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  • what does she expect!! she bought her mirror

    from the circus

  • The whole point of having a non-fat girl trying to play a fat girl is to point out that people with anexoria may even view normal girls as fat girls. It adds to the message of the advertisement.

    That girl is beautiful.

  • it´s a swedish commercial

  • i think the girl in the mirror is really pretty!

  • i'd LOVE the mirror girls figure!

  • what song is this ????

  • @oranges1214 The song is Sæglópur (Lost At Sea) by Icelandic post-rock band called Sigur Rós.

  • The real person scared me :(

  • My reaction

    Me: The girl in the mirror is really pretty! I would like to look like her :)

    *shows real person*

    Me: HOLY SH*T! *shivers* I'm scared now!

  • @7132504 No she isn't. She probably couldn't squeeze that much flesh, it was just effects. Besides, she lookes normal sized to me.

  • I've spent my life suffering with anorexia and bulimia. This is one, possibly THE, most hard hitting adverts.

    And being honest, until you have an ED, you can't judge at ALL. It's ruined my life, along with self harm. I was depressed at 10, it ruined my childhood. This advert is brilliant at raising awareness.

    Stay strong<3

  • What is the name of the song, I can't find out anywhere?

  • @cathy1123 Saeglopur by sigur ros

  • I'm gonna by my sister one of those fun-house mirrors for her birthday. Hopefully she'll starve herself to death too. Lol! :D

  • @VincentBrooke1 How is that funny?

  • @TheBlahBlahNews 'Cause I don't like my sister... :P

  • @VincentBrooke1 Wow, real funny. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ShakiraWannaPickle You're welcome. I also do children's parties...

  • @VincentBrooke1 Ok, seriously? Theres so many things i could say to you but i wont.

  • @ShakiraWannaPickle Go ahead, feel free. You're out of my punching distance, safe and sound. Go on, I dares ya. Gimme your best shot! :D

  • You are perfect the way you are,

    If someone is supposed to like you, they will for who you are,

    They wont care if your fat or thin.

    Don't care if your ft or not, If the doctor says your fit for your age, as in weight, stay that weight.

  • The girl in the mirrors body was perfect o_o

    I saw nothing wrong with it.

  • i thought the thinner woman was pretty

  • i feel sorry the girl i the mirror was used as the fat version

  • Sad. But why are they doing these types of videos while obesity is the NO. 1 problem in AMerica?

    1. obesity

    2. drug abuse, alcoholism, tobacco

    3. diabetes, cardiovascular problems

    eating disorders cannot top the lists.

  • She was really beautiful in the mirror.. My friend had anorexia.. She looked like that, and she got bullied alot by the older girls, saying she was fat, and could just ignore the cake-shop for a while.. We had the summer holidays, and when school started.. She was so skinny, and alot of people in my class had already talked to the teacher about it. The teacher called her parents, who called a phyciolog (Not sure how to write it) and 2months later, she had put on another extra 10kilograms. ;)

  • what pisses me off is that they should at least make the reflections someone who is actually fat. that girl has a flat stomach and no cellulite..

  • @7132504 you are a total arse! omg i rarely get this angry about comments! you hav no idea what it is like to look in the mirror everyday and be repulsed by what you see! the girl in the mirror is beautiful! she is a real person....not an airbrushed model splattered across the pages of a mindless magazines! it is fascists like you who lead girls to believe that they have to starve themselves to death just to be told they're pretty

  • a lot of you are commenting that the girl isnt 'fat'> thats the point-its about how you see yourself- someone with an eating disorder might see themselves as really overweight when in fact they are at a normal BMI - or a lot smaller than that.A lot of people with bulimia are in fact at a normal weight.

  • Thats so sad :( The girl in the mirror is beauifull <3 the reality is horrifiying, Im 12 years old and im 11 stone D: i want to be 9 stone, i would never turn into an anorexic or even close, I LOVE FOOD but i seriously need to lose some weight :(

  • @BLUEloveSPARKLE dont worry it all depends on your height as well :) <3

  • it makes me sad because thats how i see myself in the mirror, but i really am fat. i really am. People tell me im skinny but i see myself in my reflection and i know i am. Im sick of my weight. but i will never do that to myself

  • @7132504 You're an attention whore who probably doesn't actually have an eating disorder of any kind.

