Body Imaging Has A Negative Effect On Society - 1716 Words

Every night thousands of girls cry themselves to sleep or lean over the toilet vomiting, wishing they looked like the girls they see on media sources. Body image is the way you see yourself and imagine how you look (Positive and Negative Body Images). Society makes girls and women think that if they aren’t skinny, they aren’t pretty and no one will like them. Girls feel pressured by society to have ‘perfect’ bodies, this encourages bad eating habits (Schulten). This affects how thousands of girls see themselves and how they feel about their body. Body imaging has a huge negative effect on society. Although, some may argue that body imaging has a positive effect on girls because it prevents obesity, body imaging is actually a dangerous†¦show more content†¦Since teenage girls don’t think they look like these models, they hate their bodies and are really uncomfortable with them. They aren’t comfortable with being themselves. Young child ren under the age of 10 start worrying about being overweight and worry about their looks. Little girls shouldn’t have to worry about being ‘perfect’. Young girls are influenced to be skinny by all their dolls that are always super skinny and have curves in all the right places, and also have an excessive amount of makeup on. Girls grow up thinking they need to look like that. All the girls they see on television or in magazines, on social media sites, or even in movies are never overweight. Or at least appear to be that way. Magazine companies, television producers, and movie producers will spend months and months digitally editing photos so they look flawless. The girls on magazine covers or on television or in movies will appear to have perfect skin, no stretch marks, no scars, a perfect tan and hardly any fat. If you were to meet these women and girls in person they aren’t as flawless as the magazines. movies and television makes them look. Also, guys see the girls in magazines, in movies and on television, seeing how ‘flawless’ these girls are. They then expect every girl to be like that. Girls then feel like if they aren’t skinny enough, guys won’t find them attractive or even look at them. Girls will go to drastic measures to lose the ‘extra’ weight to have ‘perfect’ bodies, such as