The Price of Beauty

The media does an excellent job of portraying an unrealistic beauty that is typically hard for the average woman to live up to. It is very interesting to see how the women shown in magazines, commercials, etc. actually affect the average woman. Not every woman has the same definition of what beauty is, so body image will continue to be an ongoing struggle of opinions. Advertisements, Television, and the fashion industry define beauty for the women of today, and it often has a negative impact on women’s mental/physical health. Models in Advertisements have no flaws and are made to look 100% perfect. It’s important for every woman to know that there is no such thing as perfect. The models that are created in ads aren’t actually real but women tend to perceive them as real; they are images/illusions that a company has created.
“No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted” (Postrel). The fashion/beauty industry has gone too far in pushing a dangerously thin image that women, and even very young girls, may try to imitate. It’s important to notice how women and even young girls might try to imitate the models in the media. Women look to the media for advice on how they should look and what they should wear. When a stick thin model comes prancing down the runway, then that’s what women think they should look like. Leading to the common and leading quote saying that “Every girl deserves to feel beautiful just the way she is” (Postrel).
By women looking, and watching models in the fashion industry or these beauty commercials, negatively affect women both mentally and physically. Certain people in the industry are justifying, or giving excuses for the way models look in the media. Such as, blaming the issue mostly on that “the biggest problem in America is obesity.” But, what these corporations and ad’s need to realize is that women watch and buy these products to make them feel beautiful instead of making them feel uncomfortable with the way they look. The media