Stereotypes Of Model Thin

Model Thin
“If you’re thin you are in ” is a recurring motto for many teenage girls. Being thin means they are beautiful, strong and can do whatever they want, or at least that's what the media is trying to say. The beautifully photoshopped models young girls look up see in fashion magazines, videos, articles, runway shows or social networks are skinny and if they don’t have skinny legs, skinny arms, a flat stomach and a collar bone that sticks out sharper than a neon sign saying “I’m thin ”, they are immediately turned down by the media. These portrayals of scrawny models are lowering and razing the self esteem of teenage girls across America and making it difficult for them to like themselves.
Being a teenager is already strenuous, but when media keeps bombarding young girls with images of perfectly retouched models with perfect bodies, they are making it hard for a girl to
She has posted pictures of herself in bikinis that expose her thin silhouette, and unrealistic, yet beautifully captured pictures of her in expensive dresses and enjoying her lavish lifestyle. But recently at the age of 18, Essena reveals that her perfect life was not so perfect. “Without realising, I’ve spent majority of my teenage life being addicted to social media, social approval, social status and my physical appearance! I’ve spent hours watching perfect girls online, wishing I was them. Then when I was ‘one of them’ I still wasn’t happy, content or at peace with myself,” she says. Essena O'neill was a major public figure promoting skinniness and beauty, which could have negatively influenced young girls who follow her profiles, but thankfully she made it clear that her life conveyed on instagram isn’t her real life, it’s merely a bunch of pretty photos she took to feel validated and accepted by her followers