When most women look into the mirror, they see a negative reflection of themselves. They feel pressured to measure up to a certain social and cultural ideal of beauty, which leads to poor body image. When businesses are presenting an ideal that is difficult to achieve and maintain the cosmetic and diet product industries assured with growth and profit. Media has always had a negative impact on women when it comes to how women view themselves in the eyes of society. When you live in a world filled with ongoing advertisement and a high rate of exposure to beauty magazines, soap opera, movies, or music videos that are associated with higher rates of body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness, females tend to feel a sense of insecurity and loneliness because they don’t belong within the same category with other women that are considered perfect. This type of feelings leads to depression, eating disorders and cosmetic surgery. Dislike for their body image has pushed women to the extremes of serious eating disorders and even further into the depths of depression, causing some to attempt and commit suicide (Pompili, Girardi, Tatarelli, Ruberto, & Tatarelli, 2006). I’m not a female but I can relate to some these problems they go through. There was certain time of my life where I felt insecure about my body and image because the girls at my school were sprung over the guys that were strong, lean and had that bad boy attitude. I was just a skinny teenager, wearing skinny jeans that had great love for R&B music. At the same time, I know that God created us in different shapes and sizes, and their different ways for girls to fall in love with you or at least get their attention. There are different ways and process for females to get help, so they would be able to escape from these dark stages and live a beautiful life without any worries.
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