  • Hey do you have the whole song of this in the instumental version? If so please could you send me the link for it caz i cant find it anyway. many thanks x

  • Hey do you have the whole song of this in instrumental version? If so please could you give it to me caz i cant find it anyway. many thanks x

  • So Sad :'(

  • The girl in the mirror had an amazing stunning body, and to think this really does happen is so sad ): 

  • does anyone know where I can find the upload of a video, in it there's this rapper (I think he's actually an american comedian but I'm not sure) he's young and he's on a talk show and he raps about anorexia and mentions how he finds his curvey girlfriend beautiful he talks about natural beauty and how you shouldn't starve, it was really good, you should all see it :( I can't find it, is it still up?

  • @TorysApollo Yeaahh i think i know what your talkin about .. search up; Timothy De La Ghetto - Insecure Girls .. check it out :)

  • @MsHaimen It wasn't him I was talking about, but this guys really good too!!! :)

  • Love this music

  • @MickeyLove01 I agree! It's so amazing! I have it on my ipod :)

  • @TheMaggot870621345 :O do you know what the song's called?

  • @hautenarcissism It's called Saeglopur by Sigur Ros. (I think that's how its spelt!). I can send it to you if you message me your email address if you like.

  • i like bigger girls becaseu there soo soft ;)

  • I saw the girl in the mirror and said "She's beautiful." Why is she playing a "fat" character? shes perfect just the way she is.

  • @dancemusiclife996 I;m probably wrong but maybe she's playing the fat girl because she isn't really fat herself either and they're making a point about it? I'm not sure :/

  • @dancemusiclife996 she's not playing someone "fat" she's playing someone healthy.

  • @hannahdianee the way i always thought of it, people who have this disorder think of themselves as fat. so i was thinking when she looked in the mirror she was supposed to see someone "fat" but that girl isn't at all

  • @dancemusiclife996 That's the point

  • @dancemusiclife996 i think thats part of the point they're making

  • @dancemusiclife996 - The point is that she isn't 'fat.'

  • Wow. I wonder how accurate this is? I wonder what what the difference is between what we see, and what is actually there?

  • Hey guys

    I would like some advice, if you could

    II don't like to diagnose myself, as I do not have the ability to do so, so I'll say that I'm 100% possitive I have bulimia, for four years. I won't go into detail, but obviously I do everything a bulimic would do.

    And I want a diagnosis, I want to see a doctor.

    Is this me over reacting?

  • @jaydeigh28 nopee, it is normal to be worried..i say go for it, go see a doctor. Hope that helps

  • @jaydeigh28 Absolutly not! If you are the doctor will tell you. If you have the possibility to obtain medical attention for your condition then got get it, fast!

  • @jaydeigh28 Don't ask for advice in youtube land.

  • @MickeyLove01 Oh I will deffiently take your.. umm.. advice!? duh.

  • @jaydeigh28 Good for you. I am a little busy so I can't give attention to those who crave it either, sorry.

  • I have lost 40lbs in 3 months.

    I have gone from 5'5" and 215lbs to 175lbs. I want to be 99lbs

    *sigh*

    I know I'm being stupid and dangerous about it. I know I should care that I'm slowly killing myself.... sometimes I do care. But the voice in my head overrides that most of the time.

    I feel horrible for eating.

  • @Sarahrosebello hey i know. me too! im 'ana' too. and im 115 right now. i was 130, im headed for 100 im 5'6" im a gymnast and want to be skiniest on the team. its hard. :/ but you said exactly how i feel.

  • @somegymnastgurl

    I don't even do sports :(

    I don't have time. I hit 168.

    You can message me if you want, I can give you my aim/msn/email and we can talk :)

    *hugs*

  • @Sarahrosebello I'm a 130. I was 168 I'm headed to 78lbs because I really want to be that skinny.

    I know what it is like. And though I want to stop this starving myself, purging and taking laxatives, I cant stop.

    If you need someone to talk to, I'm here.

  • @killkrissiez

    163 now.... I want to be 99. I have never purged except through restriction, because I know I get addicted to stuff (like cutting), and I know that purging is even more dangerous.

