Body Image Research Paper

When you hear the words body image and self-deception what comes to mind? Well I can tell you most people think skinny, thin waist, nice size boobs, and of course a nice bottom. In our society, we’ve became comfortable with the idea of not being comfortable in our own body. Instead of embracing our shapes and curves we try to turn our body into how society, or how the media believes we all should look as women. “What is the price of perfection, and more importantly, who defines what perfection is? (Stephanie Nicholl Berberick)”To answer this question, the media is the solution to this problem. We see on TV every day of beautiful celebrities with their thin waist, long hair, and petite bodies. As women we feel …show more content…
For example, there was a study conducted in 2006 completed by scientific researcher M. Kurosaki and colleagues. “The researcher showed women pictures of their bodies, when looking at the photos of their body fat, cognitively processed the image in the same way as fearful information.” This shows that women process body image through emotions. “Impulsive and emotional responses can elicit other negative mental and physical responses and prompt emotions such as depression (Kurosaki).” When you think about it all the research being conducted makes valid points, I state this because when women get pregnant, the first thing after birth is getting rid of the baby weight. As you can see the celebrities after they give birth, their bodies are in tip top shape. The point I’m trying to make is that what we see on television reflects on us because of the mass media. We take in what we see and try to reflect on our own lives instead of having our own identity, we tend to seek others or reflect on others. This is what society want us to do, they want us to entertain what we see, and they want us to reflect our lives off of others. They don’t want us to have our own identity, as you can