Barbie's Beauty And Body Image In America

Defining Beauty Written throughout the pages of modern magazines, lies the destruction and expulsion of girls’ self esteems. Women’s bodies sell everything from food to cars in a lust filled light. They are displayed all around the nation for other women and girls to look upon. Why are standards of beauty being imposed on women, the majority of whom are naturally larger and more mature than any of the models? The answer is economic. By tearing down the average woman’s confidence, they are ensuring growth in the diet and beauty industry. By reading these magazines, taking what they say to heart and furthermore, questioning our own bodies, we are giving in to the profit of such terrible organizations. Women who are insecure about their
Perhaps the saddest part of this tragedy is the simple reality that the beauty found in magazines if often unattainable. Due to technology and the ability to Photoshop every last inch of a woman’s natural body, each and every model is comparable to the doll every girl grows up idolizing. The truth was revealed about Barbie’s structure in an online article titled, Beauty and Body Image in America. Researchers “found that her back would be too weak to support the weight of her upper body, and her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and a few centimeters of bowel. A real woman built that way would suffer from chronic diarrhea and eventually die from
Beauty magazines are only read due to curiosity or boredom. Both of those sources being avoidable, the argument would feed off of the idea that the industry is not shoving these pictures and articles down our throats. However, is spoon feeding it to us any better? Slowly, more and more magazine covers are revolving around the body image no natural woman can compete with. Regardless of the dosage we take of this superficial society’s suggestions and diets, the consequences remain the same. For myself, I didn’t understand how difficult it is to be constantly aware of your weight until it became a problem of my own, forcing me to become much more than simply