Body Image

Unlike years ago where young women were taught to be confident, mass media was designed to reach a larger audience by using technology. Technology is all around us and there's no escaping it from the moment a person wakes up to the moment they're asleep, they’re in constant contact with social media and in today’s society, unfortunately advertising is all about appearance so it's rarely used to promote a positive body image. So because of this it causes young women to experience low confidence and self-acceptance, eating disorders and having to deal with society's beauty standards and because of this at some point everyone will have to deal with their body image.
For starters, women today are not taught to be proud of who they are because they’re always being compared and criticized to unrealistic beauty goals. Today, there's a vast variety of plastic surgeons and they do anything from a simple nose job to completely changing one's facial structure. Confidence and self-acceptance involves how much a person values themselves, and appreciates their own worth. This is a critical moment in any woman's life, whether young or old because during puberty a young girl is trying to find herself and during …show more content…
But the average woman in the United States is 5 feet 4 inches and weighs estimate 140 pounds, whereas the average model is just about 5 feet 8 inches and weighs about 110 pounds. And for girls that look up to these models and strive to pursue a career in modeling they sometimes start to suffer from eating disorders after continually being told they're too big too. Two examples of eating disorder are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is when an individual refuse to weigh over the normal weight for their age and height. Bulimia Nervosa is a little more prevalent in today's society it's when an individual binge eating and then self-induced