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Media Influence on Teenage Girls Body Image
Media Influence on Teenage Girl's Body Image
Even though practically all teenagers know media
images are unrealistic they still have an influence.
Low self esteem can cause behavioral issues, limit a teenager's achievement, and even cause illnesses.
Those with eating disorders can sometimes feel that they are fine because of overly thin women in the media.
Eating disorders- Have a distorted body image
Anorexia
- Means "lack of appetite"
- Someone with anorexia starves themselves and goes through rigid exercises schedules.
- An anorexic is often proud of the way they look and how they are able to maintain a diet.
Bulimia
- A person with Bulimia will eat large amounts of food and then gets rid of it.
- They get rid of the food by throwing it up or by taking pills.
- Because of the ways they get rid of the food other severe symptoms arise.
Binge Eating
- Binge eating is consuming large amounts of food in a short amount of time.
- Similar to bulimia but doesn't include getting rid of the food.
- Those that binge eat are overweight or obese.
- After binge eating the person has a lot of guilt and feelings of helplessness.
Some examples:
- Dove campaign for real beauty
- About-face, which is a more local organization in California
The French parliament even thought of labeling all images that are public. The label would say something like it has been changed digitally.
Overly thin women in the media set a bad example for teenagers.
The media is a factor of eating disorders.
Companies use advertisements to sell products but these ads are often sexist and make girls think they need to look a certain way
Facts
The average person sees 400-600 advertisements a day from all sorts of technology.
Fashion Models weigh 23% less than the avg. female.
The average height and weight
Models- 5'10 and 110 lbs
Women- 5'4 and 145 lbs
Many eating disorders but main disorders are anorexia, binge eating, and Bulimia.
With the height and weight above, using the BMI ( body mass index) calculator, models are underweight.
And one more thing...
is here
- Some organizations help combat the bad effects of the media while promoting the positive effects.
By Amy Zhang
cite- http://www.counterfeitchic.com/fauxreal/
Picture from Dove campaign for real beauty.
The media is known to lower self esteem which is more damaging than people think.
Self esteem is classified as how a person sees themselves.
Low self esteem can even continue into adulthood.