RESEARCH FOR DOCUMENTARY

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Justin BieberBieber fever may have caused a parental headache or two, but we don't mind our kids looking up to him (or having crushes on him). He recently took a stand against underage drinking by banning alcohol at his 17th birthday party and he spent his Valentine's Day visiting sick kids at a hospital.

Selena Gomez

The 18-year-old Wizards of Waverly Place star might play a smart-mouthed underachiever on TV, but in real life, she’s anything but. Gomez is also a budding businesswoman with a K-Mart clothing line, which makes sense to us; her impeccable sense of style is always age-appropriate.

Emma Watson  
At just 19, this Harry Potter star was named the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, but instead of letting the fame go to her head, Watson decided to use some of that money to pursue an education at Brown University. 


Teenagers today look up to celebrities for their everyday fashion tips, movies or albums and even their bodies. But what happens when you take looking up to someone to a whole different level? And sometimes very tragic things can happen. When teenagers turn on their televisions and see Lindsay Lohan or Nicole Richie in photos looking frail with all their bones sticking out, that sends out a powerful message.

 



Lindsay Lohan

Nicole Richie

Teens think, "look how beautiful she looks and she's skinny as a stick." They think that just because they are celebs and get comments that they can go and starve themselves to death just to look like them. Knowingly there's a lot of pressure out there for these Hollywood Starlets to stay thin because they think it's in and the fact that they are getting paid major bucks to grace the pages of Elle and Maxim magazine with the hottest bodies on earth. What teens don't reconize is that their bodies take a lot of work and crash dieting to look like that, it's certainly not naturally, we all know that if you want to look hot you have to have work, dedication and pressure which is why some starlets begin to fall downward turning toward eating disorders. Anorexia is a when you starve yourself in order to lose, or maintain your weight.