Female Thinness

Hollywood is all about appearances and looking your best. Why is it that Hollywood portrays the image that in order to look your best, you have to be as thin as possible? Let's look at the cast of Friend, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox-Arquette, and Lisa Kudrow. Cox-Arquette, and Aniston, it seemed were almost having a weight loosing competition for the past couple of seasons. They both are beautiful, talented actresses. Their weight on the other hand, is very low. They both are stick figures and they seem to flaunt their perfect bodies on their show. They are always dressed in tight little outfits. On the show, they are shown as being happy and enjoying life. Some viewers who are conscious about their weight may feel the reason why these characters are happy, is because they are thin. Women also need to realize that these characters are just made up and the situations they deal with on the show, they don't deal with in real life. These actresses are real

As a cornerstone of the black community, their bodies are under constant scrutiny as both a mother figure and a sexual symbol. Within black communities, black women are encouraged to be curvy, with an amply bosom, slim waist, and fuller hips, thighs, and behind. This physique doesn’t come naturally to all black women and many try to attain it, and those who have it maintain it. Skinny Black women are constantly asked about their weight and diet. They are told that they “need a little more meat on their bones”. These are the same young girls who grow up praying puberty hits them, giving them bigger breast and a bigger butt. Black women who lack a curvy physique are quickly viewed as being less of a woman, as if there is a direct relationship between Black womanhood and weight. Skinny Black women are deemed as weaker, less able to cook or even have kids by family members and friends. Black men also contribute to skinny-shaming. In Jada Pinkett-Smith’s words, “You don’t think I want to be a couple of pounds heavier? Black men like their women with a little meat. All my life Black men have told me how flawed I am”. For such a strong, beautiful dominant Black actress, Jada still feels her body is not up to the heavier body standards of the Black

Malcolm X, a civil rights activist, stated that “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have to power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that’s power. Because they control the minds of masses.” Unfortunately, some people lose their lives trying to get an “ideal body.” From the article “NYC Girls Project - Media and Girls,” this organization conducted a study in 2010 that stated that “63 percent of girls think the body image represented by the fashion industry is unrealistic and 47% think it’s unhealthy. Due to these reasons and others, the media influences individuals in a negative way because of how it reinforces racial/gender stereotypes.

There are no questions to whether the media has influenced the self-consciousness people have on their body or not. Whether it is the front of a magazine cover or in a film or television show, the selection of models or actors are primarily thin or fit leading readers and viewers to worry or want to change the way their body looks. Body image is the way one sees oneself and imagine how one looks. Having a positive body image means that most of the time someone sees themselves accurately, and feels comfortable in their body; negative body image, what the media exemplifies for the majority of the time, is just the opposite. The media uses unrealistic standards of beauty and bodily perfection to drive ordinary people to be dissatisfied with their body image which can result in the search to obtain these unreachable goals.

She felt in her heart that her husband only loved her for her appearance but she didn’t care. From the other hand we see number 14 that say” But, you are so skinny” (DeLappe, 33) and number 25 “If you want to bulk up maybe you should try lifting” (DeLappe, 33) that judge her for being so skinny. We have a skinny girls that’s try to argued with the others that’s doesn’t feel like skinny and a husband that argued with the wife why she is getting so

When we look into the mirror we constantly pick at our insecurities; our stomach, thighs, face, and our body figure. Society has thought us that there is only one right way of looking despite the fact that we are all different shapes, sizes, and colors. Luckily we have corporations that shove detrimental products to fix our perfect imperfection. The easiest and most common thing to do is blame the advertising industries and corporations. It is not wrong to say that they are in part responsible but we can’t make this issue go away until we talk about patriarchy.

The Media has a big impact on Body Image is because we can see what celebrities or the cool kids like and we want to look like them because we won’t get bully and look at wried when we are going out, a school or work. This quote from National Eating Disorders Collaboration “The way you feel about your body is your affective body image. This relates to the amount

There are hundreds of reports that prove what a major influence media has on shaping our perceptions; I am not disputing the good and bad massive effects that media has on us, but can we continue to blame the media for every negative thought girls have about themselves and about their body shape?.

The female body image is highly influenced by the mass media and the media’s portrayal of women, ‘70% of college women say they feel worse about their own looks after reading women’s magazines’ (University of Massachusetts & Stanford University, 2006), the portrayal of women in the media has an unrealistic approach and brings out body dissatisfactions and this results in eating problems and disorders.

Eating disorders have been haunting women and men alike. However, has this been impacted by media? Since Marilyn Monroe’s reign came to an end, it seems as though the ideal symbol of beauty has transformed into thinness. The National Eating Disorder Association states that numerous studies have linked exposure to the “thin ideal” in mass media to body dissatisfaction, internalization of the thin ideal, and disordered eating among women.

Crystal believes big isn’t beautiful but that it is an illness. She warns that models that are obese encourage unhealthy life styles. She points to Tess Munster as an example. Claiming to care about these women’s health and the effect this has on impressionable young women. I have to agree, these women face a much shorter lifespan by 10-20yrs. And the means to which they meet their fate include heart attack, stroke, breast and endometrial cancers. 46.7% of obese women suffer from depression. Multiple studies have also found an increase of anxiety, bipolar disorder, and panic disorder in obese women. Simply put it’s heartbreaking and far from

We live in a body-obsessed culture. Women feel pressured to have the perfect bodies, and we believe so many lies about what a perfect body is from the media. Women are today influenced by images that we see in the media, and sometimes the influence is so great that we risk our lives trying to portray what we see. Across the board throughout different civilizations, there have been so many distortions of what the perfect body looks like placed in our minds by the media. Many people between ages 19 - 50 become obsessed with looking like the images they see delineated by the media. Women and teenagers what to look like their favorite celebrity, so they do plastic surgeries to portray what they

It could be the fact, that the majority of magazine models and regular models are very thin white women. Even in movies and television there is rarely a depiction of the “average” or “above average” woman of color. This could be a large part of the problem. When some of these women were taken to the doctor as children they were considered to be too thin by their mothers and given medicine to curve their appetites instead of being properly diagnosed. Since, doctors are at the top of the medical ladder, what they is diagnosed is usually taken very seriously. When the doctor agreed with the child’s mother that the child was to too fat even though the child was not, this could leave lasting effects. When the child’s environment tells her that she is too fat, she has no choice but to conform.

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.

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