... the average woman. Today that number has risen to twenty-three percent," (Derenne). Today's culture looks up to models and celebrities, therefore, making their bodies the ideal bodies. However, that is extremely unrealistic for most women. Aside from being discriminative about shape and size, the fashion industry is racist too (Racist Fashion). Even though America is racially diverse, the fashion industry ... disorders by using celebrities with eating disorders to advertise for their brands. Women and adolescents think that anorexia or bulimia is the easy way to lose weight. Pro eating ...

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... increases to 78% by age 17," (DMH.) "Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Unfortunately, only 5% of women naturally possess the body type often portrayed by Americans in the media" (DoSomething.org) What most people, ... realize is that media's main priority is to sell something - whether it's a hamburger, makeup, weight loss pills, a car, or a razor blade, and the thing that all those advertisements have in common is the over-sexualization in the ideal body. We've all seen it in the Carl's Jr. advertisements, ...

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