Unrealistic Beauty Standards

think they have to look that way to be beautiful. Society has the concept of beauty all wrong. Rosen, Christine, a senior editor at the New Atlantis magazine: “Beauty is what we are granted, through no effort of our own, at birth. “. Therefore beauty shouldn’t be about looks but that’s what society has made it up to be about. Today “What’s natural is declared a flaw when it's airbrushed out of photos, where a woman's waistline is tweaked before her picture is approved for print” (Spenceley). Today’s standards have made it to be where fake is the new norm and real is rare and unacceptable.
These unrealistic beauty standards are causing women to have severe emotional, mental, and physical problems. It’s causing emotional distress which can
To try to convince a person with an eating disorder that they look fine is nearly impossible. They become obsessed with reaching a body type that is unhealthy. Their reality becomes unclear and what they see in the mirror when they look at themselves is completely different from what everyone else around them sees. It should be an eye opening reality to see how this disorder kills people, society must stop emphasizing the perfect body as being stick thin. All these body and self-image issues are not only affecting women but as well as young age preadolescents. Today young girls at age 12 and 13 are struggling with these issues as well. Younger age groups are also feeling the pressure from society to look a certain way. Graydon Shari, author in your face is a writer and media consultant: “ Recent research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that close to one in three preadolescent girls is trying to lose weight and one in 10 shows symptoms of an eating disorder.” These younger girls look up to celebrities as their role models.
Vitelli Romeo, a psychologist in private practice in Toronto,