Author: Laura Mesa

In the last couple of weeks, I have been working on trying to get different groups of people who have openly talked about their eating disorder struggles on social media together to take part in different conversations; however, this has definitely been a struggle. I have reached out to around 50 people, or more, and a couple have gotten back to me. Some of them have been resistant, which I completely understand. Still, it is hard to plan and get people together; however, today I was supposed to meet with two people. They both confirmed, but one didn’t show up, which was stressful; still, I had a very interesting conversation with the other person who did and got a lot of insight. I will talk about this person in a later post. However, I have another meeting this afternoon where about 5 people are going to join for a conversation. However, when I realized many people might not be open to talking or might not have the time, I decided to create a panel so a larger group could interact and share different points of view. I will also be having, or am trying to set up, other focus groups in the coming weeks; it is just very hard to get people together to discuss this subject. Some things go beyond my control because people might say they are showing up and then, last minute, express that they do not feel safe or do not want to connect and don’t let me know; however, I have started to realize that this is a part of the process, and I will continue working on it. This weekend, I am also going to try a field study in the town of Medellin, trying to get people to participate and share how they see this issue. Still, I am moving forward and will keep trying to create different forms of intervention. This has been a very hard process because I have needed to be very careful when talking to these people since they are such a vulnerable group. There are a lot of barriers when talking with them; for example, many are still sharing their journey. Still, they might not be fully recovered, so I have had most of them talk to their therapists. Some haven’t been able to participate or haven’t felt comfortable; others don’t want to talk in a group and have asked me to contact them privately, which I have been doing to make sure they feel safe and not exposed in any way, shape, or form. A lot of them have flat-out said no, and I have thanked them for their time and for responding, wished them luck in their journey, and some people haven’t answered at all. Still, I have tried to stay in the lane of the people who are open to talking to me and trying to make sure that there are no triggers and it is a conversation they feel comfortable with. 

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While scrolling through social media today, I came across a TikTok post that made me think about all the research I’ve done on the backstory of body image and its connection to racism; it is another theory I found interesting and relevant. This explains how for a lot of generations the idea was to be more full figured and to have curves and this was the ideal body for many generations, however in this video the explanation was that this was happening until there was a spread in tuberculosis which during the time this was most common and afterwards women wanted to look skinny and sick the exact words used were, “they wanted to look like they were slowly dying” because people thought that the lines of tuberculosis no matter how bad it was and how many people died from it the women were considered to be more beautiful. After all, it gave them sparkly eyes and rosy cheeks, which is still the idea today; the lines also caused a loss of appetite, which came with a malnourished, thin body. This was unattainable beauty, but it could only be achieved through suffering, a, nd thit waseverely roromanticized and shown as beautiful in different pieces of artwork. For women to achieve this new look, they would take extreme measures: women would take poison, undergo blood withdrawals, and starve themselves. 

It is interesting that this is another point of contention, and that many different factors might lead to this trend because both are true at the same time. I need to research this further because it is important to consider different points of view; however, this might not be as thoroughly researched as the other hypothesis, so that I will look into it further. 

I started to realize that I needed more focus groups in order to gather more information and make sure that whatever I am doing is going to be something that is not overly saturated in this market especially when it comes to South America, I started to look for girls who have been open about their eating disorders or struggles with body image online and I started doing this through tin Tok and have gotten a lot of responses from my original messages I still have not set up a time to do a round table with them there are two groups a group which will speak in Spanish and is of latin origin and another one which will be from English or American organ just because of the fact that there are less women in latin America willing to speak on the subject and more are willing to do it in English and I think it is important to gather as much information as I possibly can I will try to set all of this up even though it will be hard to get a lot of people together and keep on going with it, this week I am also going to be going out and doing field research in the town on Medellin to see the different reactions I might get from different people. I am not going to post the conversations I have had with the people who I have corresponded with because I still don’t have consent from them to use their name and likeness and it is an important step in the process.

One idea I started with was to launch an Instagram, but I needed a name and a logo first to begin planning. I came up with one, but it felt too mature, and I didn’t get much traction with it. Also, the name was “La raiz del cuerpo,” which means the root of the body, and from there I started with a logo where I wanted to incorporate a mirror breaking and having the words outside, and this is what I started with. 