    I don't know if I can stop. I don't know if I want to stop.

  • @Sarahrosebello You dont want to stop hurting yourself? I dont have anything against you, im just trying to understand you..tell me..

  • @jammidodgaa

    I don't want to stop doing this because even though it's hurting myself I'm losing weight.

    I'm getting compliments.

    Also, it's like cutting. It's hurting myself but I feel better after (in the short run)

  • @Sarahrosebello I understand..

  • Right now I'd just be happy to look like the girl in the mirror.

  • This doesn't seem helpful since they are portraying the girl in the mirror as a gross exaggeration of what the anorexic girl is supposed to see. In actuality, the girl in the mirror is healthy.

  • I think the girl in the mirror is super sexy. She had great thighs.... I'd kill for boobs and hips like that....it isn't sexy to look like a 9 year old boy naked.

  • @annaliese24 Agree but I don't think anorexic girls are trying to be sexy.

  • im the girl in the mirror yuck :( .

  • @courtneysweeney16 really ??why da sad face inoe girls would kill. . .to have dat body[[:

  • the chik in the mirror was chuby .. im being nice she was really chuby ... i mean fat

  • I hate my body. I have little OCD habits, like trying to look like the anorexic girl in that. I'm nowhere near close to that, but I will get there.

  • dude the girl in the mirror wasn't fat, she looked average maybe even more, but the skinny skinny one, fuck that

  • That was really sad <:( It's even worse to think some girls actually feel that way. And guys too, for that matter.

  • I want to look pretty, so it ry not to eat. I'm 12 years old and I have absolutely no self esteem. I weigh 114 pounds and am 5'5-5'6 everyone else my height is 100 pounds or less, and no boy in my grade has ever liked me. I've never been crushed on. My life is an endless pit of despare. I'm worried about how I will lookw hen I come to teh age of 20. About whether I'll be thin, or pretty, or have any freinds left TT-TT fml

  • @AmritBD you're a 12 for god's sake! Don't start that! eating disorders are so incredible bad!! Belive me I'm bulimic and anorexic!

  • @AmritBD First of all, you're 5'6 and 114. im 5'7 and 125 and I have been been told a million times that i should be a model. and i am 125. 125, got it? FUCK what boys think. you said it, theyre BOYS. REAL MEN care about a personality not a body. Those people you say that are your height and weigh less than 100, must look like skeletons, and if i was a boy, i wouldn't want to make love to BONES. id want some meat on my ribs. Sweetie, you're 12, live you're childhood. ur beautiful the way u r <3

  • @AmritBD you think you have it bad,im 12,5'5-5'6,and weigh 156. 156!!!! i've been bullied because of it and hate to go shopping for clothes,and there have been days where i hate myself so much i try to stop eating,but i look at these ads,and im scared,im scared of my future,so i just hope the bullying dosn't get worst in 7th grade...

  • @AmritBD ok while its a bit wrong saying this t a 12yr old ur fat will move to more fun places and u will have a set of cruves dat will make men forget that they can talk

  • @AmritBD troll

  • @AmritBD Just eat a healthier diet and excercise. Don't starve yourself.

  • cardboard person thats scary

  • i appreciate the comments saying that the girl in the mirror is beautiful, because i have the same body type, and i was feeling a little self conscious, now i feel great! :D thanks sooo much~!

  • I cried when I saw this because i had a eating disorder that made me eat too much. I thne went anorexic, but then i relized that i really was skinny, because after four months of anorexia, I never lost weight. I was the same weight starving myself as i was eating too much. I was already skin and bones, and still i'm made fun of for being fat.....

  • the girl in the mirror has a beautiful body! and when it zoomed out to the anorexic girl, i gasped.

  • that was scary. and sad.

  • She looks like Hayley Hasselfoff...am i the only one that thinks that?!

  • I'd hit both of them

  • I can totally relate to this video i had/ have an eating disorder. i went to a rehab facilty for 3 weeks and am currently in recovery. People need to realized eating disorders are NOT a choice, they are a DISEASE. you can't truly understand what one is unless you've had one to know what it does to your mind. Girls out there love your body and don't let ED ruin your life, because i can tell you from experience and right now in the process with my nutrionst to gain weight it sucks!

