A professional athlete once said “I am not a role model” although it seems that in today’s society much has changed for these high profile human beings. Referring to Ali Jatoi’s blog post about athletes endorsing an unhealthy lifestyle, junk food. The list goes on and on of different sports and both genders of celebrities putting their name behind products that are directly contributing to the growing obesity problem in our society. Most companies really do not care if they are using athletes to make their unhealthy/harmful product more popular, they only care about increasing awareness and using the celebrities fan base to do so.

The athlete who said the quote I mentioned earlier was Charles Barkley in a Nike Commercial. He was implying that athletes should not be role models just because they are dominant in their sport. In hindsight, kids want to be them in the future. From young kids to adolescents whether they play a sport or not they do look up to them. So when Lebron James or Michael Jordan or any other high profile athlete or celebrity endorses a unhealthy lifestyle, their only is one conclusion and that is that not by choice they are role models.

https://blogs.ubc.ca/alijatoi/2013/10/07/why-are-so-many-athletes-promoting-junk-food/