Essay On Body Diversity In The Media

Turning on the TV, opening up a magazine, or seeing any type of advertisement, it’s likely to see a model advertising the product. Most of the time, if the model is female, she’s tall, thin, and has fairly large breasts. There really doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of body diversity when it comes to the media. The typical female doesn’t look like those models seen on TV or in the magazines, but it’s likely that the average female would really like to look like them. Seeing these images of people with supposedly perfect bodies may impact the way a person feels about themselves. Dangerous behaviors can result from people wanting to look like the models they see in the media. The lack of body diversity in the media will not only influence the way …show more content…
Although, models haven’t always looked like the models seen in media today. In past decades, starting in the twentieth century, the idea of what a perfect body looks like has been altered from glorifying womanly curves, to glorifying extreme thinness. Entrepreneurs responded to these changes by advertising and selling products to women that will supposedly give them that perfect body. Meanwhile, the public responded by giving these women a positive kind of attention. Ideal body image has evolved throughout history, yet the influence it’s had on the public eye has not. With these images surrounding the everyday life of an average person, implementing the idea of what a perfect, ideal body looks like, and how people react to those with perfect bodies, it might make a person wonder, “could that be me?” Maybe if a person thinks that if they apply themselves, if they really try, they can look like a fashion model too. When thoughts like these run through the minds of not only women, but young girls, the result can be close to catastrophic. Young girls tend to be far more impressionable than older women, yet these young girls are still faced with the media’s influence. When this