However, the moment I posted it, I realized people wouldn’t understand what I meant. I used Illustrator, and what I was trying to accomplish wasn’t coming through with this logo, so I started thinking about other ideas. I also realized it didn’t look professional, and it didn’t capture people’s attention or make them think about what it was. I even got a lot of questions asking me what it was and why I started this. Then I realized this is something I mostly want to do for Latin America; however, if I wanted it to reach internationally or with different audiences, I needed to make it bilingual, which is where I came up with “Cuerpo undefined” as the name of the account. I also started thinking about the colors I wanted to use. I thought I might want to add periwinkle, a mix of purple and blue, because it is the color used for eating disorder awareness. I started working on it, but earlier that day I was with a family friend of my parents who is a publicist and told me we could make the logo better and that she could help me. I started by sending her another design, 

However, she told me something else we could do first: she looked at the feedback a lot and thought the text might have been hard to read. The main thing I heard was that it looked sad compared to the options this publicist gave me; her name is Lena Garcia. 

She gave me this two ideas and I gave people around me the option and to tell me which one they preferred there were a lot of mixed opinions, some people told me that the option in black and white looks sad and as if it was not a winning battle however the gold one looked more inspirational as a movement however other people thought that it looked a little like something you would see as a logo for a protein shake which I also thought was a valid point however the publicist and her partner who is also a publicist thought that the gold one would be better and get more traction. After I changed the name and logo, I got a lot more traction, and people started to look more at the page even though I am just starting it. I am not sure what tools this publicist used but there might be some AI usage but I am not sure I am going to have to ask her and give back the answer in order to show the tools that were used but the final logo was her creation which we collaborated in.

For this intervention I decided to work with a focus group or a group circle where I was able to get the people thinking about different subjects when it comes to body image today and have them feed of each other as well as seeing different perspectives, I decided to have it be people who are parents and have had several young girls in their lives and between all of them I was able to grab an older woman in her 80s and even though she was never a mother she helped raise her nieces from a very young age and they consider her like a mother. I was able to speak to two fathers, one of them being in a more mature age and having had two granddaughters as well, and him being heavily involved in their lives. Afterward, I gathered three mothers’ perspectives on my questions; however, this was a workshop I did in Spanish because the participants do not speak English, so that I will be teaching the original documents as well as the English translations to the best of my abilities. I had them all sign a consent form stating they were okay with answering the questions in Spanish, and I will also attach a picture of the document with all their signatures. This was supposed to take place on August 8. Still, some people in this group couldn’t make it, but asked if they could participate or answer the questions the day before, and I let them since it was important to them and they thought it was important to look at the subject through different lenses. 

These were the questions they were asked to answer, and they talked through them internally, with answers shared discreetly.

• The first question is: as a parent to girls, how do you feel your own relationship with your bodies affects them, and how do you feel you could improve this?
• What tools have you used or started using to help your daughters build a good relationship with their bodies?
• What do you think is the biggest problem that girls have when it comes to their relationship with their bodies? With your experience, not just your daughter, how do you see it around you?

• TRANSLATION   –

I will use the information I find today for my master’s investigations. If at any point you feel unsafe or insecure, or you decide to stop participating in the activity, you have every right to tell me not to use what I find today as data now. 

I’m using this activity to update my database and see how I can help people who are struggling with food, as well as how people feel about their bodies and body image. 

I will use this information for research and share it with my professors and classmates in my master’s program. 

I really appreciate your cooperation in this project. If you agree with all that is written here, please sign below to give your consent. 

• DAVID ESCOBAR   –

He is a man in his mid-forties and has lived in Colombia his entire life. He is a father to two young girls; one is 14, and the other is 8. He was very inspiring and gave detailed answers. 

• TRANSLATION   –

1. Being affected not necessarily if something I would say that it is more of a situation of them seeing us compare ourselves with others, It is more connected now days with the media, this is where the comparison beginnings, today appearances are more important than health and wellness, mind body, I have never felt superior or inferior depending on my appearance or body weight, however I try to stay normal in my eating habits. 

Trying to talk with my children about the subject makes me think that they make the subject of eating habits and preferences more about the trends and not their own personal taste, I have made it clear that they should eat everything and after they have tasted it they can decide whether it is good or bad and this does not give the child a prejudice about food and what they should or should not eat. 

