Olivia Campbell, A Plus Size Model: Video Analysis

Every individual is greatly affected by his or her social surroundings. We often hear both women and men striving for a certain appearance in order to impress those who surround them. In the following video, Olivia Campbell, a plus size model, sends out a great message that should help females who feel uncomfortable in their own bodies. Olivia Campbell along with many other plus size females have dealt with criticism from others. Campbell describes in the video how as a child she would constantly receive negative and rude remarks about her body from her fellow classmates in school, which most certainly has emotionally affected her. It came to a point where Olivia Campbell was so intensely stressed that at the age of 15, she decided to drop out of school. Campbell, …show more content…
No matter how much we exclaim we do not care, judgments addressed towards ourselves offend us. In this video, we can make a lot of comparisons to our social influence part one lecture. When Olivia says "I have tried to change but I just can't", gives us a vivid image of impression management. Since, others have labeled her with words such as "fat" Olivia felt that she must control the way she is in order to get a good reaction from others. Throughout the years, Olivia has improved her self-esteem by giving in less to what people critic and authorize her by. In the video we see how emotional Olivia gets when she remembers herself as a child; she would have a hard time handling all the criticism she would receive. But as years passed Olivia got older and came across more judgmental people; she finally came to a realization on how to cope with this problem. Olivia Campbell, like many humans would, performs self-defense, she does all in order to protect herself from all the abusive comments consistently thrown her