Body Image Research Paper

Have you ever felt that you aren’t pretty enough? Do you ever wish you could just change your body? Just about everyone has questioned their mind,body, or themselves. This can be engendered by so many things, most of the time it is caused by visually perceiving an image or advertisement of a person you think is pretty you wonder why you aren’t like that. The complication is that most magazines show this ‘perfect body’ image for people. Today, many young girls will question their own bodies thinking that the only way to be happy is to achieve the foolproof figure. Young women start reading all these magazines about dieting as well as how to achieve the ideal form. I can understand the perspective that being vigorous is critical, however we shouldn’t demonstrate to young girls that if …show more content…
Nowadays many people, especially women, are losing self esteem over the fact that they aren’t as perfect as the models shown on the covers of magazines. Imagine this, you enter your nearest convenience store. The first thing you notice is this magazine cover with the headline, most of the time magazines will show a thin model as well, be the best you can be by losing 15LBS. You probably ignore it but as you ambulate down the aisle you see more and more magazines suggesting to lose weight. Now there is a high chance that you will start reading one. As you read the article the message, of someone being hefty is dreadful along with that being slim will bring you great jubilance, will get stuck in your brain. Many people feel that I could never allow those messages to get stuck in my head, but actually just imagine a little girl, that hasn’t learned how to handle issues with her body, reading that article. As more girls get those messages into their brains the more they will judge themselves and