The most important point to get across is confidence: they are allowed to be themselves and enjoy life. 

2. The best tools in my concept or opinion is the “option” and knowing how to mage them, today young people can choose a lot of material when it comes to their nutrition and eating habits, I try to give them diversity in food, balancing everything between protein, vegetables and carbohydrates because a lot of times the trends of foods that are deemed healthy “healthy marketing” ends up creating a narrative on foods “supposedly healthy” that are not actually healthy. 

The best tool is diversity and teaching them how to eat and enjoy without fear of what might happen later. When it comes to sugar, I place a lot of emphasis on my younger daughter, who ikes sweets more from time to time; sometimes she takes it too far, so I make space to discuss how any excess, at some point, comes back to you. You pay for the habits you have had at some point. 

3. For me the problem is more focused in the subject of classification or ranking according to someone’s body shape or size in some place, young people today have access to media where there is a trend on fitness which to me is a ridiculous concept, the exaggerated form of exercise and nutrition “supposedly balanced” makes young people in a constant race which is a struggle or a challenge in their day to day life, which limits them in certain ways about their food and their nutrition the biggest problem are the ultraprocessed foods which are not highly consumed in my household, but when they are consumed or eaten in excess they have a price. Some parents buy into fitness trends, which can shift their children’s nutrition in ways that affect growth and development. 

• I try to teach them to eat a bit of everything, I teach them to try everything so they can decide if they like it or not, I try to explain to them what every single food is for protein in form of energy and nutrition, and let them choose but under a certain parameter which is clear in its perspectives not only because of trends and their group of friends but by their value and personal concept. 
• CIELO TOBON  –

This is a mature woman in her late 60s who’s lived in Colombia and has never lived outside Colombia. She is part of an all-women family; her daughter has two grandchildren, as well as 5 nieces and great-nieces.

• TRANSLATION   –

1. When it comes to their relationship with their bodies, many changes can affect them; nowadays we can see personality changes, their form of being, and their behavior, which are different. It can improve through dialogue and patience from the parents. 

2. Having good relationships with our children, having enough books, and we also have help from psychologists. 

3. Lack of information also affects parents who are not on top of their children. 

• Julio Toro   –

Julio Toro is a man in his 70s. He is Cielo’s husband, and like her, he has never lived outside of Colombia but has traveled. He shares Cielo’s family history and has biological nieces who are his brothers’ daughters. 

• TRANSLATION   –

1. In today’s day and age of modernism, the model of women is affecting the mental health of our young people. All the girls need to be beautiful and have a very good body; this affects them and makes them spend most of their time trying to model their bodies. 

2. We try to make it so that it does not affect them a lot, trying to love them and care for them as much as possible, but in society all of their classmates are the ones that have the greatest influence on their behaviors.

3. They all have to be thin, skinny, and beautiful. You have to do almost the impossible so the mental models don’t affect them. However, even if this is happening, we have to help them build a good friendship with themselves and share as much as we can to build strong communication.

• LENA GARCÍA   –

Lena is a woman in her mid-40s. She has always lived in Colombia but has moved between Medellín, one of the big cities, and the capital, Bogotá, which may give her a different perspective. She has also been a woman who has always struggled with her body image, and she has a daughter who is 12. 

• TRANSLATION   –

½. We are up against a society that still bases itself on the perfect body to belong, and even though there is education that we try to implement with our daughter, which is inclusion “accept herself as well as others as they are” it is difficult. Still, it gives her a point of view of acceptance with her own body. Building her confidence in her appearance and supporting her through the difficulties in her circle give her tools that build security and decision-making power when it comes to things like society and her opinions. 

3. The high level of information that we face in social media means there are no filters; even though we try to block some information through parental control, they end up in a fantasy of a made-up reality of “this is what you should do and how you should act”.

• ROSILVIA TOBON   –

This woman is nearing her 80s and has been out of Colombia very few times. She has always lived in Medellín; she was not a mother, but she helped raise all her nieces and great-nieces, and her nieces consider her one of their mothers because they even lived in the same household growing up.

• TRANSLATION   –

1. I think that, as the aunt that I am, since I have nieces, I lead by example with the confidence I have in myself. I help them with their own self-worth. When they see me taking care of myself, they will take better care of themselves as well. 

