Jean Kilbourne Body Image

I took my first step on campus at my local elementary school at the age of 5. I was afraid. I continued to middle school and then high school. I was even more afraid. Then, entered to what people call, “The real world”, but it is rather a world of costumes which people wear to cover their true inner-beauty.
Everyone has a fear as they go outside their house and into the superficial world which we have developed. This fear drives us to change our consumption in products and even physically change our bodies to mimic the ideal Kim Kardashian. This fear is not the bully we will eventually encounter, but really the fear of individually not fitting in because we are not beautiful, skinny, or have big boobs or a big butt. We are afraid because we
Kilbourne insists, “ Sometimes what you wear to dinner may depend on what you eat for breakfast” says an ad for cereal that pictures a silky black dress” (Kilbourne 134). Kilbourne makes clear that by choosing the healthy option at the dinner table will allow oneself to wake up the next morning in the attractive attire of a silky black dress which media suggests only skinny good looking women can wear. In addition, Kilbourne may imply that if women choose to eat healthy options, this will increase the chances of waking up next to a mate in the sexy attire of the silky black dress. Thus, this creates a false image in women’s mind to strive for a skinnier body image. This relates to the idea of women being objects because it undermines all the factors which make women who they really are which are their personality and inner beauty. By kinning into women solely caring about their body image is a trade off between their dignity and fitting into society. In other words, the advertisement denigrates “overweight” women because basically it states: You are what you eat and if one eats unhealthy fast food, they will not be able to wear the silky dress. Therefore women are giving up their true persona to be someone they believe is