http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm
The media influence what we talk and think about is a true statement because as the article above states "Women’s magazines are full of articles urging that if they can just lose those last twenty pounds, they’ll have it all" after seeing thin beautiful women everywhere it often becomes the only thing being thought about, often results in eating disorders, or unhealthy eating habits. To look like the famous actresses or today is an unattainable goal, they are just too underweight. All women and some men think about is how to stay young, beautiful and thin, we talk about it amongst each other, tricks, pills and exercise routines we've heard "work really good" and by work really good we mean, get the weight off fast.
The media show us the images we come to accept as normal is even more true because it really isn't normal for us to expect our bodies to hold up on minimal food and nutrition. Looking at a body that is borderline anerexic should turn our stomach and make us think that there sickly but instead we envy them and wish we had that kind of willpower.
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