Body Image Affects Women

Body Image: How It Affects Girls and Women Kids as young as six are being hospitalised with eating disorders because they see people like the Kardashians, models on television and on social media and even their parents and want to look skinny like them so they eat less, sneek protein shakes in, and even make themselves sick. Young kids,other teens and adults, and society have set unrealistic body expectations based on what they see online, on television, and on the internet from public figures. Societal norms against body image need to be changed because young girls look up to public figures to see what their bodies should look like and when the only images they see are of stick skinny women, young girls can become insecure about their bodies. These images can also cause them to get eating disorders. Changing the idea of the “Perfect Body” would have many benefits but some …show more content…
Skinny models will feel bad about being skinny because of all of the body shaming that’s going around. One person may be completely skinny and perfectly healthy and another person could be larger and have a big struggle with food. Society can’t ban an add showing off a body type. That can hurt the body type making it a publicly bad figure (Friedman). But not having plus sized models makes regular and plus sized people feel insecure. Many plus sized people and regular sized people are feeling hurt and insecure due to no sizes and models that cater to their sizes. A lot of plus sized women are feeling that there aren’t enough sizes and styles for them (Hinckley). This proves that women feel that there aren’t enough sizes that cater to them because these women are coming out to say that they feel restricted with their clothing options. As people can see the fact that there are not a large amount of clothing options for plus sized women makes them feel