Body Image Of Women

Even though media vaunts an iridescent image of what every girl should look like, the simple fact is just, it is impossible. It is because the pictures in the media are not true—they all have gone through lots of Photoshop. Only 5 percent of women have the body type seen in almost all advertisements. Besides, most of fashion models are thinner than 98 percent of American women. However, women still continue to do whatever they can in order to fit into that idea of ‘perfection’. Eating disorders have harassed who want to feel like they are ‘beautiful’, for years. Women are willing to do anything even though it can cause harm to their own self due to low self-esteem. Do you want your sister, friends or girl friends always feel depressed and doing harm to themselves, as they feel dissatisfied about their

As a wise man once said, “To love yourself is to understand you don't need to be perfect to be good.” However young girls have so much pressure put on them to look in a way that is not only unrealistic but also unhealthy. As a result of this, young girls have a very negative body image and self-confidence.The problem is the unrealistic body standards that media and society have set for girls. According to SSCC, the average American woman is 5’4 and 140 pounds. There is a clear problem when the media is only advertising women that are 5’11 and 117 pounds, which is the average American model. Even though the body of a model is very rare and uncommon,girls are expected to look like they do. However, by promoting a positive body campaign, stopping the portrayal of fake and photoshopped models in the media, and expanding the diversity of models, we could lift unrealistic body standards and start accepting everybody as beautiful.

Western society has a relatively strict idea about how a woman should look, think, and act. It lauds thinness and is disgusted by fatness. This kind of notion causes women to seriously question themselves. Ideal bodies and faces are all over the media and are a very large

Body image has changed throughout the years. The feeling that you have to have this perfect body has grown. Body image is an issue in today’s society especially through the media outlets.

In society, women relate to friends, models and actresses which are actually people who are in the industry portraying the ‘ideal body.’ Women think too much about what others think of them instead of just caring about themselves. They also choose to take the unhealthy approach and gain all these bad habits to obtain the ‘ultimate’ body image of this ‘ideal woman’ society has created.

Model’s work so hard to have the perfect body for magazines and other things but it is not enough for people they have to photoshop everything that is natural for a girl and it makes girls self conscious about themselves. The interest in this topic is that this is a serious problem,girls should be proud of there body but people think that if a girl is fat then that girl does not care and if a girl is too skinny that girl is trying too hard. In the 1840’s people were fat because it showed that that person was wealthy and could eat a lot, and if a person is skinny you could not afford to eat. But by the 1920’s dieting and calorie counting were apart of daily life. There is way too much pressure on girls to have the perfect body because girls think they are not as pretty as the girls in magazines, society is also the problem because society thinks if a girl is not skinny that girl is not pretty, they always try to change girls because nothing is

As presented in the movie Miss Representation, media and technology are important because they work as powerful messengers that build many people’s way of thinking. As we live in a technologically advanced generation, being exposed to media is so easy. Both media and technology works as delivering any ideas that shapes our society. They shape our minds about politics, our emotions, and our importance. Then, it means that media can also manipulate our perception of gender role. Among all the ideas that media tries to indoctrinate, it can also portrait the importance of a woman to being all about physical beauty. Media presents a perfect woman’s image focusing on their bodily figure making their value, worth, or mind would depend on their physical appearances. Thus, it influences the way men think what is important about women is their bodily attractiveness. In any kinds of media such as advertisement, films, or video games, women are generally appreciated by their looks, not by their intellectuals or achievements. As media depicts an unrealistic body image of women’s beauty, many young girls’ value is set as to become someone else with attractive appearance, nothing like smart, powerful, or leader-like.

People are very visual creatures. We look, we judge, and we make assumptions. Women should be able to look a certain way and love themselves for how they look and not have to worry about being made fun of because they may not be the tiniest or they may be a little skinnier than normal. Are the pictures that we see of women and their bodies reachable? We see images of models with perfect bodies plastered everywhere. We see them on tv, magazines, walking through the mall, and movies. People see these and make assumptions. The images we see are making our expectations of the female body skyrocket but in reality these expectations are most likely unreachable.

