How Does Media Affect Body Image

Everyday teens struggle with the way they look, they feel like they aren’t good enough, skinny enough, or pretty enough. Young girls and women feel insecure about their bodies and physical appearance and often believe they must change their bodies to gain self-esteem. Media creates a negative body image in girls by creating disorders in women, showing unrealistic body images, and making them feel like they aren't good enough. Girls will go to extremes to be skinny, which may result in harming their body. Most commonly eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. In addition research says that looking at magazines for just 60 minutes lowers young girls self-esteem by more than 80 percent, also 60 percent of girls through media portrayals of women are a reason why girls go on diets (“A Distorted Perception”). Girls feel that going on a diet or starving themselves is the best and easy way to lose weight. A recent survey found that only 2% of women in the world would
95% of people with eating disorders are between the the ages of 12-25. Only 12% of people will seek help, 58% of college girls feel pressured to be a certain weight. When girls watch television they mostly see girls with the perfect body, it makes them feel like it's not okay to not be perfect and like perfect is the new normal. Because many girls strive to look this way it leads to eating disorders to become that way or self harm for not looking that way. “Self Image Media Influences - Just Say Yes.” Just Say YES. Web. 20 Nov. 2015. Girls that struggle with self-image try and keep it to themselves because they find it a personal problem. Many girls don’t share problems like this with people because they feel bad about. They usually try to deny the fact that it is a problem. Eventually after they accept the fact they need help the first thing you should do is take them to get