The “It” Girl in Distress Trope and Its Effects on Teenage Girls
Written and Submitted by Joëlle Selwan

Poem

I met this girl Blair Waldorf

She was the It girl of the Upper-East Side


I met this girl Blair Waldorf

From fashion to friends, she had it all


I met this girl Blair Waldorf

She was broken inside


I met this girl Blair Waldorf

Her dad left her in a man’s world


I met this girl Blair Waldorf

Her mom left her to be cuddled by the sitter’s arms


I met this girl Blair Waldorf

Society threw her in the arms of an eating disorder


I met this girl

She loved watching Gossip Girl


I met this girl

She too started to fall for society’s demons


I met this girl

With a disease similar to Blair’s


She too thrives in hunger

From tiny bites to an empty stomach


She too hides behind closed doors

I met this girl

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