Many teenage girls are very concerned about their appearance. They want to have the best clothes, nicest hair, prettiest faces, and they want to have nice skinny bodies. Its okay to not want to be overweight, and want to exercise and eat healthy. But many girls go way to far with the dieting and everything that they just end up starving themselves. What is making these girls think that to be pretty they need to be unnaturally skinny? And the answer to that is, models. Teen girls love to look at magazines. In these magazines there are tons of girls modeling clothes, swimwear and under garments, and it just so happens to be that all of these girls are super skinny. So when girls are reading these magazines and they are seeing all of these photos of what these magazine editors consider "beautiful women", the young girls want to look like that too. The other sad thing though is that some of these models actually don't have the perfect bodies that you are seeing in the pictures. A lot of it is just editing. Many of the girls dont have the perfect smooth skin, the tight tummies, the golden bronze skin, or the stick thin legs. The editors use a thing called airbrushing, and they could make anybodys body look that perfect. But they are sending out the message that this is what beautiful is, so it is causing the young girls who dont look that way, to hurt themselves to become a beautiful that isn't really all that beautiful.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-25-thin-models_x.htm
Good job, Kenzie. You use a credible source and have good insights on the topic.
ReplyDeleteI believe you said something about using this issue as your paper topic. I think we'll be able to make that work!