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Body image

Every year million of women are hurting their bodies just so they could look like these celebrities or the models that are in these magazines. When i look at the women in these magazines i see that both these mgazines are presenting the society with unrealistic body types promoting people especially women, to look like them. Women who focus on unrealistic body image tend to have lower self esteem and are more ikely to fall prey to eating disorders. This would not be such an issue if these images were not reinforced daily on our faces. Last summer i was a counselor at a camp for the children upto the age of twelve to forteen. When asked how many of them were on a diet, almot all of them put their hands up. This came as a shock to me because wheni was growing up and wheni was at that age i didnt even know what dieting meant and today all the girls in that group didnt only knewwhat dieting meant but were also on a diet. They knew more than i did. When i looked at these two magazines there were many advertisements on losing weight. I don't think our society has an issue wih obessity as tey have with eating disorders than why is that there arent any advertisements on eating and gaining weight? In todays society beauty is weighing lesser and lesser. Beauty is now related to being skinny and being skinny is related to being healthy and if you are fat or lets say an average weight, you are considered as ugly and unhealthy. When i look at these magazines specially the cosmopolitan i want to look like these women too. I want to look tall, skinny, and sexy in a bathing suit, but .
             the reality is that not all of us are models and not all of us have all the money to go through surgeries to look like the women on these magazines. What can we do to change all this. Well we cantchange the media and the body size of women in these magazines but there is certainly one thing that we can do which is change our attitude towards these magazines.


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