Media Body Image

Many people in our world today are obsessed with how they look. A countless number of people have changed the way they look, some have had their teeth whitened, their lips made bigger, or some other cosmetic procedure as many are not satisfied with how they look.
I believe that today’s media often affects the way people view themselves and causes them to make these changes to their bodies.

Millions of people are utilizing social media and the internet every day around the world. The internet is full of images of people and their bodies. Not only celebrities but everybody can feel insecure and unhappy with how they look. Why is this? In our own opinion there is always someone better looking, physically fitter or healthier than ourselves.
It is shocking enough that in the world we live in today people accept all the “editing” and “fixing” that is done to people.
I believe the media has persuaded people to think this is acceptable but in reality people who believe this to be tolerable are blinded and do not see how much it is destroying many people’s self-esteem.
The media may seem to be changing its ways and stopping more of these images being produced, but generations have been brought up to think that there is nothing wrong changing the way people look by photoshopping people, making their waist sizes slimmer, their chest sizes bigger and their skin to look flawless.
Personally what I find most shocking above all is that in today’s world it is estimated that around 93 million selfies are taken each day; the average person spends around two hours on social media everyday and teenagers spend more than a third of each day on social media.
Research that has been conducted in recent years found that more than 80% of men talked about their own or other men’s looks. These men talked about “lack of hair, slimness and
In one article I read, it talked about “How the media makes men hate their bodies too”. The article talked about the difference between men becoming bulkier and being “nearly not buff enough” and women wanting to become more petite and slimmer. The key words talked about in the article about women were how they want to “lose” weight or “trim” down.
In the same article it talked about men desiring the complete opposite: wanting to “add inches” and “building" their bodies. This article showed that even though we may hear about women’s body image more often than we do about men’s, males just like women have insecurities and can feel the need and want to become bulkier and have a more tanned skin look. The media shows that both men and women have an ideal look and that every man and women should look like