Contact Me . The Future A lthough the trend in womens figures on television has become increasingly thin in the past few decades, the future is likely to show some changes.
Women can only lose so much weight until they become mere skeletal figures.
Although many female viewers try to attain the same thin figure of women on television, others do not appreciate the extraordinary thin figures maintained by many models and actresses. 3 Over 50 percent of women view actresses Courteney Cox Arquette and Gwyneth Paltrow as excessively thin. More women would rather look like plus-size actress Camryn Manheim than ultra thin Calista Flockhart. There is a small trend in television toward average and plus-sized actresses. Organizations have been created to end weight discrimination on television.