Unhealthy Body Dysmorphia

How can one’s body be seen as beautiful and one’s confidence radiate, if there is no opportunity to promote those feelings? Today, this concept is relevant in regards to large amounts of media, that do just this. Living in a world filled with photo shopped advertisements and magazines, standards of beauty have created unhealthy body image. Through this disorders like anorexia and body dysmorphia have been given life, and until we begin to change the conversation this cycle will not stop. Although many forms of media choose to promote unhealthy body image, there are some that are now working to stop this mental illness in its tracks. An example of this idea is explored more within this Marie Clare advertisement. Within the advertisement …show more content…
Obtained by the use of photoshop, and camera lighting images become unrealistically perfect, and leave audiences trying to strive for these standards. In the advertisement this message is conveyed with use of the little girl looking down at the scale. Creating a very strong image of the pressures present on females to measure up to standards of beauty and touching on the standards of weight. This standard is even promoted by health professionals through the use of height and weight charts and society’s obsession with a specific numbers on the scale. This does not promote being happy and healthy with a positive body image but rather encourages a negative one. How many times a week do you weigh in ? Is society built around a “perfect” number on the scale? These questions begin to to show just how many standards their are for the body. In addition, cultural standards are shown through the scale, emphasizing how weighing yourself is seen as the norm. This image as a whole can also represent historically women's pressures to hold up to society standards for the body.Finally one might ask, are scales a threat to our happiness and mental