Body Image Of Women In Our Society Essay

There are many issues in our society today starting with an ideal "body image" many of us think we need to have, to how bad women are portrayed in our world today. Our body image starts forming at such a young age, when we start getting ideas and messages from the outside world. Our biggest influencers are our family members. Some of us might have parents who are always looking at themselves in the mirror and might say things like "I'm too fat" or "I'm too skinny." Children see this and start judging themselves as they grow up. There are many people who also compare themselves to celebrities, models, and actors, wishing they could look like them. Parents attitudes towards themselves trickle down to their children and in some cases it causes anorexia, depression and sometimes suicide.

Media has a huge impact on the construction of body image today. Mostly everyone in the world is on their phones every day. What are we on? Well some of us are on instagram where we come across pictures of beautiful, skinny models or big, muscular men. When we see this we start looking at ourselves and our bodies wishing we can look like these models. Some of us put ourselves down thinking we can never look like these people in these photographs we see. But what a lot of people don’t know …show more content…
Social media has grown tremendously and it had a positive impact on society economically and maybe socially but it is also the worst thing that could ever happened to us. It can really affect our mental health. I remember when Kylie Jenner got lip fillers done a few years ago; many teenage girls were placing a cup over their mouths and sucking all the air out of it to get their lips to look like Kylie’s lips. The end results for some of these girls were not good, some were getting their lips bruised, and some got their lips cut from a broken glass