2. A tool they can use is the respect of the image. 

3. The probability that girls will see a lot of information on social media and relate it to their body means there has to be a lot of caution with the things that they see and talk about when it comes to their appearance.

• ALEJANDRO CALERO   – 

This is a man in his mid-forties who has lived in two cities in Colombia. He works as a publicist for some of Colombia’s major brands. He has a teenage daughter and an adult son reaching his 20s. He has experience living in both a large city, the capital, and a smaller but still big city, Cali, where he grew up. 

• TRANSLATION   –

1. Relationship with their bodies

Often, the fact of growing up around other girls makes them feel insecure about their height and body, which can make it hard to enjoy activities and lose weight. 

• What can I do?

We always have conversations about making them conscious of different subjects:

• Body development
• Nutrition and well-being 
• Full knowledge of their bodies, keeping in mind that my daughter is just 12 years old.
• Interior and their own beliefs. 

1. Tools

• Genetics apps.
• Movies and documentaries about conscious nutrition.
• Courses and improvisation of healthy cooking.
• Yoga/Spa/ quality time with mom to acknowledge their growth.

1. Problems with the girls and their relationship with their body

• Over information

The girls and boys today have way too many role models, and they suffer from the oversaturation of the messages out there because of the culture and the people around them. As adults, we should always be accompanying them in these arenas. 

Nutrition and its components can cause girls to develop prematurely. This is something that should be looked at and guided by public health care because of the number of girls without access to and resources for special care and specialized information. 

Cultural beliefs are so strong that they make young girls need to look a certain way and have very set interpretations in the development of their bodies. 

• CATALINA TORO   –

She is a woman in her mid-forties who has always lived in Medellín and has two daughters who are very different ages: one is 8, and the other is 14, and she is always talking about her body. 

• TRANSLATION   – 

1. My relationship with my body has a direct correlation with my daughters because, as I start saying thoughts out loud, for example, “I look fat or skinny…” I can generate insecurity in my daughters and take away an idea of “a prototype of an ideal body”
2. I have incorporated good nutrition habits, don’t demonize certain foods, and stay flexible and balanced with sugar and fats. 
3. The biggest problem is social media and the “sale of the ideal body”.

MY THOUGHTS AND INTERPRETATION: 

• One of the first thoughts that came up when I was going through all of the different peoples answers was the fact that the people that went deeper in their answers were actually the fathers in this situations and not the moms and when I made not of it one of the mothers reaction was that fathers are never on top of a daughters appearance that it is a mothers job to be on top of it, this was Cielo who is an older woman and she had her daughter have breast augmentations when she was a teenager and has had cosmetic work done herself so maybe this is the example she is setting or she find this to be very important maybe this is her set of beliefs. However, this connects to what Julio said later in the conversation. I actually have a voice recording of his conclusion with his consent. He talks about the fact that cosmetic surgeons have made a fortune around women’s insecurities and made them think they have to look a certain way to make money, and this is why there is such pressure when it comes to their bodies. 
• One of the main points which I think all of the participants agree on is the fact that there is a very large issue when it comes to social media and all the different examples that young girls have when it comes to bodies and looking for a perfect body but I think that people in the media romantacise their lives and act as if it were natural and easy since they are in the media. Still, there is a lot behind the scenes that we are not aware of. 
• Another interesting point is that the older individuals wrote less and were less active in the conversation; it was as if they were less willing to participate and look at the insight,t, almost as if they were scared to go deeper into the conversation. 
• Another interesting thing was that only two people talked about food, and they noted that we need to stop the idea that some foods are good and others are bad; instead, we should tell them to be careful with certain foods. Still, there is other media out there that even rejects this and talks about the fact that we should let children learn by themselves not just telling them but letting them learn that a lot of a certain food might give you problems with your stomach or make you feal ill however I am not sure if we will ever find a correct answer for this because of the amount of opinions out there and how there are so many doctors with diverse opinions in the media. One thing is for sure: if you don’t have the credentials to talk about food and haven’t done an extensive study, you shouldn’t talk about the approach to it. 
• Older people in this group talked more about the pressure around people your own age and the society around them, specifically in school, and this made me wonder if they felt this when they were much younger. 
• There was a lot of talk about confidence and being able to speak about anything with their children, especially how they are feeling about their body and being open to them about the realities around them, and seeing a lot more information when it comes to telling them that what they see out in the world is what is normal and seeing the different ways in which things can happen. 

