I can’t even put into words just how excited I was to discover that all six seasons of The Hills had been added to Amazon Prime Video UK! If you haven’t heard of The Hills; it’s basically a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ series that began in 2006 and which is centred around the lives of really wealthy, young people living in LA (for a proper description: http://www.mtv.co.uk/the-hills).
I think I first started watching it because I’m definitely one of
those people who enjoys gaining insight into the lives of others – not in a
nosey, rude way. I wonder if it’s maybe to do with me being a mental health
Blogger? Like, I put almost my entire life out there for so many people to read,
and maybe I just like to get a little something back? Or maybe it’s because in
the same way as I want readers to use I’m NOT Disordered to gain insight into
mental health, I’m interested to gain insight into the lives of people who I
maybe can’t relate to or who I don’t have much in common with. The Hills also puts a massive focus on fashion with the main character; Lauren Conrad securing an internship at the fashion magazine; Teen Vogue. Fashion is an area that I don’t often talk about on I’m NOT Disordered because it hasn’t been a big part of my life for a while now… I think I always loved fashion and used to design little outfits but then, in my Textiles GCSE class, my Teacher was very critical – and not in a constructive way. Her constant negativity around my work left me completely reluctant to continue with art and drawing and initially, I thought that was the only way I could be involved in fashion until I was eighteen and got a weekend job at a huge retail store. One of my duties was to arrange the displays and improve the shop’s appearance and it really sparked an interest in – what I later found out was called – visual merchandising.