The American culture guidance on body image in negative ways as well as how they dress, do their hair, what women eat, and how they let their body be presented. Women take part in behaviors to reach the body shape and size of the culture’s thin ideal. The most important part for this study, is that the media subsidizes to the negativity of body image by putting on a show that the skinner you are it is an ideal as a representative and required means to live a happier life, which lead to women forcing some women to take extreme measures to reach the skinny body and starting to put that selfless love for themselves onto other women with a negative body image and let down body self-esteem. The determination of the study was to explore the relationship between the media and body image (Morrison & Morrison, …show more content…
Especially in today’s society media seems to be the main factor impacting on a woman ‘s body concern, and media is as well the key source and most powerful influence on body image perception. Internet, television, magazines and newspaper have been established to play a strong role in creating a current perception of the ideal woman and man. Media portrays images that promise social acceptance for men and women, therefore these body types become desirable, especially by women. In today ‘s society advertisers normally highlight the importance of physical attraction, which often puts the burden on women and men to pay more attention on their appearance. Theses advertisements often have adverse effects on men and women, women particularly, who often have ear of being unattractive or old (Perloff, 2014).This often influences adversely on women ‘s body image should be, and it frequently leads to unhealthy behavior as they struggle for the super-thin body that is flawless by the mass media. Also, men or boys struggle for the muscular media standards. It can be claimed that lack of clearly defined sense of self leads to judgement and wanting to be like