  • I would tap that

  • Ok Im alone in my basement and I got kinda freaked out watching the end.

  • Great message for young girls: body shame and eating disorders are only tragic if you're skinny.

  • @eljagg01 no that's not what they are trying to do they are trying to show people what someone with an eating disorder thinks of themself. i have an eating disorder and am currently in recovery and unless you've had one you have no idea what this DISEASE does to your mind...

  • @shadowdodo12 your mind is gone actually... some people (me too) describe it as voices..have you ever heard about ana and mia?

  • @germanpartygirl93 no i haven't

  • @eljagg01 and yes they are a little more tragic if you are EXTREMELY thin i'm not saying their not tragic if you are at a normal weight or above and stuff, but when you get down so low you could die, i almost did. the thinner you are though with it it is more tragic because i could have had a heart attack in my sleep that's what they told me anytime and i am young

  • Thanks for posting this advert, it's really poignant but so true..

  • What is the name of the song on this video? x

  • @Xtinahosso Sæglópur by Sigur Rós.

  • @Xtinahosso saeglopur by sigur ros They're amazing. :D

  • that scared me. i think everybody should be happy wiht there bodys especally at younger ages xx

  • What's the music?

  • @jacobswolfgirl112 saeglopur- sigur ros

  • @Rinotanashi

    Is there one that doesn't have singing in it?

  • i look just like the girl in the mirroor so just emagn how do i see myself

  • this is disturbing :/

    anorexia sucks, BIG TIME

  • if you have to ask someone on youtube if you have an eating disorder, you probably have an eating disorder.

  • yes could some one tell me if i have eating disorder?

  • I know this IS THE REAL commercial that they had out for awhile, but the girl that see's herself in the mirror is maybe slightly chunky, this vid is SUPPOSED to help girls, what are girls supposed to think when they see their body image in the mirror as FAT?!?!?!?

  • @Ceraphinas are you stoops? the girl is stick thin and convinced she's a little pudgy, it's her percieved body image when in truth she's a fucking stick.

  • the girl in the mirror has such a pretty face... its sad.

  • The girl in the mirror has an amazing body, i wish i looked like that, shes not too skinny, not too fat, she looks great! I love the background music aswell, whats it called?

  • It's painful to watch this :(

    I know what it's like to be the girl in front of the mirror. It's hell.

  • who knows the background music, i love it can someone tell me who have wrighted it?

  • saeglopur sigur ros

  • sigur ros-saeglopur

  • The girl in mirror is Chubby and thts suits her. She is okay.

  • @MovieGirlNextDoor What utter shit

  • (vomits) fucking hell!!!

  • that girl in the mirror had a beautiful body

  • yes because it is a healthy looking body. i could never live looking that way but for those who can, good on them. they have good self esteem

  • yeah she's hot :O

  • @RainbowMonkey43  exactly!!

  • it doesnt affect me. i dont know why. i try to tell myself what im doing isnt right. but it doesnt work

  • i reallty want to do an ed awareness 2010 video how do u find all these clips for free?

  • whats the song called?

  • saeglopur by sigur ros

    xxx

  • Sigur ros is a musical genius =]

  • @ViCkeEyBabe watch the music video to the song;; its really cool .

  • i even thought that the girl in the mirror was skinny!

  • @Krissa345 If she feels that shape when she's a skeleton, imagine how fat she feels being a healthy weight.

  • good god.

  • This is an amazing video. It should affect anyone who watches it

  • wow...im speechless

  • How do her thighs touch in the mirror but not in real life, wouldnt she know they dont touch by looking down? Im asking this because im just trying to understand how the mind works with anorexia, and how they see themselves.

  • @SincerelyJustine it's not that it's an optical illusion. It's her mind, telling her that she's fat because of low selfesteem.

  • @SincerelyJustine: It's extremely difficult to understand body distortions unless you have them. what you see in the mirror is not the same as what you really are, which is so frustrating. I see myself as much larger than my sister, but when I try her pants on they fall off of me. for people with true BDD (and not just bad body image) what you see isn't real.

  • She doesn't actually see that image in the mirror - it's that the one she does see (the real reflection) she judges to be just the same as a regular person would the girl in the mirror. It shows the audience how a person suffering from anorexia views things differently.

