Young Women 's Diet Pills

“Never Just Pictures” by Susan Bordo, is about how today’s society is influenced by the mass medias unrealistic ideas of how they are supposed to look. In this essay, the author breaks down the images being showcased by today’s culture concerning the aesthetics of the female body. Bordo also talks about how what was considered ‘beautiful’ or ‘perfect’ before has changed. Lately, the world has been on a craze to look like the air brushed model in the picture. Bordo explains how a lot of people are becoming more obsessed with their physique, and depending on looking thin to make them happy, instead of focusing on being happy and healthy.

In todays society the media implicates the basic idea of the perfect woman to be skinny and beautiful. But what is beautiful? Magazines everywhere promote the latest style and the way you should look to be what is considered “normal” or acceptable. Young girls should not have to worry about the clothes they wear and if it’s the next best thing just because the model on the cover said so.

Beauty, particularly a woman's, is supposed to come from within. The inside beauty of a person is worth more than all the artificial beauty. Yet many women go to extraordinary lengths to change their faces and their bodies. Advertisers use ads to advertise what they think is the “perfect body”; in which most cases are overly thin. That does not help women in achieving a better self-esteem, on the contrary, they make them feel worse about themselves. Many times advertisers “enhance” the beauty in a model. They use programs like photo-shop. They make the beauty even more unrealistic. It is proven that the average model now is more than 20 Percent underweight (Bower 2). However, Computer imaging software is used to stretch the size of the models presented in the advertisements, thereby keeping attractiveness constant (Bower 3). Still the importance of physical attractiveness prompts

We are constantly surrounded by images of the “perfect” woman. She is tall, thin and beautiful. She rarely looks older than 25, has a flawless body, and her hair and clothes are always perfect. She is not human. She is often shown in pieces – a stomach, a pair of legs, a beautifully made up eye or mouth. Our culture judges women, and women judge themselves, against this standard. It is forgotten that “beauty pornography”, as Wolf says, focuses on underweight models that are usually 15 to 20 years old. Flaws, wrinkles and other problems are airbrushed out of the picture.

“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.

Under society’s customs for decades, young women have found themselves immersed in the pressure and anticipation to have exemplary bodies. Nearly every young woman prefers to be slim, have a perfectly shaped body, that is beautified by applying pounds of makeup to their face but does not appear ridiculously overdone. Who’s responsible for these measures imposed on young women? When a young girl picks up the model on the cover of Vogue being called flawless, naturally it’s easy for her to then aspire to be a real-life imitation of the that model. 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 surging subject for young girls. Advertisements and pictures of lean female models are all over. Young women are measured and perplexed by their physical appearances with attire intended to raise their physical structures; social media, magazines, the society, marketing campaigns, advertisements, and the fashion gurus add to a strand of excellence.

Today women are mainly controlled by clothing companies, makeup companies, people, and “social norms”. Grebe explains that, “These companies set up unrealistic and unattainable goals for women, knowing women will always fail to achieve them and maximum profits will follow” (22). These companies not only take women’s money but women’s dignity as well. Grebe explains that, “The media is perpetuating the social ‘norm’ of women focusing on their physical appearance and constantly loathing their bodies” (22). There are plenty of companies that have skinny women modeling their clothing instead all sized women. In modeling women must be a certain size in most agencies, which is extremely skinny, sizes 0-3. If the women is not that certain size and

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?

In the media today skinny models are pictured on the covers of magazines with their faces covered in makeup. Sometimes models are photo shopped to look smaller than they are originally. This portraying the perfect woman to be skinny and very beautiful. Allowing kids to believe that you have to be small and covered in make-up to be beautiful, when in reality beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.

Skinny, absolutely gorgeous models in magazines can help to boost women's body image, but it doesn’t last. Researchers had college women look at magazines with skinny models for 5 continuous days. USA Today Magazine says the women claimed that they felt better about themselves and wanted a healthier lifestyle, but it didn’t last. This way of living with dieting fails and women go back to dreading their body.

These women are depicted as gorgeous, stunning and in the eyes of young girls, they are perfect. This makes it hard for young girls to accept themselves as being beautiful when the women that are known to be beautiful are as thin as a stick. Throughout the most popular magazines, there aren’t any pictures of an average girl that weighs a little more than a size one. The women who appear to be thin are the ones who make it to the forefront while the women who weigh a little more than what is labelled as the perfect body, are the ones that are used as an example in the before picture on a weight loss advertisement. Due to this, many young girls have attempted to seek other outlets in order to feel accepted in

Basically, the media is doing nothing but using subliminal messages. The way they portray the models in magazines, it only confuses a human’s mind. This makes them believe that they must look like them to be considered beautiful. Often in magazines, when positive values, success, love, and happiness, a thin person is shown. This not only completely lowers a “healthy”, or a plus sized person’s self-esteem, but the media also tries to make it seem as if in order to be happy and successful, a person must be skinny (Piazza). Every day, companies come up with a new beauty product, or a new diet product to leer someone into buying it to make themselves beautiful. New products every day completely sets aside the idea that natural beauty is already beautiful enough. According to the media, though, people need these products to look more humane, or look younger and thinner. The media also using editing and

How many men do you see ogling over the ultra skinny models on a Vogue magazine? They aren’t, most men are ogling over the centerfold of a Playboy magazine. So why do young girls and women all over the world struggle psychologically and physically to look like those models? And what effect does this have on our society? Should the use of models with a low Body Mass Index (BMI) be banned from fashion, media, and print? I will answer all of these questions and more, to support my view on why there should be changes placed on the limitations of BMI’s on fashion models and how these changes will promote healthier body images in women.

Being skinny has been America’s greatest beauty ideal for decades, a societal standard pressured upon women. In our current society, the media expects women to look a certain way. However, the media’s interpretation of an ideal body is so warped and distorted that many women are attempting to attain an unrealistic physical appearance that will never be possible. Most models within the fashion industry are thinner than 98% of American women (Lippey). When models are photoshopped and put in magazines, completely unachievable body goals are displayed everywhere. Even models suffer from substantial expectations-- 64.1% of models have been asked to lose weight by their agencies (“Model Scouts”). Models can be perceived as perfect, epitomes of beauty, and yet they too are unable to reach their own agency’s demanding requirements. These unhealthy and toxic standards have been placed upon a tall pedestal that no one can achieve. According to the NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association), there has been “a rise in incidence of anorexia in young women ages 15 to 19 in each decade since 1930” (“Get The Facts”). Damaging and negative concepts are established during childhood, forcing adolescent girls to believe that if they can’t fit into

If you’re not skinny you’re not pretty. Little girls and teens buy into this statement since it surrounds their entire lives. According to the American Psychological Association, the portrayal of women in the media has become so unrealistic and sexualized it damages the mental health of girls. Society kills the self esteem of girls and destroys their confidence. Instead of tearing these girls down, we need to build them up. Every girl needs someone to tell her that she is radiant and that she doesn’t need to look a certain way to be considered that. Instead of losing weight to be skinny teach girls to lose weight so they are healthy and can care for their body. I believe that we must not criticize our bodies, but instead learn confidence and body positivity. I believe in body positivity so young girls won't have to experience the same ugly society that I