Celebrities Body Image

The thought of oneself is a big factor in today’s society which leads individuals to make decisions that can affect them drastically. With the ability to alter their body, celebrities who serve as a constant ideal, and peer pressure from school or work, it’s hard not to experience a bit of body image thoughts. Today, efforts made by self-conscious children, teens, and adults to copy the unrealistic standards of celebrities or television personalities, are increasing and changing many individual’s interests. Today’s generation has been greatly impacted by the media through celebrities as constant reminders of how everyone must follow in their footsteps. Many teens actually feel shame to these perfect celebrities which often leads them to develop depression, self-esteem issues, and eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia (“AboutKidsHealth”). Even teen magazines pressure girls, young and old, to diet constantly. Many teens use runway twig-thick models as “thinspirations”. “60% of girls that diet, one in five develop and eating disorder” which means dieting, a result of negative body image, is convincing people to choose harm over health and fall into anorexia, bulimia, etc. (Hendrick). Not only are people dieting and developing eating disorders, but they are mutating …show more content…
Rather than focusing on being oneself, people tend to copy and mimic society’s opinions of perfection or what’s “cool”. One company that is trying to do the opposite and help children understand everyone comes in different shapes, sizes, and colors is Barbie. Even though they created the perfect Barbie the company has realized that young children should accept their differences. Body image has affected many people today, ranging from young children to the eldest of our generation, but learning to embrace one’s imperfections and differences can prove that appearance doesn’t have to run their