Informative Speech On Beauty

Question: How many of you have every felt insecure of yourself over a picture in any of the different forms of the media like Instagram, TV, the Internet, Magazines,etc, and felt like you had to look a certain way?
With this according to justsayyes.org, “millions tend to want to fit an unrealistic, and unhealthy lie that is provided by images that are airbrushed version of models who weigh 23% than the average woman.”

Thesis statement: Today I want to inform my audience that the perception of beauty in the media has a negative effect on how we look at ourselves and others of what real beauty is.

Preview: In my presentation my main point will be about how long media has effected our perception of beauty, in what forms is our perception of
Photo shop is the most often used to manipulate certain points on an individual whether its from making different parts of the body seem larger or smaller than they really are, smoothen an individuals skin, to getting completely rid of certain aspects of an individual.
According to an interview found on fashionista.com but originally conducted by Buzz feed Shift, on an anonymous retoucher who stated that, “there is no photo that goes untouched before being published.”
Woman are told what beauty is by the average look of supermodels and what it takes to be a supermodel. Taken from a chart on stat.ucla.edu the average supermodel weighs about 118.4lbs and comes to an average height of 5.8 ft.
The media with or without knowing it sends woman and young girls that they are not beautiful unless they wear sizes 0 or 2, and without certain features like long legs, flat stomach, etc, they will not fit the beauty standard of
According to the graph on my presentation originally from yougov.com we can see the difference between this effect on both sexes.
Not all woman turn to the media to view themselves as beautiful, according to healthresearchfund.org “80 percent of women who say that woman on television shows tend to make them feel more bad about themselves.”
Many women, who are encouraged by the media to look to a certain way are often lead to unhealthy ways of achieving this goal.
This includes anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a disease that leads woman to see themselves overweight when they really are not. Bulimia nervosa is more extreme than anorexia because it leads an individual to starve themselves or eat great amounts food lead by vomiting.
Although not all woman are lead to such measures an negative effect is presented on justsayyes.org which stated that on a study conducted 3 out of 4 women said they were overweight when only 1 out of 4 actually were.