Gok's Teens - The Naked Truth

Gok’s Teens – The Naked Truth

Last night was the premiere of Gok Wan’s new channel 4 programme Gok’s Teens – The Naked Truth. The programme follows the problems that teenagers go through be it weight issues, bullying, and sexuality. I have always been a fan of Gok’s TV shows and after watching this it blew me away.

The fact that some teenagers spend ridiculous amounts of time looking at images dubbed at the ‘perfect’ body and inspire to be like them is shocking s most of the mages scream unhealthy. I believe that Gok was the perfect person to be part of this show, struggling with weight and anorexia himself shows people that you can stop and things can be better.

It is absolutely shocking that girls at the age of twelve are starting to take drastic actions to ‘improve’ their body and especially when a primary school teacher said that children as young as six aren’t happy with the way they look.

Being a teenager is the worst part of growing up, you are having trouble find yourself let alone people judging you and making you feel that you are not worth or that you are a ‘freak’, this programme goes to show that you are not on your own. Millions of teenagers are going through a variety of problems and just need someone to talk to. I for one would have loved something like this being on TV when I was going through my teenage years.

I am all for Gok’s body confidence classes being made mandatory in schools and hopefully will stop the younger generation putting themselves down. I also believe that magazines should keep photo editing down to a minimum, it is one thing making a spot disappear but after seeing how much editing was done on the model photo shoot is ridiculous, why did they need to change so much on her?

I believe all the challenges that Gok set the teens were perfect and really effective; I couldn’t help shed a few tears when the girl who was getting over anorexia had her story read out to her.

I am looking forward to next week episode especially about the girl who is being bullied, on  clip it showed her saying that she is fine until she gets to the school gates and then she starts to panic. I know that feeling all too well and cannot wait to see how Gok helps her to overcome her fears. If only he was at my school when I was there.

All the teens deserve a huge congratulations and a pat on the back for being so brave to not only share there story but let others see it and last but not least a huge congratulations to the one and only Gok Wan who is such an inspiration and without him would not be possible.

Well done Gok, you are truly amazing.