There are beauty standards and all women are aware of it. Media is filled with this body image view of a perfect woman and in return gives an abundant number of women body image issues. Women have a lot of pressure because of the media to have a fit body and beautiful hair and they are even supposed to look flawless when they step out of their homes or go to the gym. These roles are pushed more on celebrities but average women views what critics have to say about these women and can only imagine what the critics would say about them if they were under that kind of

As you’re walking down a street you may notice a young group of girls or women walking and they see a huge billboard of a beautiful model. They might stop and stare at her and then discuss about her perfect her body is. Not knowing in the next five minutes they’ll be comparing their bodies to the model and feeling bad about themselves wishing that they had her body. Not to mention, that the photo may be photoshopped to make it seem as her body is perfect, or she had plastic surgery to fit the idea of having the perfect body. The fact that the media thinks they’re encouraging young girls and women to embrace their beauty, they’re influencing them that they have to have a perfect body in order to get attention. The media has put a lot of pressure on young girls and women to look perfect and second guess their bodies, when plastic surgery is never the answer to build their self-esteem up.

Self-esteem plays a big part of body image. People have to feel good about themselves and be comfortable in their own skin to be happy. In today's world, it feels almost impossible to be happy, this generation is all about the media which makes having self-esteem 10x harder. Millions of pictures are posted of expectations of how women should look. In an article written by Pavica Sheldon, she states that ”The average American woman is 5’4 and 140 pounds, whereas the average female model portrayed in the media is 5’11 and 120 pounds”. Women are placed into a box telling them they have to look a certain way and if they don't they're simply not good enough. Besides being put into a category women numerously get called nasty names like slut or whore if they show too much. Piggy and fatty if they're overweight. Or “stick” if she's too skinny. Nothing is ever good enough is what it feels like. For example, Kylie Jenner, if you grew up watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” you know how she looked before all the plastic surgery she got done, she now looks completely different. An account wrote, “What are they giving Kylie?” and someone quoted the tweet and said plastic. So even if women try to fix their imperfections they still get shamed down for it by calling them fake.

Do you want a thigh gap? Some girls do because one word about how a girl looks will mess with their heads, girls always check to see if they have a curvy body and will try to act like they have a great body and try to achieve this goal. Girls nowadays only care about how they look and it’s not healthy, they just don’t want to get made fun of because of their bodies. Girls always feel like they need to have perfect bodies because of all the pressure being put on them and/or being bullied into it or peer-pressured into it. The reason girls feel pressure on themselves is because everyone judges you on your body. Guys will only like you for your looks and not anything else like personality, interests, how nice you are. Everybody judges to soon about really nice people because they can’t see past their looks. Girls always judge other people like not so “popular” girls or people that are weird, not so social, socially akward, or people that don’t really fit in that much. Even guys get judged by girls because of looks, there’s too much pressure on girl’s to have perfect bodies because people expect you to be perfect, girls want to live up to those expectations, and that pressure is put on you.

Our body is what makes us who we are. Everyone is special due to physical traits. Even though everyone has an opinion about what his or her perfect body would be, changing one's personal characteristics would take away from an individual. Do you ever look in the mirror and wonder to yourself, “Am I good enough for everyone? Are my arms too fat? Does my face has too much acne? Do my clothes show my muffin top?” Well, you aren't alone. Many women struggle with body image. Rae Smith quotes “There is nothing wrong with your body, but there is a lot wrong with the messages which try to convince you otherwise.” Women feel self-conscious due to the media. The media pressure women to be overly concerned with their bodies. Media affected women significantly.

Women have let the idea of looking beautiful take over their self-confidence and life. Healthy Place, an online magazine teaching women about living a healthy life, says that, “today's fashion models weigh twenty-three percent less than the average female, and a young woman between the ages of 18-34 has a seven percent chance of being as slim as a catwalk model and a one percent chance of being as thin as a supermodel.” So why do women push themselves to be excessively thin when these models are anomalies? They do it because the media tells them that this look is the only look that can attract men. Even if a woman is “beautiful” according to the media’s standards, she will always find something about her body that she hates, whether it is her hair or her belly button, no women is completely satisfied. Our society is very accepting of different religions and lifestyles, so why can we not accept different types of beauty as well?

First, lets analyze why the media ridicule both men and women’s body. Men have been more conscious of the fact that their six pack is not there. This makes them more self conscious of their bodies. Thus, celebrities have a huge impact in the social media. The body shaming trend stems from the fact people are likely to be more critical of images because that is what they are getting accustomed to analyzing. But to make a person feel poorly about their personal image is not okay and not the purpose why celebrities should do it. Social media gives us the complex ability to share almost anything with followers, and no one . Women see their favorite actress and wish to be like them. The