"To all girls who think you're ugly because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. ... " Not only is the fashion industry implying that to be an ideal woman a woman needs to be thin, but they're also implying that to be an ideal woman you have to be white. ... Women and adolescents think that anorexia or bulimia is the easy way to lose weight. ... One Tumblr website called pro-ana-crystalized.tumblr.com is run by a teenage girl who battles with an eating disorder. ... By definition they are people that want to develop an eating disorder as a technique t...

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Men are never expected to eat less in order not to gain weight. ... Nowadays, especially in the United States, where the obesity and weight control is a controversial issue within the females specifically, it is easy for teenage girls and even adult women to get obsessed with the perfect image of women shown in the mainstream media and put huge amount of work and effort to reach to that perfection, or at least get close to that. ... She was 16 years old when she started to think of losing weight. At first, I thought that it was normal for a teenage girl to start working out, eating health...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"A legendary beauty with candy-box looks and sweet nature- (Mulvey 30) was Camille Clifford, the personification of the Gibson Girl. ... Women were constantly trying to lose weight, so sport became an absolute obsession. ... (Mulvey 121) In the mid 50's there was a beginning of the growth of teenage market with film stars like Sandra Dee popularizing the idea of slumber parties. ... The ideal of the time was Madonna - blond with a bright red lips and sunburn skin. ... Thunder of 90's - a tall girl with a short hairstyle or without hair at all or she made her hair l...

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