When one person opens up a magazine, they see a variety of things. On one page they may view an ad saying love your body the way it is, but on the cover they view a photoshopped celebrity who looks to weigh less than 100 pounds. Studies from a survey show that “69% of girls ages 10 to 18 confirm that photographs of models and celebrities in magazines inspired their desired body shape”(Facts about eating disorders). It seems hard for a person to love their body when the promotion of a perfect body appears in everyday life. However, the perfect body image appears as only one of the leading causes of eating disorders. The three main eating disorders include anorexia which is the fear of being fat, bulimia which is the act of eating food but then
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The idea of body image can range from how a person views themselves to how other people views that same person. However, the idea of the perfect body shows up everyday in most lives. For instance, Lesli J. Favor writes “Articles and interviews about upcoming films commonly include accounts of how an actress or actor lost (or, rarely gained) weight to prepare a role”. Magazine articles commonly analyze the weights of actors and actresses. The commonality of these analizations makes it easier for the readers to compare their lives to the celebrities. In addition, Fowler also explains that even a person who with perfect healthy can find it difficult to obtain the same physique of celebrities. The blatantness of the celebrities’ weights strives readers to obtain these weights, but many will never have the ability to obtain these weights. Just because a celebrity has a skinny body does not mean that that they have perfect health. The public does not know how the celebrities become skinny through their training, diets, or even eating disorders they might have themselves. Nonetheless, people still go to any measure to try and achieve the unrealistic body of celebrities. In addition, the idea of the perfect body appears all across social media too. In 2014 some of the biggest trends include hashtags like “thighgap” and “thinspiration”, but many tried to achieve these goals in the wrong way. Such as the idea of using likes for motivation, many use social media to complete tasks like "1 like = 2 hours of fasting"(Rojas). Users think that using social media will help motivate them to lose weight or to support others to lose weight. But in reality when the likes add up to about ten, that means about twenty hours of no eating, which becomes very dangerous. Social media spreads the idea of being thin all around the world in seconds, making it easier for users to
The idea of body image can range from how a person views themselves to how other people views that same person. However, the idea of the perfect body shows up everyday in most lives. For instance, Lesli J. Favor writes “Articles and interviews about upcoming films commonly include accounts of how an actress or actor lost (or, rarely gained) weight to prepare a role”. Magazine articles commonly analyze the weights of actors and actresses. The commonality of these analizations makes it easier for the readers to compare their lives to the celebrities. In addition, Fowler also explains that even a person who with perfect healthy can find it difficult to obtain the same physique of celebrities. The blatantness of the celebrities’ weights strives readers to obtain these weights, but many will never have the ability to obtain these weights. Just because a celebrity has a skinny body does not mean that that they have perfect health. The public does not know how the celebrities become skinny through their training, diets, or even eating disorders they might have themselves. Nonetheless, people still go to any measure to try and achieve the unrealistic body of celebrities. In addition, the idea of the perfect body appears all across social media too. In 2014 some of the biggest trends include hashtags like “thighgap” and “thinspiration”, but many tried to achieve these goals in the wrong way. Such as the idea of using likes for motivation, many use social media to complete tasks like "1 like = 2 hours of fasting"(Rojas). Users think that using social media will help motivate them to lose weight or to support others to lose weight. But in reality when the likes add up to about ten, that means about twenty hours of no eating, which becomes very dangerous. Social media spreads the idea of being thin all around the world in seconds, making it easier for users to