Skinny legs, no stretch marks a thigh gap that can be distinguished from a mile away. A flat stomach with a clear definition of abs. Long hair with curls that look like a picture perfect image on a magazine. That’s what an “ideal” body type is. Flawlessly beautiful. As a 5’0 muscular girl, body image has always something that been a traumatic issue for myself. Always feeling ashamed for the body that I have. Body image has been a road block of trying to fix myself, or to free the bottled up insecurities to accept the body, I have. Sometimes it can be the simplest of questions that can be the hardest to answer because of the environment and place we live in. To dive into the world of body image, we look at the following concepts, which include
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Nurture. Nature vs. Nurture are the effects of how biology and the social systems on a particular individual behaves. Nature, is how people are shaped as who they are according to genetics and biology. Nurture on the other hand is shaped by learning and our environments that we live in. As a child, I was born being tiny, and muscular. As I grew older my genes of being short and muscular stayed with me. Now as for the “ideal” body type, I couldn’t change how I was genetically made up as a person. It’s hard trying to change your body to an “ideal” body shape when you’re given the features that you have. Given that nature is the main genetic makeup of your body many people find ways to change the look of their bodies. Plastic surgery is one way for woman especially, to alter their bodies to fit the standards of beauty. Plastic surgery gives individuals the opportunity to become what the “ideal’ body type is. Although, plastic surgery can’t change everything to a body it can most certainly change almost everything. Lip injections, breast implants, skin tightening are some of the many procedures that can change the body …show more content…
Nurture, the way nurture can affect the body image all revolves around the environment and the people you associate with. Being a Gymnast for almost 16 years, at a young age I was always faced with constant judgments of what a gymnast body entails. If you were too muscular than you were frowned apron and too skinny meant you were weak. It was a constant balancing act of eating right but working out enough that I could burn off all the calories. The environment of being around coaches that demanding a body type for their athletes made my perception of body image prevalent as a gymnast. Knowing I had to be the perfect balance of muscular and skinny I shaped my life around the words of others and how gymnast like myself ate and lived. Nature, played a huge role on my body image when I was younger, which I think made me so insecure about my body today. Constantly, always comparing myself to others around me. Nature can affect any individual as a whole growing up. If a mother insist that her children are skinny, then she’ll revolve her children around what it means to be skinny. As a mother continues to pressure her children in to be skinny, later on the children will assimilate being skinny with not eating enough, which could then lead to problems with health. Nature vs. Nurture can affect body image in either positive ways or negative. While we can’t change our genetic makeup of the bodies we’ve been given, the way our environment
Nurture. Nature vs. Nurture are the effects of how biology and the social systems on a particular individual behaves. Nature, is how people are shaped as who they are according to genetics and biology. Nurture on the other hand is shaped by learning and our environments that we live in. As a child, I was born being tiny, and muscular. As I grew older my genes of being short and muscular stayed with me. Now as for the “ideal” body type, I couldn’t change how I was genetically made up as a person. It’s hard trying to change your body to an “ideal” body shape when you’re given the features that you have. Given that nature is the main genetic makeup of your body many people find ways to change the look of their bodies. Plastic surgery is one way for woman especially, to alter their bodies to fit the standards of beauty. Plastic surgery gives individuals the opportunity to become what the “ideal’ body type is. Although, plastic surgery can’t change everything to a body it can most certainly change almost everything. Lip injections, breast implants, skin tightening are some of the many procedures that can change the body …show more content…
Nurture, the way nurture can affect the body image all revolves around the environment and the people you associate with. Being a Gymnast for almost 16 years, at a young age I was always faced with constant judgments of what a gymnast body entails. If you were too muscular than you were frowned apron and too skinny meant you were weak. It was a constant balancing act of eating right but working out enough that I could burn off all the calories. The environment of being around coaches that demanding a body type for their athletes made my perception of body image prevalent as a gymnast. Knowing I had to be the perfect balance of muscular and skinny I shaped my life around the words of others and how gymnast like myself ate and lived. Nature, played a huge role on my body image when I was younger, which I think made me so insecure about my body today. Constantly, always comparing myself to others around me. Nature can affect any individual as a whole growing up. If a mother insist that her children are skinny, then she’ll revolve her children around what it means to be skinny. As a mother continues to pressure her children in to be skinny, later on the children will assimilate being skinny with not eating enough, which could then lead to problems with health. Nature vs. Nurture can affect body image in either positive ways or negative. While we can’t change our genetic makeup of the bodies we’ve been given, the way our environment