One's body is what makes us who we are. Every single person is unique due to an individual physical quality. Even though everyone has an outlook about what his or her flawless body would be, altering one's individual features would take away from uniqueness. Body image is how people picture themselves and how they think other people see them. It is essentially how you feel about your body, and it includes your imagination, feelings, and physical perceptions. Throughout time media has been able to form popular culture and repeatedly impact society’s opinion. However, when the power of media is used in a manipulated way it can harm people. Images shown by the media tend to make people attempt to become someone else's idea of ‘perfect’ while subconsciously
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For instance, men and women who think they are overweight don’t eat, just because “they want to lose weight” which can lead to eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. Bulimia is a food disorder triggered by psychological insecurities, the symptoms include; obsessive exercise, taking laxatives, and vomiting. Anorexia is a similar disorder where one loses excessive amounts of weight often by eating barely anything and vomiting the amount of food that is consumed. Also men who believe they aren’t muscular enough take damaging substances such as steroids to build up their muscles and they have been widely proven to cause brain cancer, stunted growth, and shrinkage of the testes. Many student-athletes use these performance enhancers in an attempt to become as muscular as the men often portrayed by media. This problem is also present in female teenagers as well. To some girls, steroid use is comparable to diet pills and laxatives. The abuse of these drugs is partly a result of inaccurate advertising as well as the young person's desire to look and perform as well as the superstars shown in various forms of …show more content…
Advertisements and the media only aim to make a profit but along the way they are changing the realism of body image and leading girls to believe beauty is only skin deep. Media has an impact on a female’s mind in such a destructive manner that it regularly causes these females to look at themselves in displeasure and repulsion. Self-esteem is the judgment and value you have for yourself. Low self-esteem is often caused by the lack of positive body image. It has been reported in America that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are unhappy with their bodies and this grows to be 78% by the time girls reach seventeen. Having a low self-esteem may appear like an unimportant issue to some what they don’t realise is that it leads to much more serious problems that can even result in grim consequences. According to an article written by a college graduate, Kelly Small, "girls with low self-esteem are more likely to suffer from depression, consider or attempt suicide, or be more willing to engage in unhealthy sexual
For instance, men and women who think they are overweight don’t eat, just because “they want to lose weight” which can lead to eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. Bulimia is a food disorder triggered by psychological insecurities, the symptoms include; obsessive exercise, taking laxatives, and vomiting. Anorexia is a similar disorder where one loses excessive amounts of weight often by eating barely anything and vomiting the amount of food that is consumed. Also men who believe they aren’t muscular enough take damaging substances such as steroids to build up their muscles and they have been widely proven to cause brain cancer, stunted growth, and shrinkage of the testes. Many student-athletes use these performance enhancers in an attempt to become as muscular as the men often portrayed by media. This problem is also present in female teenagers as well. To some girls, steroid use is comparable to diet pills and laxatives. The abuse of these drugs is partly a result of inaccurate advertising as well as the young person's desire to look and perform as well as the superstars shown in various forms of …show more content…
Advertisements and the media only aim to make a profit but along the way they are changing the realism of body image and leading girls to believe beauty is only skin deep. Media has an impact on a female’s mind in such a destructive manner that it regularly causes these females to look at themselves in displeasure and repulsion. Self-esteem is the judgment and value you have for yourself. Low self-esteem is often caused by the lack of positive body image. It has been reported in America that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are unhappy with their bodies and this grows to be 78% by the time girls reach seventeen. Having a low self-esteem may appear like an unimportant issue to some what they don’t realise is that it leads to much more serious problems that can even result in grim consequences. According to an article written by a college graduate, Kelly Small, "girls with low self-esteem are more likely to suffer from depression, consider or attempt suicide, or be more willing to engage in unhealthy sexual