America's Unhealthy Obsession With Beauty

America has a very unhealthy obsession with beauty. While growing up, the Disney channel had shows where the cast was around late teens and early twenties. Now, the channel seems to be overflowing with twelve year olds who are all dolled up. Beauty these days is all about appearing young. Companies sell anti-aging creams and lotions, plastic surgery such as face lifts are used to counteract aging. There’s a pressure on celebrities to stay skinny and look young even as they inch their way into their fifties. When celebrities start to look old and are no longer considered as desirable from a societal beauty standpoint, they are moved further out of the spotlight and suddenly it becomes much harder to find a way to re-enter the spotlight if only for just a moment. The average American does not look anything like the models you see in commercials or in ads. For some women, it’s practically impossible to have a thigh gap, which is seen as attractive and something to covet. Commercials and ads are constantly photoshopping their products. The impossible model body that most women can never achieve, is made even more impossible thanks to photoshop. Societal beauty standards have now started to affect the younger generation. Almost
Suicide. As a teenager going through school, bullying happens and most of it is directed towards someone’s looks. Some are called fat or ugly or whatever other kind of insult that one can possibly come up with. The incessant bullying about looks can cause someone to lose all hope in ever being attractive. They’ve been insulted, told that no one will ever love them because they’re so ugly, and it can lead to self harm because of lack of self esteem or from acquiring depression. If self harm isn’t enough, it can lead to suicide being the last resort to end the torture they are being put through just because of America’s unhealthy obsession with beauty