Many women who married around the 60s, most of their husbands would expect their wives to have a stereotypical model body: Twiggy, Donyale Luna, Patti Boyd and Linda Morand were some of the top 1960s models according to Supermodels of the 1960s by Lauren Valenti. These were some of the most famous models in the 60s in which men would expect their wives to maintain their bodies as these models. From a curvy waist to a flat stomach and a well size butt to please men of an ideal “perfect” body. Not only the bodies but as well as the facial features. For instance,a face show no sign of aging, colored eyes, high cheekbones, small nose, and a perfect smile. Regardless, men were not as harshly judged as women to have body features like abs and muscles.
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Women were suppressed from the media to follow a pursuit set of rules in order to be accepted in the community.The media can be seen as the “abuser” to women because there would always be something that would push women down and unable to see their own true beauty. In addition, not only social media but children books play a considerable role towards little girls thoughts about beauty. Children books such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White show how being a beautiful young girl can lead to a better and successful lifestyle according to Beauty Matters: Hair Matters; Beauty, Power, & Black Women 's Consciousness by Ingrid Banks; The Face of Our Past; Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present. These children literature shows girls in order to receive happiness and find true love one must be beautiful. For example, in the book Cinderella the “ugly” stepsisters had the desire to marry Prince Charming but he never gave a chance to look at them, instead when he saw Cinderella there was no one else he wanted to talk to; in the end Prince Charming married Cinderella. This shows how girls self-esteem would decrease having to know to “live happily ever after” they must be
Women were suppressed from the media to follow a pursuit set of rules in order to be accepted in the community.The media can be seen as the “abuser” to women because there would always be something that would push women down and unable to see their own true beauty. In addition, not only social media but children books play a considerable role towards little girls thoughts about beauty. Children books such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White show how being a beautiful young girl can lead to a better and successful lifestyle according to Beauty Matters: Hair Matters; Beauty, Power, & Black Women 's Consciousness by Ingrid Banks; The Face of Our Past; Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present. These children literature shows girls in order to receive happiness and find true love one must be beautiful. For example, in the book Cinderella the “ugly” stepsisters had the desire to marry Prince Charming but he never gave a chance to look at them, instead when he saw Cinderella there was no one else he wanted to talk to; in the end Prince Charming married Cinderella. This shows how girls self-esteem would decrease having to know to “live happily ever after” they must be