Supermodel

with an endless amount of women boasting about their latest exercise routines and diets they swear by. Television has become nothing but twenty minute long commercials, endorsing their latest beauty product with promise to transform you into a supermodel. It is a thing of the past to catch a model featured on an advertisement with their flaws and all. Instead, we are exposed to models with airbrushed complexions, skinny waists and bronze skin. It is this reality of media in the…

Fifty years ago the Kardashians would have been shunned. Their continuously promiscuous behavior would be something to hide; it certainly would not have been celebrated and broadcasted through a show that is going on its seventh season. Today, Kim Kardashian has 27 million followers on Instagram. The Kardashians are so famous that even my senile, eighty year old grandfather could tell you who they are. Their show has given them a platform to show their wealth and the profits that they’ve made as…

disparity juxtaposed across class, regional and ethnic prejudices. All this is overcome with the help from the male coach who ‘disciplines’ them. Portraying the flipside of the fashion world, the movie Fashion (2008) revolves around the story of a supermodel incapable of handling her own…

Beyond The Spotlight: The Misrepresentation of Women TLC’s original music video, “Unpretty” and Susan Bordo’s essay, “Material Girl” critiques the way women portray themselves by society’s definition of beauty. Women will compete for their spouse’s attention against other females with sexually, idolized bodies because they feel they lack certain aspects. Women must learn to love themselves before they…

they can be owned like cattle on a farm. Another advertisement that shows the complete opposite representation of females, photographer Meg Gaiger captures a little girl between the ages of 8 and 10, sitting down with cut outs from magazines of supermodels scattered around her. She has one of the pictures from the magazine sitting on her lap that she seems to be particularly interested in. The girl is grabbing her stomach with one hand while she has scissors in the other hand, giving the…

Today’s society revolves around the idea of perfection even though perfection is unreachable. The standards for beauty have gone above and beyond over the years as societies advance further with technology. The way we feel, think, perceive and act, regarding our bodies, is currently based on how society feels and thinks. Girls feel they are pressured to be perfect due to social media, photoshopping, magazines and toys designed for girls. First, girls feel that they are being pressured to be…

Seeing and writing four is an educational tool published by Bedford/St.Martin’s Boston and New York. This complex book consists of several analytical stories, poems, and literary pieces that convey a specific message or idea for the readers to learn. If this book were to be revised and replace some work with more relevant stories, poems, or literary pieces one that could be replace would be “The Story Of My Body” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Judith Ortiz Cofer grew up in the United States, as a young…

People with Eating Disorders Amanda Beard Amanda Beard is an olympian athlete who at the age of 26 had 7 olympic medals in swimming. She suffered from an eating disorder called bulimia. When she was doing photo shoots she was always in a swimsuit and when they edited the photos they would take off inches of her skin to make her look perfect so that's what she thought she had to look like. She wanted to be a great swimmer but she wanted to look pretty, skinny, and perfect. She had dealt with the…

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been taught about what a girl should and shouldn’t do, what a girl should or shouldn’t wear, and even what a girl should or shouldn’t be. And as I got older my identity has slowly conformed to these gender ideas. But, what if when I was younger I hadn’t been taught about gender and what if gender ideals wouldn’t have been pushed onto us by the media? Would I be the same person that I am today, or would I be someone completely different? I would hope that I…

Deputy Collector Customs Naveed Bugvi said the traditions staff captured a female traveler at Benazir Bhutto Islamabad International Airport (BBIIAP) for endeavoring to sneak remote coin worth $506,800. Later, she was recognized as Ayyan Ali, a supermodel and on-screen character, he included. He said the model was going to Dubai by flight EK-615. "We got particular data that an endeavor of coin carrying will be made through Rawal Lounge. Traditions Collector Zeba Azhar framed a unique…