The Media's Loss of Reality When Dealing With Body Image.
Have you ever felt distraught with yourself because of the images around you? A famous person once said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In the eyes of society, women like Cindy Crawford, Daisy Fuentes, and Naomi Campbell are the epitome of perfection. What girl would not want to look like them? Unfortunately, a number of girls want to be just like them. Every year, millions of people are hurting themselves trying to be carbon copies of these sex symbols. The media presents society with unrealistic body types promoting people, especially women, to look like them. Whatever happened to motivational songs, and words of encouragement. Now everything in our media revolves around the appearance of how one is supposed to look. Now everyone has, at one time or another, wished that they could change something about themselves. For many people, the desired change involves something about their appearance. What is this focus that people have on their body as a whole? It is their body image. Body image is something that everyone has. It affects the young and the old. Both males and females are influenced by body image. It impacts the poor and the rich. Just how important is body image in our society? Today, in the Western culture it seems that for many young people, young women in particular, looking good is an extremely significant part of our lives (Brumberg, 21) For some their happiness and self worth come to be largely determined by their body image. Whether or not their body size, body shape, measurements, and so on match the society's ideals decide how satisfied they are with themselves. Sometimes this body image becomes even more important that ones health and well being. Where does ones body image come form? Research has suggested that biological, psychological, and social factors play an important in the development of ones body image .