Arguementative Essay
Pages full of slender young models plastered on the pages of well-known magazines. Looking at these pictures you start to feel insecure and unsure of your own body. Our generation of young women are buying these magazines to awe at these images of unhealthy and unrealistic idea of how women should look. These images of skeletal women are ingrained into females minds that this is what society has expected of us to imitate. Even though people believe highlighting slimness in women’s bodies in magazine advertisements could exemplify art and control obesity, thin models magazine advertisements affect women’s self-esteem and cause eating disorders
Today, magazine advertisements highlight the skinniest women on their pages so that generations of women can spend their hard earned money to view models who are on strict diets advertising food, clothes, and accessories. Lynn-nore Chittom and Laura Finley, authors of "Point: Body Image In The Media Is An Unhealthy Picture", summarizing how women’s bodies have been affected by media, stated, “…most models are thinner than 98 percent of American women,” they continued to voice “…advertisements offer mixed messages to women and girls, suggesting that it is essential to look hyper-thin and marketing myriad diet products while at the same time attempting to convince women that food will make them happy” (1). Some models are bulimic or have unusual eating plans, yet these women are praised for having such amazing bodies. However, they are harming themselves to get the look that society applauses. This whole industry gives an unnatural and unsafe manner to body image.
To illustrate, majority of females look to models and celebrities for what society’s expectations are. Society expects all women to be a size 0-2 and still be healthy and in shape. Nowadays if you don’t meet the “requirements” you are considered plus size or overweight. This type of pressure crushes women’s self-esteem. No matter how fit or skinny someone is they
Today, magazine advertisements highlight the skinniest women on their pages so that generations of women can spend their hard earned money to view models who are on strict diets advertising food, clothes, and accessories. Lynn-nore Chittom and Laura Finley, authors of "Point: Body Image In The Media Is An Unhealthy Picture", summarizing how women’s bodies have been affected by media, stated, “…most models are thinner than 98 percent of American women,” they continued to voice “…advertisements offer mixed messages to women and girls, suggesting that it is essential to look hyper-thin and marketing myriad diet products while at the same time attempting to convince women that food will make them happy” (1). Some models are bulimic or have unusual eating plans, yet these women are praised for having such amazing bodies. However, they are harming themselves to get the look that society applauses. This whole industry gives an unnatural and unsafe manner to body image.
To illustrate, majority of females look to models and celebrities for what society’s expectations are. Society expects all women to be a size 0-2 and still be healthy and in shape. Nowadays if you don’t meet the “requirements” you are considered plus size or overweight. This type of pressure crushes women’s self-esteem. No matter how fit or skinny someone is they