3. Research suggests that disturbance in body
image, mainly in women, is due to mass
media that advertises the ideal image of
“perfection”. (American Psychological Association)
The media creates unrealistic expectations of
young women through their advertisement of
skinny sometimes anorexic models and
celebrities that the media knows people look
up to. (Amanda J. Holmstrom)
4. People Who Are Looked Up To Whose
Bodies Are On Display By The Media.
5. I RONY ?
Celebrity singers sing about beauty inside
and out yet they appear on commercials
promoting weight loss through diets and
getting the thin body you see only on
magazine covers that most of the time are
photo-shopped. Is this helping society live
healthier lives? Or is this really promoting a
look that even celebrities have to photo-
shop pictures of themselves to achieve?
7. Dangers
We are seeing more illness and death do to eating
disorders such as anorexia and bulimia because
of the preoccupation young people have with their
body weight. Research indicates that the
awareness of body shape and what the media
advertises as “good looking” is leading to many
deaths among teens.
The media’s version of the perfect body isn’t
healthy, in many cases, and is leading teens to
reach that “perfect weight” by vomiting or just not
eating. Eventually this leads to depression or even
suicide.
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10. Survey of 2,500 American girls ages 13-18
› 75% wanted to lose weight
› 66% had dieted that year
› 17% used diet pills
› 8% had vomited to lose weight
› 2% had used a diuretic (drug used to increase urine
discharge)
“Anorexia is very much like committing slow
suicide”
o (Maggie Wykes, Barrie Gunter)
11. Out of the 2,500 girls, 0.2%-7.6% could be
considered anorexic
20% of college females in another survey claimed
to self starve
Out of 37,500 girls ages 14-15, 60% felt overweight
even though they were average or below weight
Most who were surveyed said they would feel
happier about themselves and their appearance if
they were skinny
12. Andy: So none of the girls here eat anything?
Nigel: Not since two became new four and zero
became the new two.
Andy: Well, I'm a six...
Nigel: Which is the new fourteen.
Emily: I'm on this new diet. Well, I don't eat anything
and when I feel like I'm about to faint I eat a cube
of cheese. I'm just one stomach flu away from my
goal weight.
Nigel: Corn chowder. That's an interesting choice. You
do know that cellulite is one of the main ingredients
in corn chowder.
13. We’ve all heard the quotes before, but does this
happen in real life?
Young people are pressured all the time to be a
certain size or be buff. But is skinny the source
of happiness and self-fulfillment?
Self-fulfillment comes from being pleased with
how you feel about yourself no matter how big,
small, symmetrical, or uneven you are.
Happiness doesn’t come from being perfect as
the media tries to sell it as. Happiness comes
from confidence that teens don’t have because
the media puts them down for their body size.
14. Born This Way
Learn to love yourself not for the image on the
outside or what perfection looks like, but for the
image you exude from inside yourself.
The media should not have this affect on so many
young people, but it does and it drives kids to
hurting their bodies with starvation to be what
they think is pretty or handsome.
Remember that it’s up to you to define what
pretty is. Don’t let the media decide that for you,
or you will be one of millions.
You control your self love. Don’t ever let anyone
take that away from you.
