My name is Emily Huerta and I want to share my story. I don’t want to scare you guys, but I think it’s important to warn all of you about the consequences you can face if you fall into the lies media tells all of us about young women. Trust me; I’ve been through it myself. Wherever you go, you see ads. It’s crazy how many of those advertisements contain images of women. You see women half naked in food advertisement and in children’s commercials you see images of very skinny and pretty dolls. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 69% of girls in the 5th- 12th grades reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape. I used to let myself fall into the lie that a women should look just like one of these dolls. I wasn't the prettiest nor was I as skinny as these dolls shown on television and because I wasn't pretty nor as skinny as these dolls I grew up very insecure about everything about …show more content…
I loved the Barbie so much. She was tall, skinny, had a very nice outfit, and was very pretty. I fell in love with it and being a little girl I actually treated it like a friend. That barbie was always there for me. She would help me pick out my outfit every day and would go with me wherever I went. At the age of about ten I would begin to think to myself “why can’t I be as pretty and skinny as you ”. I got so insecure about myself. I began to lock myself in my room and cry to sleep. Why couldn't I be pretty? Why couldn't I be taller? Why can’t I look like Barbie? My mother and father never gave me a positive comment about myself. Not once do remember them telling me “oh Emily you look so pretty today”. This hurt me so much because there would be some days where I tried so much to look pretty and hear those words from there mouth and never did I hear it. I continued to believe that I was ugly and I would ask myself so many questions about my face and the depression