Wagner Body Image

In their essay "Body Image & the Media" authors, Ballaro and Wagner explore how the media has portrayed the perfect body. Over time the body has changed quite a bit, from being thick and curvy to now fragile. Women started out being the center of the media attention on imagery then it eventually turns to having both women and men. People were doing extreme diets and workouts in trying to achieve the perfect body and from that it started to cause disorders. From the disturbances, people were starting to have come preventions to help people understand and overcome these disorders. Ballard and Wagner displays a list of events in chronological order explaining when this idealized image of someone. According to the authors starting back in 1920's, a picture or mental image of one's body …show more content…
These preventions will help people understand that the media is giving false information on what a perfect body should look like. The authors explain how the picture or mental image of one's body can affect a person and people need to realize that it is becoming a problem. Advertisers and companies are starting to show positive body image that people are all shape and sizes in society. People do not have to be super thin to have a perfect body. Being able to put the word out of body image and media can educate and help people with their problems and get them back to being healthy.
Ballard and Wagner's essay is to tell people that the media is hurting people by the way they view the perfect body. It is affecting both women and men, and there are severe disorders that are affecting people. The authors want to show that medical conditions there are preventions out there in helping people. I could tell that Ballard and Wagner are against body image in the media because it is not realistic and they want people to know that it is not right and it needs to