The perfect woman wears a size five and has curves. She also wears at least a c-cup in bras. Long hair and slender legs make you have the perfect shape. If you do not fit this description, then you are considered to be ugly or unattractive. Many people try to change their image to fit those of super models. They begin to lower their self esteem. Once you decide to change you place yourself only the rollercoaster ride of your life.
Women may be more at risk for eating disorders because of a need to have the "ideal" figure often shown in the media. The "thin is best" view can affect girls and young women in particular. They often go on strict diets to look like the girls and women they see in the media. Pressure from friends to be thin and to diet can also happen. For women, body image, or how you feel about how you look, can affect feelings about body weight. Not liking how much you weigh, and wanting to be thin can make you worry more about your appearance than other things, such as your own ideas or what you want to do in your life. Sometimes, young women who are at a normal weight, or even underweight, may feel that they are too fat. .
Once a woman feels she can't lose weight, sometimes she turns to unsafe methods of weight loss. This then leads to them being anorexic or bulimic. Anorexia is a disorder in which people may eat little or nothing at all. The eating disorder known as bulimia comes about when a person overeats and then forces themselves to vomit to maintain the perfect weight. Neither disorder is healthy or safe. Some people just get persuaded that they need to turn to these dangerous methods to be accepted by society.
Society informs us that if we don't look like Halle Berry, then we don't matter. Even though that statement is false, some choose to believe that they must shape themselves in that image. Starving yourself to look like someone else only hurts you in the long run, but people fail to realize that matter.
