Everyone Is Beautiful Imagine a girl with a plate full of food but can’t bear to take a bite. The little food that she does eat, every calorie is painstakingly counted. That same girl weighs herself more than twenty times a day and examines herself every time she walks in front of a mirror. She compares herself to every other girl and can’t find beauty in herself. Many girls go through eating disorders. It isn’t as if one day she wakes up and decides to have an eating disorder, but rather the insecurities that have grown within her by seeing media’s images of an impossible body to model. She may skip a meal one day, and then another, and decide that it’s not too difficult, so she continues. Then it starts to spiral down to a state
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The images of women are so often photo shopped, which makes the women have smaller thighs, waist, arms, legs, and a bigger chest. These pictures portray an unrealistic idea of what a woman should look like. One can conclude that when girls see these images, it transforms their mindset of what “beauty” is defined as. Therefore, girls will make an effort to try to become like the models through any means necessary of losing weight. From the article, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in 2010, eighty-seven percent of female characters in television ages ten through seventeen are below average weight. When girls watch their favorite television show and see women who are thin, they may begin to think it is normal to be thin and make changes to their eating habits. The photoshopped and televised images of women put high standards and expectations of what girls should look …show more content…
People with this eating disorder can also have increased tooth decay from stomach acids from vomiting. These eating disorders make girls have a mindset that they have follow through with them and do it over and over. After a period of time and become necessary. The Emily Program Foundation states that “Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating are not a choice. They are serious mental illnesses which can have devastating impacts.” When girls go through these eating disorders, one can conclude that when they start they become more insecure and obsessed about the idea of losing weight, that it becomes a mental illness where they don’t care how they treat their bodies
The images of women are so often photo shopped, which makes the women have smaller thighs, waist, arms, legs, and a bigger chest. These pictures portray an unrealistic idea of what a woman should look like. One can conclude that when girls see these images, it transforms their mindset of what “beauty” is defined as. Therefore, girls will make an effort to try to become like the models through any means necessary of losing weight. From the article, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in 2010, eighty-seven percent of female characters in television ages ten through seventeen are below average weight. When girls watch their favorite television show and see women who are thin, they may begin to think it is normal to be thin and make changes to their eating habits. The photoshopped and televised images of women put high standards and expectations of what girls should look …show more content…
People with this eating disorder can also have increased tooth decay from stomach acids from vomiting. These eating disorders make girls have a mindset that they have follow through with them and do it over and over. After a period of time and become necessary. The Emily Program Foundation states that “Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating are not a choice. They are serious mental illnesses which can have devastating impacts.” When girls go through these eating disorders, one can conclude that when they start they become more insecure and obsessed about the idea of losing weight, that it becomes a mental illness where they don’t care how they treat their bodies