I have had one of what I would consider a great breakthrough or a great step towards my project, having contacted Dr. Sabrina Springs a couple of weeks ago. Dr. Sabrina Springs is one of the central people I have been researching throughout my entire investigation. Several contacts have told me it would be very important to look at her work. I was able to secure a meeting, which will take place on August 17th. I will start preparing for that conversation this week because I want to make sure I am as prepared as possible. If she is giving me her time, it is important that I am as prepared as possible and can keep working on everything that I want moving forward. I think this will be a crucial step because one of the main things I want to accomplish is to shed light on all the information she has already created. After all, only a select number of people have read her work, and it is very important and has been central to my investigation, which makes it incredible that I will actually get to meet with her. 

Since my last tutorial with Zuleinka, I have been working on figuring out what different forms I want to start doing more interventions in because I have been more focused on the research aspect. It has been a struggle to actually start working on my interventions however I understand that this is what makes a masters a masters and not an undergrad and this is why I now it is an important step in the journey, I am going to start today to do a sort of social media strategy which will be more done on research and different ideas to start preparing my audience for what is coming because I feel as if it is a very hard subject to approach but that is the whole point. I have been reaching out to a lot of different people, and I have been rejected or told no to collaborations, which I am aware is part of the process, but at the same time I have had other people start to reach out. I am now going to start a social media campaign as part of my intervention, but I am still in the very early stages. I am going to be working on this for a while, while continuing to reach out, do interviews, and look for people I could collaborate with, all while implementing my own creative practice into this Instagram. I will continue to work on this. I am also going to be in Colombia, where I will have the opportunity to talk to many more people and see different ways I could pivot the ideas I am already bringing to the table. I am going to use this social media platform to educate people on different subjects and get them thinking and interacting. I plan to have some forms as well, and I am going to keep on working on this at the same time. I am also looking to speak to different people who have gone through these struggles. I really want to do something I spoke of with Zuleinka about having different people who feel they do not have the opportunity to be beautiful to be seen as beautiful by maybe getting them to help me create a fashion line which they would feel the most comfortable in and seen as beautiful and the most confident and do a shoot to represent this but this is an evolving idea and will continue to learn and see different ways in which this might change. 

I met Ezgi through one of my peers in the master’s program, Defne, who is one of her friends. She told me how she changed her view of life by doing this experiment, and I asked her to share her experience; she was happy to, which shows me the effect social media might have on young girls. This girl decided to delete all of her social media for a month, except for Snapchat,e to keep in contact with her close friends because this was her form of communication. She started doing it specifically because she was addicted to social media and was always doomscrolling, which led to a large amount of procrastination and left her without time to do anything else. She spent all of her time on social media, and that is why she deleted it to be more present because she started to develop body dysmorphia. After moving to London, she noticed some changes in her body. Now everyone is on Ozempic, which led to her seeing a lot of unrealistic bodies, and the more she gained weight, the more she saw people getting skinnier. She started to consume this type of media; this led to her feeling depressed because she felt everyone had the perfect body and she was fat. Still, she started thinking that skinny fat was the new fat, and she was not even this, but this is how she felt, and as if she should see a doctor, and felt as if she was overweight when she was actually of normal weight, and she was worried. Every time she would like herself in an outfits and she would look at her phone and this girls with their bodies she would look at the mirror and feel as if she was larger and that was why clothing did not look good on her which lead to her stoping wearing the outfits she wanted to wear because she presided herself as fat and after deleting social media she had more time to be taking care of her body and dealing with the addiction to scrolling. She realized that she stopped snacking and would eat even if she knew she was full, and she had issues with bingeing. Maybe it was because she was determined to lose weight that she started to restrict herself, but she did not crave anything, which was weird for her. The best thing is that now that she does not see these girls on social media, she started to feel more confident in her body because she was not exposed to unobtainable bodies all the time; she does not have that reminder on her phone. She thinks everyone is having filler faces and having a lot of work done on their bodies as well; it is now a different beauty standard. She feels as if she has to do all of this and look like these girls as well. She is now more mindful of how social media affects her and realizes that these girls are only showing their best moments. It was good to get a break and talk about how easy it is to get lost in social media. Going through this and hearing about her experience, I think a lot of girls have this same issue and think a lot about comparisons with other people on social media, and one important thing is to understand that this is these girls’ job; it is their career, and that is also why they look the way they do. 

