Body Gossip
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- Welcome to Body Gossip - the most inspirational theatre event of this year.
But the script of Body Gossip hasn't been written yet...
YOU'RE going to write the script. Because it's YOUR show.
We want to hear your stories about Body Image. Because Body Gossip needs to reflect the REAL thoughts of REAL people about their REAL bodies - so we want to hear from YOU.
Do you ever think about your body? Are you happy with it? What do you love? What would you change? What's YOUR STORY about YOUR BODY?
Write your story as a theatrical monologue, and submit it on our website - www.bodygossip.org. 5 winners will be chosen by 5 celebrity judges!
But here's the really exciting bit.
Body Gossip will premiere in a West End theatre next year with an exciting cast of well-known stars!
YOUR story performed by a CELEBRITY!
So get writing! Get sharing! Get celebrating!
THE BODY GOSSIP COMPETITION CONTINUES ON WWW.BODYGOSSIP.ORG!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
Body Gossip - tell everybody...
We Want to Hear About YOU!
Bebo Body Gossip Competition - Deadline April 4!
Welcome to Body Gossip - the most inspirational theatre event of this year.
But the script of Body Gossip hasn't been written yet...
YOU'RE going to write the script. Because it's YOUR show.
We want to hear your real stories about your real bodies. Because we believe everyone should celebrate their own, unique beauty.
Do you ever think about your body? Are you happy with it? What do you love? What would you change? What's YOUR STORY about YOUR BODY?
Here's how you enter:
1. Become a friend of the Body Gossip profile
2. Write your story and send it to story@bodygossip.org
5 winners will be chosen by 5 celebrity judges!
Here's the really exciting bit.
Body Gossip will premiere in a West End theatre next year with an exciting cast of well-known stars!
YOUR story performed by a CELEBRITY!
So get writing! Get sharing! Get celebrating!
Body Gossip - tell everybody...
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The Beeb dahling...
So, I've been ill (cough). So ill I've not managed to Body Gossip for FOUR DAYS. This is unusual, and disturbing, seeing as there are now LESS THAN 3 WEEKS TO GO before The Big Kick Off aka. Body Gossip no.1 at The Hub, N1 (buy your tickets at www.bodygossip.eventbrite.com!)
Illness made worse with the worry that I wouldn't be able to speak during my BBC Radio interview today on the Charlie Crocker show on BBC Radio Solent.
But, I can report with great relief that I did the interview today, from a little room in London with a red microphone (with pen all over it, very odd) - and somehow, thanks to amazing technology, it sounded like I was in a studio in Hampshire! How clever.
The interview was over very quickly so now I'm left with that odd feeling of 'Did I say everything I needed to?', and perhaps more importantly 'Did I sound like an idiot?'
Now I'm off to use my new-found health and Body Gossip like billio.
I'll post the link to the interview when they podcast it. Then you can tell me whether or not I really did sound like an idiot...!
Love,
Ruth x
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The House of Commons and the Daily Mail
SO yesterday I was invited to the House of Commons to join Beat at the launch of Eating Disorders Awareness Week. I was joined by the beautiful Chloe Marshall, and the fantastic Emma-Jane Haigh, a Body Gossip Ambassador.
The focus of the event was a report by Beat highlighting the problems that exist in primary care when dealing with eating disorders. Out of 1500 sufferers of eating disorders, only 15% felt that their doctor really understood how to deal with their eating disorder. And we heard from 2 Beat ambassadors and their parents who told us that they visited doctors up to 10 times before the eating disorder was even diagnosed! These are scary findings, because there are so many people out there suffering from eating disorders, and they can't even get adequate (let alone quality) health care.
As you know I'm raising money and awareness for Beat, and so it was really great to be there as a representative of Body Gossip.
And I was joined by Chloe Marshall - the size 16 model who shot to fame last year when she was crowned Miss Surrey, and she came 2nd place in the Miss England final. She's performing one of the Body Gossip stories in the show on 29th March and she says she's really excited, but also a bit nervous!
I also met up with Emma-Jane Haigh, who is a strong supporter of both Beat and Body Gossip. Emma-Jane and I have spoken a lot about her own eating disorder, and how - now she has recovered - she is determined to speak up about the illness. I'm so glad she's supporting Body Gossip as she's a great speaker and incredibly passionate about celebrating realistic beauty.
As I write this I'm waiting to be interviewed by the Daily Mail - which is very exciting!
I do find it difficult though when talking about why I'm doing Body Gossip - although I had struggles as a teenager (as we all do, right?) it wasn't until I went to New York and studied film acting, aged 25, that I really felt pressurised to look a certain way. I've always loved food, and see exercise as a way that I can enjoy it more! But when I was in New York I did feel under pressure to lose weight - the first time I'd ever seriously felt that way since my paranoid teenage years.
