Often times, people think that they are over weight when in reality they are normal and healthy. I know that this applies to girls more often than boys. Many women think they are fat which sometimes results in them ending up with an eating disorder. I know of many girls who are in perfectly good health and have a normal body weight who work extra hard at the gym daily and eat barely anything to try to become skinny. This I feel, is due to the unrealistic models in the magazines we read.
The American society is very corrupt. In the average magazine ad, the women models are always perfect and not normal. This gives girls the idea that that is what the desired look is. It is upsetting because people will go through harsh things to try to achieve the "perfect body."
I completely agree with this post. America's view of the perfect body is so severely skewed, that it is boarder line unhealthy. By girls seeing fashion models in magazines, tv ads, and in the news. Girls are using these models to compare the models weight to their own. Fashionwebit.com states that the average fashion model is between 5'9 and 5'11, it also states that they have an average of 13% BMI. A BMI below 18% is considered underweight for a female. America has unrealistic standards of what "the perfect body" is, because they assume the perfect body also means a healthy body.
ReplyDeleteOh god, is this true. Every female I know complains that they are fat, it is absolutely insane. It reminds me that scene in Mean Girls (the movie, boys you won't get the reference) where Catie watches the other girls look at themselves in the mirror and complain and says "I used to think it was either fat or skinny, but apparently there is a lot which can be wrong with a person." Girls in America are made to worry about each little imperfection on their body. Do they really think someone is staring at their arms so intently that they would notice if they had some extra arm fat? I couldn't agree more with you when you said this most likely comes from models in magazines. Girls turn through the pages of Glamor and Vogue and every other comment they make is " She's SO skinny."
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