Are you comfortable in your own skin? Do you love everything about yourself? Chances are, you do not. This essay will show you how society endorses an unrealistic body image to strive for, that you should not feel pressured to be like everyone else and you should feel comfortable in your own skin.
Together we will explore what people in society perceive as the ideal figure, the media and business influence on how we see ourselves, how the media uses our self consciousness as a way to make money and how this affects society.
What does society perceive as the ideal body figure? Does anyone honestly know, because in reality when we think about it, does everyone want the same figure? Is what they wish to see in the mirror
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These three figures that have been covered are unattainable and generally unhealthy, we should not feel pressured to look a certain way where even the smallest of clothing does not fit. It is important for society to realise that you don't have to be model thin, Kardashian curvy or chick flick fit, you just have to be healthy and comfortable in your own skin and realise that these bodies are not perfect they are unrealistic and unhealthy. How do media and businesses influence society? They cause people to feel the need to be a certain shape to fit in or to be liked. There are many lengths people go to male and female to achieve the perfect body. As many of us spend our lives wishing we looked like this or like that, it is something the media has picked up on. The media and businesses have turned it into a profit making cash cow, printing magazines with models flaunting perfect bodies on the front cover, companies plastering bill boards and making tv advertisements saying don't eat this food and you'll have perfect sculpted abs in less than 14 days, or go on this fat burning diet and you'll be runway ready in no