Media s Representation Of Body Image - 1532 Words

The influence of the media on all aspect of society has spread like wildfire especially in the United States. One specific influence by the media is body image, large number of young women and girls look up to people in the media and are influenced by the way they look. Now days you’re appraised on your attractiveness, the way you look, the way you dress, and especially how thin you are. The media’s representation of body image has contributed to the social trend of an unhealthy lifestyle. Women and young girls today are fixated on trying modify the way they look to achieve the perfect body image set by the standards of society. Female’s worry about the way they look starting at young ages from the unhealthy image of the Barbie doll to the†¦show more content†¦We are spending countless time and energy trying to achieve the perfect body that the media has created for us. People will pay physically and mentally to achieve the unachievable look that the med ia has driven into our minds. In the media we see so many commercials that are being promoted for the latest developments in weight loss from pills to exercise videos. Our women and children are tricked in to thinking it is okay to force your body full of harsh chemicals to obtain an image that is not obtainable with pills. Another thing we do not normally realize is that children pick up on things they see or hear, often by their mothers saying they need to loose weight or go on a diet, or even cues they pick up on from the media. Or even activities they do that promote being thin can enforce a unhealthy lifestyle including gymnastics and dance. Young girls are putting their bodies through extensive amounts of unhealthy habits and it has placed a risk on our health causing eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. It is more common for girls to develop eating disorders if that’s what they see current influential people in their life doing. There are many health risks to being underweight that include many different nutritional deficiencies like osteoporosis and cardiac problems. This is how many people develop an