During the last couple of weeks, I have really tried to reach out to different organizations that help with eating disorders and body image, specifically in Latin America, which I want to be my main focus of study. I was able to get in contact with this organization in Argentina called the “Fundación Nuevo Rumbo.” They were very quick to respond. I did not have time to obtain written consent, but I received verbal consent from Mauro, the person I spoke with, about using what they explained in our conversation for my blog. I am still in contact with them and plan to have a more formal conversation. The first thing that he explained to me is that this is not necessarily an eating disorder clinic. Still, it is a rehab center for different kinds of addiction; this includes alcohol and drugs, but they also treat people who have problems with food on a lot of sides of the spectrum. Something I have noticed is that a lot of places, specifically in Latin America, have this included in their form of eating disorders as addictions. They are treated the same way in centers such as this, which I find a hard approach because everyone is treated the same or lumped together when their issues might be very unique. I think this is a gap in Latin America, since many countries use the same system, and in Europe there are more specialized clinics. One of the most important things that he talks about is that they are not an organization that does outreach; they are a treatment center. They start by giving patients a structured program, which means they have specific hours when they are expected to eat, as well as the type of food, to help them decentralize and do it themselves; they take away that choice to give them more order. Then they start to integrate different forms of motivation to get them to want to get better and improve their health. Secondly, they want the family to be involved and to be part of the motivation for them to get better because they are trying, through different forms of therapy, to get the people who are part of their program involved; there is a lot of family therapy. They are instrumental to the recovery of the individual. Later on, after they have taken part in the program with different professionals such as psychodrama treatments, psychiatrists, therapists, and many more experts in the field to try to deal with the root of the issue, which is their goal, what they do is that they take the steps to reintegrate them into regular society. What they want to do through this entire process is to get to the root of the limiting thoughts that cause addictive behaviors in whatever shape or form they come in. They also look a lot at the issues surrounding social stigma because people feel very embarrassed that they have issues such as this one and that they do not know how to handle them. After all, their entire lives they have been told that they need to keep it together and that nobody can find out. One of the other things I asked them about is the difficulties that they face as an organization. They are a private foundation, which means that they run as a business; they do not get any funding from the state. They find that the greatest difficulty they have is paperwork and bureaucracy because sometimes people need treatment and at that exact moment, not later on. Bureaucracy gets in the way and makes things take longer than they should, but this is a greater issue. 

I had my individual tutorial with Zuleika last week, and I had been feeling a little stuck about what I wanted to do. She helped me find ways to unlock this and gave feedback on some of the work I had done so far. One of the main things she told me was that when one is feeling stuck, one should always go back to the research question and look at what you originally wanted to do; however, I explained to her that my research question is still a work in progress, and I was still working on it since, after my tutorial with Diana, she had told me I needed to complete a couple of changes. One of the main things that was discussed was that I really wanted to create an intervention or project in which I was able to express my creative freedom aswell as having people better understand the root cause of eating disorders and body image and one thing that is really important to me is to make sure that the people I am working with feel safe and as if their story is being told looking at all this means I want to create something with some educational support. The idea of the question she gave me was “How can better knowledge or education about the history of eating disorders and body image thin culture help people feel safer in their bodies?” I still need to think it through and make sure it aligns with the stance I want to take, but this will keep changing. One of the main things we discussed is that people with larger bodies are often given opportunities to see themselves in a beautiful way, and this might be something I want to explore. One of the pieces of feedback she gave me for feeling stuck is to make some small interventions to generate new ideas and consider different perspectives, but I need to be careful to keep myself and my participants safe. One of the main points I came out of with this conversation is that I need to discover or make sure I am sure that I know what I want to do and write it out in as much detail as humanly possible in order to get different kinds of approval from the ethics board, one of the small interventions I could do is through social media or even on the street with asking questions. I really thought this tutorial helped me look at things from a different perspective and made me think about different ideas of what I should do in the coming weeks.