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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.

It is proven that models nowadays weigh 23% less than the average woman.Girls believe that to have the ideal body, you need to be toned and slim, wheres for guys being muscular is the definition of perfection. The problem starts to become much severe , when it ultimately leads to serious habits such as eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia and in most cases, suicidal attempts.

This isn’t a new problem, “the popular media (television, movies, magazines, etc.) have, since World War II, increasingly held up a thinner and thinner body image as the ideal for women”. This has begun to negatively girls at younger and younger ages. One study found that when they surveyed nine and ten year old girls “40% have tried to lose weight”. Another study found that “at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies", by the time these girls reach the age of seventeen, this percentage grows to 78%. Young women in this country are obsessed with reaching the beauty standards set out for them by the

I am a teenager girl and I deal with the pressure of trying to have the perfect figure, clothes, and makeup. I look at magazine covers, I watch tv shows, I see models and I desire to look just like them. I understand that the pictures are photoshopped and that no one really looks like society displays them, but I still wish I could look like that. A couple of years ago, I modeled for Carolina Talent in Charlotte. The girls surrounding me were skin and bones. They had physical health problems due to their eating disorders. I never once considered not eating or dieting to lose weight. I have always been a fairly skinny person, I was even made fun of in middle school for being “anorexic”. When I told the kids at school that I was modeling a kid came up to me and asked me if I threw up after I ate. The atmosphere of modeling was not for me. I no longer cared about it, because I hated the image it was giving me. Women underestimate their own beauty. I think that society would be a much better place if everyone understood that someone else's beauty is not the absence of their

Under society’s norms for decades, young women have been put under the pressure and anticipation to have perfect bodies. That is, thin and curved, beautified by applying pounds of the makeup to their face but not appear ridiculously overdone. Who’s responsible for these standards imposed on young women? When a young girl picks up the model along the cover of Vogue being called flawless, it’s easy for her to then aspire to be a real-life imitation of the photocopy. These companies produce magazine covers shown with girls’ images daily. As if keeping the perfect body wasn’t hard enough our culture also forces girls into the forever expanding world of composition, however, body image is a pressing issue for young women. Advertisements and posters of skinny female models are all over. Young girls not only could be better but need to be more upright and feel driven to throw the perfect figure. Moreover, girls are evaluated and oppressed by their physical appearances. With supplements and apparel designed to enhance a facial expression; social media, magazines, and marketing campaigns and advertisements add to the burden of perfection. The fashion industry is a prime object of body image issues, as they believe clothes look better on tall and svelte women. Established on a survey participated by 13 to 17-year-old in the U.S., 90% “felt pressured by fashion and media industries to be skinny”, with more than 60% routinely compares themselves to models, while 46%

The so-called “plus-size” models of the industry are skinny and in-shape; they are just curvy. Curvy does not equal plus-sized, and as the average woman is heavier than she was 20 years ago, the general population should be more represented in fashion. Lisa Hilton makes an argument saying that obesity is much more common than anorexia and eating disorders, but this has nothing to do with how the fashion industry itself influences the amount of eating disorders that there are. We know that obesity has struck America, but these people often times feel bad about being overweight and feel like they are a taboo in society. Fat shaming in media does not promote a healthy diet for women, and more clothes should be created for overweight models so that every girl can look and feel

As humans on this planet we often think about what others think about our appearance. We often, in this society, look at a person through their characteristics such as: looks, height, clarity of skin, and by how fat or thin one appears to be. In the article, The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place, by Natascha Pocek, she states the fact that, in this society, we put a lot of emphasis on diets and appearing thin. From when we are children we tend to change our views according to the ways of man, and find ways to stay fit or to lose weight. With this constant loss of weight we tend to get into a hole of wanting to be thinner, and in my opinion that want leads to the attempts of so many girls developing some

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.

Buzzfeed has created a video that showcases just how exactly women’s body types have changed. The standard of body attractiveness of actresses became significantly thinner during the last thirty years (Gleaves, 2006). The video shows how the presence of curvaceous women in magazines has declined dramatically since 1901.To now the curvy and small waist figure of todays “perfect body type. There is not a perfect body type because the “perfect body” is constantly changing. The more exposure that magazines show to the “perfect body” the more they perpetuate the drive for thinness in those who are just beginning or are already struggling with an eating disorder.

Advancements in technology has allowed for leaps and bounds in the medical field, in science and just our day to day lives. With the media at an all time high, our youth is surrounded by it constantly. With their smart phones, and computers, not to mention TVs, they can't seem to get away from it. Young women are bombarded with photos of stick thin models, the stores they shop at have borderline underweight manikins modeling their clothing. It is quite fitting that these young girls want to be like them. They have to be thin like the pretty girls on the magazines. Only what they are trying to achieve does not exist. With all these new photo shopping techniques, these models are nearly unrecognizable in person. So these women are

“To be happy and successful, you must be thin,” is a message women are given at a very young age (Society and Eating Disorders). In fact, eating disorders are still continuously growing because of the value society places on being thin. There are many influences in society that pressures females to strive for the “ideal” figure. According to Sheldon’s research on, “Pressure to be Perfect: Influences on College Students’ Body Esteem,” the ideal figure of an average female portrayed in the media is 5’11” and 120 pounds. In reality, the average American woman weighs 140 pounds at 5’4”. The societal pressures come from television shows, diet commercials, social media, peers, magazines and models. However, most females do not take into account of the beauty photo-shop and airbrushing. This ongoing issue is to always be a concern because of the increase in eating disorders.

Within the media people start to compare themselves to whatever the perfect body type is that is shown on the cover of the magazine. In an interview, Hannah Smoot was asked if body shaming has affected her in any way. Smoot responded with, “Yeah. Because I am a bigger girl. I’d say, pressure from media has affected my self esteem. But, I’ve never had face to face confrontation, but I know they say it behind my back...” Smoot’s statement explains how media can affect how a person views themselves. In the article, “Why are People Unhappy with Their Bodies?”, the author states, “With these media images and body ideals, it’s little wonder that women and men feel inadequate, ashamed, and dissatisfied with how they look.” Before this, the author explained how unhealthy it would be if everyone was the ideal image the media portrays. The author explained the health risks this unhealthy image would pertain. But, people still tend to want to reflect what the media says is perfect.In, “Fat Talk and Your Self Image”, the the author enhances the idea of how unfair the media’s image is by stating, “ Women’s body image, however, seems to be more vulnerable to media portrayals of the “perfect” female form.” The media actively changes how people perceive the body. With photoshop being actively used within the media, people will start to body shame themselves. Which, due to media, is becoming more prevalent.

Closer in the early 2000’s if someone’s body wasn’t super thin and little, they would be made fun of and be told to go on a diet, or to put their food down because “they don’t need it”. Now a full circle has come as the ideal body is back to Monroe. Thicker women are admired and praised while skinny and toned women are told to go put more meat on their bones. Songs like “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj and “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor both talk about how men would rather have a thicker girl than a slim girl --or a “silicone barbie doll,” according to Meghan. While this is uplifting to the women on the thicker end of the scale, it’s definitely demeaning to those on the other side. It seems as if one can’t be praised without the other being knocked down.