Female Body Image Effects
The Effects On Female Body Image Through Media
Body image is both the mental picture that you have of your body, and how you perceive yourself when you look in a mirror. Self-esteem is how you value and respect yourself as a person. It is the actual opinion that you have of yourself. Self-esteem impacts how you take care of yourself, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Body image and self-esteem also directly influence one another. If you hate your body, it’s not easy to feel good about yourself. Self-esteem is also related to body mass index. (BMI) is the weight/height index used to categorize people into underweight, healthy weight and over weight. Women with a higher BMI are more likely to have higher levels of body dissatisfaction …show more content…
Melissa Mccarthy, is the most successful over weight comedian. To me, Melissa is a perfect example showing women that you should be comfortable in your own skin. Despite her weight and all the criticism she receives all the time, she is still very outgoing, confident, smart, and funny. Obviously she does struggle with her body image but yet she has a positive attitude towards it. She states in an interview "Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought. But I am weirdly healthy, so I don't beat myself up about it -- it wouldn't help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls."
In order to actually make a difference in the percentage of body dissatisfaction there needs to be dramatic change in the media. Further, a large number of women around the world would like to see women of different body weights and shapes, ages, and everyday women as well as models depicted in the media and advertising. It would help women to see average American women so that they can relate to them a lot easier, rather then getting depressed every time women watch the victoria’s secret fashion …show more content…
Female’s are the easier targets, because of their lack of self esteem, and security with themselves. Woman are more materialistic then males and have more pressure from peers to look a certain way, where as men don’t have as much.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Everyone has a different perspective of beauty, although it should be measured based on what is on the inside not on the outside. The percentage of body dissatisfaction is abnormal and women want to put a stop to it. They want to see larger, or average looking women used in today’s media instead of models under weight, that they give off a unnatainable body
Body image is both the mental picture that you have of your body, and how you perceive yourself when you look in a mirror. Self-esteem is how you value and respect yourself as a person. It is the actual opinion that you have of yourself. Self-esteem impacts how you take care of yourself, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Body image and self-esteem also directly influence one another. If you hate your body, it’s not easy to feel good about yourself. Self-esteem is also related to body mass index. (BMI) is the weight/height index used to categorize people into underweight, healthy weight and over weight. Women with a higher BMI are more likely to have higher levels of body dissatisfaction …show more content…
Melissa Mccarthy, is the most successful over weight comedian. To me, Melissa is a perfect example showing women that you should be comfortable in your own skin. Despite her weight and all the criticism she receives all the time, she is still very outgoing, confident, smart, and funny. Obviously she does struggle with her body image but yet she has a positive attitude towards it. She states in an interview "Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought. But I am weirdly healthy, so I don't beat myself up about it -- it wouldn't help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls."
In order to actually make a difference in the percentage of body dissatisfaction there needs to be dramatic change in the media. Further, a large number of women around the world would like to see women of different body weights and shapes, ages, and everyday women as well as models depicted in the media and advertising. It would help women to see average American women so that they can relate to them a lot easier, rather then getting depressed every time women watch the victoria’s secret fashion …show more content…
Female’s are the easier targets, because of their lack of self esteem, and security with themselves. Woman are more materialistic then males and have more pressure from peers to look a certain way, where as men don’t have as much.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Everyone has a different perspective of beauty, although it should be measured based on what is on the inside not on the outside. The percentage of body dissatisfaction is abnormal and women want to put a stop to it. They want to see larger, or average looking women used in today’s media instead of models under weight, that they give off a unnatainable body