecurities that, until then, she had hid from everyone.

  • [Normal] Boys didn't like me. I got comments like, "I'd sleep with you... if you were skinnier." Followed by, "Doesn't that make you feel pretty?"[Sad/Pensive] Pretty. Pretty.  What does pretty even mean? This hollow word that had no depth. But I had such depth. 

  • [Pained] I lost and lost and lost until I lost myself. I saw ribs. I saw veins. And then it came back. My disease.

  • [Hopeful] I want to smile without worrying
    about all my chins. I want to have the time to make myself happy. I want to be
    able to move around comfortably in my skin. In 5 years, I want to love
    myself like I like the world.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
C(arolyn)
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Unpaid

Carolyn was the third and final member to join the project; hesitant at first to speak about her past in a public format. Typically quiet and reserved, she still has a bright spark within her that she's afraid to let out.

  • [Normal] About a week ago, a girl I know
    posted on Facebook

    [Stereotype Preppy] "You should really replace your
    regular sandwich bread with Ezekiel Bread, because it's like, all natural, and
    it's super delicious."

    [Snarky] Anyone who tells you that Ezekiel
    bread is delicious is lying to you.  Ezekiel Bread tastes like cardboard.

  • [Dramatic] Because lately I have been
    thinking about the way that we care what we look like, as if there is some
    future for us as thin and beautiful, but this is not a fucking dress rehearsal,
    this is the real thing.  

  • [Reflective/Pensive] The one thing is, I can't imagine
    going back to where I was. To not eating anything. It's terrifying. I don't
    think I could do it. Nobody in my life would let me. They know it could happen,
    so they're ready to act on it.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
M(isty)
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Misty was the second person to join the group, having formerly worked as a freelance model; she was optimistic about potentially making a change with this project. She is typically withdrawn, feeling a lot of anxiety in regards to her appearance -- she often feels the need to hide under baggy clothing or simply not leave her home. Modeling destroyed her sense of self and she eventually went on an indefinite hiatus in order to preserve what was left of her confidence.

(I may choose to read this role)

  • [Annoyed] Why is there even a distinction necessary, a category, made to describe
    the difference between someone of a slightly more voluptuous size?  A model is a model is a model. 

  • [Matter-of-fact] By the end of high school, excessive exercise and dieting had brought my
    weight down to a terrifyingly low 120 lbs. Friends and family were afraid that
    I would collapse or break at any moment.[Pensive] This was the first time that I began
    to realize that something was seriously wrong with the outlook that beauty required being unhealthily thin.  

  • [Hopeful] Realistically,  in 5 years, I'd love to see myself healthy.

    [Pensive] I do have trouble sometimes.
    Sometimes I won't check the scale for weeks, but then I'll check every
    damn day. I'd like to be at a place where I'm
    enjoying life. Not focusing on how many calories I
    eat, or don't eat.

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