How Does Social Media Affect Body Image

Social Media Effects on Females Body Image
Does Social media really impact the way females see their body? Strong evidence supports that social media has a horrifying impact on female body image. In many cases, some would go as far as committing suicide, because they are not content with the way they look. Because females compare themselves to models and celebrities that is shown on social media, it is clear that there is a distortion from what is real and what is fake. They consider that if they do not look like them, then they are unattractive. Social media on body image lowers females self-esteem, creates eating disorders, and can even go as far as isolating one from others. As a female I can say, that social media affects every female one way or another. Usually females struggle with body image in their early teens, when they are searching for their identity, for some reason, females start to think that if they do not like this or that, they are not good enough. There is no doubt that social media affect body image.
Initially, when females start comparing themselves to models and or celebrities, their self-esteem
It’s horrifying to see how much an image can affect someone. Some of the negative impacts from social media on females body image are that it lowers their self-esteem significantly, it makes girls starve to keep their weight down, causing them to develop eating disorders, and it can make a female stay away from any social interactions, because she feels ashamed and uncomfortable with their body. All of that, because they do not meet the “perfect” body standard. Both females and males have a flawless image of what a perfect body is suppose to look like. What they do not understand, is that nobody is perfect or flawless. Behind the magazines and the movies, there is photoshopping that comes into action, which makes it impossible to have the “ideal” body