When speaking of body image and the media, first thing that comes to mind is how our bodies should be portrayed to keep up with new trends and body styles. This is shown simply through all sorts of magazine outlets, some such as vibes, Herbalife, victory secret, fashion and GQ. Media has a great way in portraying what the ideal body representation should be and it is mainly advertised through most of our icons and celebrities. In the process of constructing my consciousness raising group, participants Charles, Tone, Chris, Kellie and Lisa observed those magazines announced. Following the 5-10 minutes observing, it came to a clear conclusion that everyone had agreed that bodies were represented as a “perfect body”. My participants expressed
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The message portrayed in viewing these images, shows how media never leaves no one happy with their body and self-image. Clearly excessive advertisement in how a perfect body image should look really brings a lack of self-confidences to those who are unsatisfied with theirs. For example, Chris shared a brief story of how he was a heavy weight kid growing up and he always would look at the GQ magazines and see how the male figures in it would dress. Mostly all who wore slim fit suits had a muscular shape upper body and shoulders. However Chris always wanted to fit that build. So he would constantly go to the gym work out by participating in a bunch of sports but however he said he seem to be putting more of a load on his self. No one ever said Chris body was not perfect it was the difference in what he seen so much by those he was aspired by that made him want to change. Not accepting what he body image was like and being happy with himself cause him to alleviate in “change”. This was also quite a similar story to Kellie’s experience with growing up around the magazines such as Victoria secret and fashion. Both magazines which advertised the essence in beauty through makeup and face products. However Kellie happen to suffer from severe acme problems and she would always try to cover it with makeup to stay pretty as she expressed. Though she looked beautiful without the makeup it was actually the
The message portrayed in viewing these images, shows how media never leaves no one happy with their body and self-image. Clearly excessive advertisement in how a perfect body image should look really brings a lack of self-confidences to those who are unsatisfied with theirs. For example, Chris shared a brief story of how he was a heavy weight kid growing up and he always would look at the GQ magazines and see how the male figures in it would dress. Mostly all who wore slim fit suits had a muscular shape upper body and shoulders. However Chris always wanted to fit that build. So he would constantly go to the gym work out by participating in a bunch of sports but however he said he seem to be putting more of a load on his self. No one ever said Chris body was not perfect it was the difference in what he seen so much by those he was aspired by that made him want to change. Not accepting what he body image was like and being happy with himself cause him to alleviate in “change”. This was also quite a similar story to Kellie’s experience with growing up around the magazines such as Victoria secret and fashion. Both magazines which advertised the essence in beauty through makeup and face products. However Kellie happen to suffer from severe acme problems and she would always try to cover it with makeup to stay pretty as she expressed. Though she looked beautiful without the makeup it was actually the