KnockOuts For Girls promotes eating nutritious foods, getting enough exercise and living a healthy lifestyle (see our Health & Fitness page), but being healthy is not about weighing a certain amount. We are all made differently and what the scale reads doesn’t determine beauty or health. It is important to eat right and exercise to be healthy, but we don’t all look good with stick thin legs. Some people are built that way and they look great, but others are built with curves and they look great too. No two women are built the same and instead of trying to change your body, embrace it and love it!

KnockOuts For Girls wants to be careful to express the importance of eating healthy and exercising for the benefit of staying healthy, not to look like a model who is half-starved. That is not healthy and many models develop eating disorders in order to maintain an unrealistically thin physique. This is dangerous.

Throwing up and using other methods to lose weight may seem like an easy solution, but if you ask anyone who has had an eating disorder, they will tell you that it is a living hell - don’t be foolish. Eat right, exercise and live a healthy lifestyle. If you feel you are overweight, consult with an adult you trust and/or a doctor. Learn how to eat healthy and become active - exercise can be fun!

We know it’s hard because the media would have you believe everyone famous has porcelain skin, is blemish free, dimple free, and has hair that effortlessly appears to always be blowing back off of their faces, as if a wind machine were in front of them.

GUESS WHAT????

- There IS a wind machine blowing their hair like that!

- AND, before they set up the wind machine, a hair stylist spent 1-2 hours (and countless products) to get their hair to look smooth and shiny.

- A make-up artist spent 2 hours making their skin look flawless.

- A designer or wardrobe consultant spent hours finding just the right outfit that would hide all their “flaws.”

- A photographer used just the right lighting to make them look 10 years younger.

- Then, an editor uses a program to photo shop out anything they don’t like: lines around the eyes, a pimple that still showed through all the cover up the make-up artist applied, cellulite on thighs…they can even edit a photo so that arms and legs appear much thinner than they are-making a celebrity look sizes smaller.

What you see in magazines is not real. It is truly amazing what can be done to a photo these days. Often when celebrities are interviewed, they will tell you that they don’t look like what you see in magazines, on television, or in person. Kate Winslet spoke out angrily when her thighs were digitally slimmed down in a photo of her on the February 2003 cover of GQ magazine. In 2002, FHM magazine altered singer Nelly Furtado’s photos to make her stomach appear flatter and more muscular. Jenny McCarthy explains her flawless figure on the cover of the April 2009 issue of Shape magazine:

“It’s eating healthy and also a crap load of airbrushing…I keep myself in very good shape… but it is definitely a little touched up. I have freckles… and stretch marks that you do not see here, and they add a little shadowing to make these muscle things happen that don’t exist on my body.”

Please don’t think you are not beautiful because you don’t look like what you see in magazines - that is not real. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!! And, believing you are will make others see you that way too - trust us. Empower yourself with your own belief in how beautiful you are.