It was while I was in New York that I became involved with a group of actors who wanted to create a project about body image. They had all suffered in varying degrees from eating disorders, and talking to them made me angry and frustrated - these gorgeous women (and I'm not sucking up to them, they really are gorgeous) who had felt so far away from the images of "perfection" that they had seen on the catwalks, in the mags, in the films – that they had starved themselves to try and emulate what they saw.
This made me so angry and frustrated that I came back to the UK and launched Body Gossip – to inspire people to shout about their bodies, until their stories are heard loud and clear.
The reason I find it difficult is that I’ve never felt what these women in New York – and how so many people in the UK , and all over the world – feel. And I worry that people might be annoyed or disillusioned that I haven’t experienced what they have. No, I haven’t. I’ve not had an eating disorder. But I became close to one in New York, and I know what it’s like to feel disgusted by the fat on my body. But then I got angry-and the result is Body Gossip!
Luckily I’m no longer angry – I’m hopeful, and excited, and inspired and moved. I’m looking forward to seeing Body Gossip grow and grow.
And for the first time in the last two and a half years, I have a feeling it just might grow… I think Body Gossip is getting there. And it’s a great feeling.
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Celebrity Cast List announced!
I am VERY excited to announce that the following amazing celebrities are confirmed in the cast for the first ever Body Gossip performance, on 29th March 2009 at The Hub, London:
Zaraah Abrahams
Donna-Leigh Bailey
Natalie Cassidy
Anne Diamond
Mikyla Dodd
Nikki Grahame
Shobna Gulati
Jen Hunter
Chloe Marshall
To buy tickets for Body Gossip, go to www.bodygossip.eventbrite.com
And follow me on Twitter - BodyGossipRuth!
Ruth x
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I love the look of size 0 and would love to be it but i now its so wrong i only eat 1 meal a day and water which is so wrong... if people didnt push the size 0 so much then teanager and adults and even kids would not have this problem as were all stunning in our own way but once u stat skipping meal u can go back to normal..... size 0 are sick and they sud have realy models anbot fake paper thin ones... :@
Its time size 0 went down in flames.
It is abnormal,
dangerous,
Unachievable without resulting to starvation to 99.9% of the population,
The only thing most people associate with size 0 is eating disorders, so why are people using it?
GET LOST SIZE 0!!!
NOBODY IS INTERESTED!!!
WE WANT REAL NATURAL AND HEALTHY BEAUTY!!!
Wow This Sounds Good
Im A Big Fan Of Sarah Jayne Dunn, As You Can Prob Guess Lol
Good Luck With Everything
XXX
Hey, a lot of you are asking if the Body Gossip competition is still going - YES it is! The Bebo competition is over, and 5 winners will be announced VERY SOON.
BUT! We're still looking for 15 MORE STORIES!!!
SO if you missed the Bebo competition, don't despair! Go to www.bodygossip.org/competition and you can enter your story there.
At the moment, there is no official deadline.
Looking forward to hearing more of your stories!
Love, Ruth xx
hi, i know the deadlines passed, but really wanted to say something, so here goes;
I am reasonably happy with my body, as happy as any teen can be! I hate people who constantly talk about their body, "im so fat" etc. I am skinny, and that isn't a great thing in my eyes. I own a pair of size 4 jeans (yes, that is a size 0), and beceause of that people think i must be incredibly confident and love myself. I would love to gain weight, but i never do, and i don't diet or conciously try and keep thin, or exercise. But everyone feels they have they right to talk about my body, not that they would do it to someone "fat". I don't mind too much when my friends do it, at least they know me, but when relative strangers do, its pretty annoying.
Thats the end of my rant!
here's some love!!
I hate it when people lie, or think just because they skipped a meal they can call themselves anorexic. It also annoys me when they say they want to be it, or think it looks like a good idea. Honestly, does losing your hair, not being able to get out of bed, looking grey, people questioning you, feeling like shit every single day sound good? All you do.. is think about food, think about the calories, the fat content. It fucks you up, ruins your whole life. You get judged. Even when you've lost weight, you're still unhappy, you think its not enough, you think your still too fat even though you look unhealthily stick thin. You don't notice the weight you lose, you feel as if your gaining even though the scales are going down.
Tell me one, please, tell me if you want to be like that. It doesn't matter how much weight you fucking lose, you will never be happy. So learn to love your body, because your stuck with it until you die.
'I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul'
Have a listen to some of these lyrics.....
