Pressuring People To Have “The Perfect Body”
There is not a day where a person does not see at least one picture of a model in a magazine. Anyone can walk through a store and find a magazine with a slim model on the cover. But, that is not all; if they were to keep turning the pages he or she would most definitely find more pictures of models, which all would be skinny. Pictures in magazines like these have always negatively influenced people, but still magazines steadily advertise the models. Both girls and boys young as middle school students, struggle with their body because of magazines and peer pressure from the people whose opinion matters to them the most, their friends. Studies have shown that over 50% of the women in Mississippi have …show more content…
The article also confirms how social media has played a big role in both adults and children's lives (1). Since the mid- twenties, social media has started idealizing body images of both males and females on the internet (1). Authors Ballaro and Wagner declare that the ideal body for a female is thin with large breasts, and males want to be tall, slim and muscular (1). This article clearly tells people how magazines try to influence people to have perfect bodies, which lead them to dieting, trying to build body muscles, and soon becoming ill from all the working out (1). Magazines and articles like these are the number one reasons that people start to have eating disorders. People usually start to want to look like the models in the books or they just get tired of being called fat and start to either eat a great deal of food or stop eating to lose …show more content…
Chelsea started feeling insecure about her weight at the age of eight because Alyssa was smaller than she (74). So, She convinced Alyssa to work out with her and started to learn to accept her body more (74). Alyssa being the slim toned one did not have a problem helping Alyssa because she was her sister and she had only wanted the best for her. Luci, age thirty-one, admits that she has a love-hate relationship with her body (34). Jemima, age twenty- five, admits she had a toxic relationship with her body (34).
In conclusion, body image is not something that people take lightly. Magazines play a huge role when dealing with body image. Magazines have massive control over today’s sociality; therefore whatever a magazine producer publishes in their book the people will want. The world should not be all about how cute someone looks or how skinny they appear. God created us all to be in all different shapes and size so that; no person would look the same because we all are totally different individuals. People should stop feeling like they are not good enough and accept the person they really are. (Body of paper is 1,508
There is not a day where a person does not see at least one picture of a model in a magazine. Anyone can walk through a store and find a magazine with a slim model on the cover. But, that is not all; if they were to keep turning the pages he or she would most definitely find more pictures of models, which all would be skinny. Pictures in magazines like these have always negatively influenced people, but still magazines steadily advertise the models. Both girls and boys young as middle school students, struggle with their body because of magazines and peer pressure from the people whose opinion matters to them the most, their friends. Studies have shown that over 50% of the women in Mississippi have …show more content…
The article also confirms how social media has played a big role in both adults and children's lives (1). Since the mid- twenties, social media has started idealizing body images of both males and females on the internet (1). Authors Ballaro and Wagner declare that the ideal body for a female is thin with large breasts, and males want to be tall, slim and muscular (1). This article clearly tells people how magazines try to influence people to have perfect bodies, which lead them to dieting, trying to build body muscles, and soon becoming ill from all the working out (1). Magazines and articles like these are the number one reasons that people start to have eating disorders. People usually start to want to look like the models in the books or they just get tired of being called fat and start to either eat a great deal of food or stop eating to lose …show more content…
Chelsea started feeling insecure about her weight at the age of eight because Alyssa was smaller than she (74). So, She convinced Alyssa to work out with her and started to learn to accept her body more (74). Alyssa being the slim toned one did not have a problem helping Alyssa because she was her sister and she had only wanted the best for her. Luci, age thirty-one, admits that she has a love-hate relationship with her body (34). Jemima, age twenty- five, admits she had a toxic relationship with her body (34).
In conclusion, body image is not something that people take lightly. Magazines play a huge role when dealing with body image. Magazines have massive control over today’s sociality; therefore whatever a magazine producer publishes in their book the people will want. The world should not be all about how cute someone looks or how skinny they appear. God created us all to be in all different shapes and size so that; no person would look the same because we all are totally different individuals. People should stop feeling like they are not good enough and accept the person they really are. (Body of paper is 1,508