Ideal Body Image
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is perfect of them all?
What is perfection? Is it having the perfect hair? The perfect, flawless face? The perfect skinny body or perhaps to be a duplicate of Barbie? For a majority of adolescents, this is the case. We live in a world where the epitome of perfection is exposed on a daily basis. The new model on vogue magazine, Victoria's Secret or the new face on the cover of girlfriend magazine have practically made it inevitable. Different types of media play significant roles in influencing young women in particular causing a beauty standard amongst them in which many would consider harmful. The internet, billboards, movies, music videos, television commercials, magazines and other types of mediums are what we occupy our daily lives with but it is also all forms of how the media is able to reach out and bombard us with their benchmark of beauty. We see perfection being depicted so often that the perception of beauty which the media fosters has been accepted and accustomed as a part of our daily lives. The ideal body image set forward by the media is so built into society's head that it is becoming an expectation. The negative influences of the media pressurize teenagers into gaining that ideal, unattainable body that it becomes a preposterous obsession which affects their safety.
Beauty is …show more content…
By feeding their minds with irrelevant beliefs and forcing this concept that the ideal beauty through different forms of social media could have a disastrous effect of their physical appearance and mental wellbeing. Not only does this give adolescents a false perception, it takes away their ability to think on their own as an individual caused by their striving ambition towards achieving what social media claims to be
What is perfection? Is it having the perfect hair? The perfect, flawless face? The perfect skinny body or perhaps to be a duplicate of Barbie? For a majority of adolescents, this is the case. We live in a world where the epitome of perfection is exposed on a daily basis. The new model on vogue magazine, Victoria's Secret or the new face on the cover of girlfriend magazine have practically made it inevitable. Different types of media play significant roles in influencing young women in particular causing a beauty standard amongst them in which many would consider harmful. The internet, billboards, movies, music videos, television commercials, magazines and other types of mediums are what we occupy our daily lives with but it is also all forms of how the media is able to reach out and bombard us with their benchmark of beauty. We see perfection being depicted so often that the perception of beauty which the media fosters has been accepted and accustomed as a part of our daily lives. The ideal body image set forward by the media is so built into society's head that it is becoming an expectation. The negative influences of the media pressurize teenagers into gaining that ideal, unattainable body that it becomes a preposterous obsession which affects their safety.
Beauty is …show more content…
By feeding their minds with irrelevant beliefs and forcing this concept that the ideal beauty through different forms of social media could have a disastrous effect of their physical appearance and mental wellbeing. Not only does this give adolescents a false perception, it takes away their ability to think on their own as an individual caused by their striving ambition towards achieving what social media claims to be