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How the Media Causes Eating Disorders Among Women.
It is an elementary notion that we live in society that is undeniably marked by cultural norms and ideas. Even though women have attained greater opportunity and rights in today's society, the constant pressure on women to be beautiful and thin still persists. The media, in all of its forms, corrodes the minds of women by displaying a seemingly perfect body image that is completely unattainable by the majority. The media constantly dictates the ideal by presenting emaciated models on the covers of Glamour, Teen People, and Cosmopolitan. Everywhere we look, there are images running rapidly on billboards, magazines covers, and advertisements. It is quite apparent, by looking at the skeletal pictures of women, what the media deems as the ideal figure. Unfortunately, women are given this image to aspire to and an idea of what is visually perfect. Although the media's standards for beauty are unrealistic, some women diet excessively to achieve the ideal figure. With the emergence of the modern version of a perfect woman, women across all cultures have been obsessed with body weight and food. The creation of the perfect image has been tremendously important toward the relation to the physical appearance of a woman. Women who possess extremely thin bodies are generally shown on television modeling designers" clothes. While on the other hand, overweight women are rarely seen modeling clothes. Versace, Vera Wang, Dolce & Gabbana, Hollywood, and other famous fashion designers are the true perpetrators that have caused countless women to enter into the world of eating disorders. The media's equation that thinness equals beauty, success, and happiness, is the probable cause of life-threatening eating disorders among women. .
The fashion industry's perpetual fixation on glamorizing thin women makes women who do not fit the normal body type feel insecure about themselves.