Something to think about......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJeob...
yes i sent it via the website
susan x
HELLO!!! I left a comment on your webpage - AND I have sent the bodygossip team an email - I think what you're doing is fantastic! I have only just discovered bodygossip - UNBELIEVABLY- 5 MINUTES AFTER THE DEADLINE for the competition!!! I'm sure you've been bombarded with tons and tons of entries, and attempting to send something after would be a real pain... BUT...!!!
and am prepared to sit up all night writing an entry! EVEN IF it really can't be considered for the performance - I'd hope you might still be interested to read my thoughts??!
I have ALOT to say on this matter
Either way, good luck with all the judging and work ahead - I'll be spreading the word, even though the competition's now closed! And I wana say thank-you to Ruth and the bodygossip team for the all time and energy you've put into this idea - ur hard work is v. much appreciated! luv h
People are shallow, all the snide remarks and comments.
i managed to stop caring a while ago but it's not easy.
when are we all just going to grow up and accept each other, seriously, I sometimes wonder if all the people who shout insults at me down the corridors are ever going to get a grip and learn to do something more worthwhile with their time or if they're just going to grow up to be shallow idiots still.
The sad thing is, the ones who do it will always be liked and a lot of people will overlook what they do to others
People Call people names to hide there own Imperfections,
That still doesnt stop it hurting .
The snide comments you here whispered behind your back
"Fattie" "Errr look At her" "Ugly Cow"
I sometime cry myself to sleep , i Am so aware that i am the fattest of my friends it depresses me .
People should just accept people for who they are , till then there are going to be thousands of people like me and you crying into our pillows as soon as that door closes behind us.
A Little peak into the Person Behind the mask x
But all the people posted on here are all beautiful?
*Ish confuzzled*
Guys, Girls, it' sbaout loving you, It's about knowing that there are oustanding features, I really dislike my thighs, and my stomach, but I was told that I have expressive eyes and pouty lips: so i emphasise the stuff I like a bout myself....
I only found out about this today
so i dont think ill ener :T
hwvr I wanna leave these two thingies up here.
i am me
thas all i can be
no more
no less
no second guess
so take a look
a glare if you dare
you may not like me
but its not like i care
that's from Mizz Kizi who became a fan of two of my books,
i think im fat every1 else says i ent
but i dont belive them
its controll my life
and ive started thinking im ugly what shud i do?
I Hate My Scars
Ive got them Everywhere, some intentional some not so intentional a lot are from falling off of thing when i was little a few are from shaving my legs but most are from my rebellious year when i was 11
i used to cut myself when i was mad or upset and somtimes just becos i felt lyk it.i did it to get back at my mum most of all becos she grounded me on my birthday for smoking weed [ looking back now i can understand, at 11 years old doing tht is stupid] and i was completely mad i wrote " i hate U" on my arm with a razor.. then i tuk an overdose but after that i calmed down a lot but then my friend hung himself and things started to get bad again n i was in isolation and i jsut sat there andcut my forearm with a pencil sharpener blade i gues i was on a total downer but now iv calmed down a lot i dont do it anymore.my advice is find a different outlet for your anger lyk going to the gym becos once you grow up a bit and get out of your rebel stage you really regret it
Ive always had issues with my body, being called ft and ugly comes almost everyday, snce i was about 6/7. I'm 13 now and still hung up about it. I have amazing friends hu help me but it doesnt help most of the time. I have recentl been diagnosed with OCD which is just another challenge. Im loud and bubbily person, so no1 relii notices how low my self confdence is. I manage to block out all the comments but when I get home frm skwl, it becomes almost unbearable. I hav scars all over my stomache so I think it is important to tell ppl your stories because it bring awarness. No matter how much teachers and adults try and put a stop to it, it doesnt always work. u hav to hav the knowlege that there are others out there just like u that hav the same problems hu hav overcome that. I didnt get that, but its getting too late. I have already ruined my body. I wnt belimic, althow u cant reli tell, for a while until my mum found me. I think the best support is ppl hu have already binthru this. x
It’s hard for some to take in that they are beautiful. And it’s easy said than done to say that everyone is beautiful, they are stupid to worry about weight, breast size and so on. It's the things that go on within some ones brain that makes them believe they have imperfections. And that is a hard obstacle to overcome.
I found it hard to believe things that everyone around me would tell me. Because all at one point were saying something completely different. But in my own time I found those friends that truly were there beside me. And I finally became the person I am today, a strong and happy person.
Just remember all of you who think you are alone. Everyone has down point you aren’t the only one. And those people beside you, your friends, sometimes know you better than yourself. So listen, maybe you won’t take it in. But the best mirror is your best friend! And because of those mirrors I can see the true me.. Not so perfect at all but a happy person=]
Christina x