Teenage Magazine Advertisements

On the cover of a teenage girl magazine, there is a beautiful, thin model with perfect teeth and perfect hair. Usually there is a quote from the model where she expresses how she has never been as confident as she is now, and how she loves herself especially with the use of a certain product. It goes on with the model advertising an expensive product. Advertisements tend to bend the truth to make the viewer feel as if they really need their product to be successful in whatever they want to accomplish. For an example, in Dave Barry’s essay “Red, White, and Blue”, he writes how a beer commercial advertised men building a house while drinking beer when in reality men drinking beer, for the most part does not end with valuable results (78). Teenage magazines advertise the definition of perfection with flawless, airbrushed models. This is making teenage girls develop a very low confidence because they feel that they are not as pretty as the airbrushed …show more content…
Teenage girls are looking towards eating disorder to achieve the look of what they see in magazines. For an example, in the article “Teen Girls Become Obsessed over Dieting” a young girl wishes should could become bulimic to be the weight that she thinks is considered beautiful, and the only thing that is stopping her from becoming bulimic is that she is too scared (Dawoodi and Shirian 14). Body weight plays key role for adolescent students for their physical look and psychological wellbeing (Shah, Wasim, and Singh para. 1). Young women want the look of the altered woman in the magazines and is purposely developing eating disorders to try become her. In the essay, “I Know You Are Not Real”, the author writes how magazines are using edited, impractical models and how hard it is to achieve the look as one. Companies are advertising that a young woman should look a certain way to be considered beautiful. (Rollero para.