  • Holy shit...

  • does anyone know this song ??? in the advert its really moving and good campaign advert which actually shows how people with eating disorders etc see them selfs .

  • the song is by sigur ros, its called saeglopur.

  • EMUmonster,I cant believe u could b so heartless i've been there myself n u dont ask 4 help coz u think that u can control it!da mind is a very scary thing,u dont c urself the way other's c u,u dont c da bones all you see is fat nd if dats all u c someone saying to u ur not fat isnt gna just change ur mind coz u c something totally different 2 them,people dont choose 2 b dis way it starts of by eating dat little bit less nd turns into an unstoppable ilness,

  • the girl who thought she was fat wasnt even fat she just had curves

  • wow the music that goes with this vid makes it even more heartbreakable

  • That is Disturbing

  • do boys accually prefer girls that are skinny

  • @cheers123jojo oh ok, well im sure boys would just LOVE to go out with a girl who is all bony and scary. Yep, ur right, boys would totally like to date the girl in front of the mirror in that vid.

  • that is disturbing

  • I used to be anorexic.. and i have moments when i slip back into it .. i love and hate this advert because i also have body dismorphic disorder so i always see myself as bigger.. but its not somethign you choose you think i went oh yeah i want to be repulsed by food, i want to feel sick when i think about it ..no it just happens so stop judging people you pricks

  • this is just terrible, i feel so bad. but sorry to tell u, women are bitches to eachother. specially models and shit. media and even men contribute to this. its a lot of ppls fault that women have to think that being that skinny is good looking. to all u women out there, it truly isnt.

  • thats so incredibly sad.

  • I understand the point of this ad, but I still hate it. Know why? People with anorexia are very thin but think they are fat. Therefore, the girl in the mirror is supposed to represent "fat." Well, she's not fat. She looks fine. Maybe there wouldn't be such a problem with eating disprders if we didn't tell girls that they are fat if they look like the girl in the mirror.

  • Dude its a mental problem. Obviously normal people aren't going to understand

  • This girl in the mirror is cute. I wouldn't have such a girlfriend like the skinny one.

  • I agree the curvy girl is much better looking than the real girl looking in the mirror.

  • You obviously don't know anything about it, there's a lot more to it than just not eating.

    people with eating disorders don't choose to not eat, they just can't, it's a mental illness and it can't really be helped, i've got anorexia and it's not how you think it is at all... Learn more about it before you judge people with it like that

  • Im sure it can be helped. Thats why they have head doctors.

  • Well, yeah, if you get help it can, but i mean people can't really help it if they get it.

  • no, they dont choose, their mind does, people wih anorexia get chosen like in a raffel, they dont mean to,

  • If someone is depressed, are you going to tell them they're weak? That it's their own fault? That they can choose themselves to be happy?

    I hope you won't, 'cause depressions are not caused by a person himself/herself. Just like eating disorders...

  • No. But I dont feel sorry for these girls for killing themselves, thats just stupid. People with depression seek help if they want to. Shit happens, life is a fucking bitch, I know this but thats why you try to ask for help any way you can and sometimes talking your problems.

  • People with depressions don't always ask for help either. Why wouldn't you ask for help? Because people would think you're insane, fear of psychologues and psychiatrists, fear of a mental hospital.

    I'm not saying that's all it is, but it was for me, and a friend of me as well. I was afraid that if I'd tell anyone I didn't feel well, they would just take me to some psych or anything. I didn't want to be treated that way.

    But hey, without professional help you can get out of it as well.

  • I bet that you don't know how it's like to have anorexia. It's not just stereotyping people that starve themselves, it's a REAL mental illness. They don't have a choice to eat nothing or little. They're forced to do so.

  • Of course I dont. They aint forced to do shit, this is all in their minds. People starving in slums across America and rest of the world hate these girls.

  • that's so sad. :| wow.

  • there are people who want to look like that. i know i did. before, thankfully.

  • This is so saaaad....

    I love the song c:

  • thats how i see myself everyday

  • omigosh the girl in the mirror was a beautiful healthy lookin girl then it showed wat she really looked like i nearly fainited omg.........