Professor Kenyon
Eng. 111-14
October 30, 2013
Beauty Should Not Be Painful Beuty is define in many different way we protrey beuty as someone who looks good, a lot of people look deeper in a person and there true personality. Beuty is defined It is believed women must have all of these qualities to be beautiful. Growing up young women are taught that to be the right size she must be a size zero. Magazines edit pictures to be perfect and most people believe that those people are that perfect. With shows like Toddlers and Tiaras being a trending show, young girls are seeing how they dress and what it takes to be so called “beautiful”. On the television show many of the young girls are forced by their parents to …show more content…
As a parent it is a job to teach your children to be confident in who they are. With television shows that contradict this message it is tough to be confident in oneself. TLC has found if you put that group on a reality television show you can gain viewers thus make money. The popular show many know is Toddlers and Tiaras. Toddlers and Tiaras is a show about these beauty pageants all throughout the United States, and the show will focus on three participants and the journey to the pageant day then you will see the performances. Where the biggest issue is shown is leading up to the actual pageant. All of the preparation, to make a young girl look “beautiful”, this includes fake hair, teeth, eyelashes, smiles, and even fake attitudes. This does not at all represent self-confidence. If one cannot show themselves naturally in a beauty contest how are they to feel confident about their body and appearance. When a young girl first sees a show like Toddlers and Tiaras it may affect her in one of two ways. One she could think it is amazing and want to try it for herself. Or two she may feel intimidated by these girls who look “perfect”, because at such a young age you cannot always pick out what is fake and what is real. Seeing the girl when she is in stage is …show more content…
With influences everywhere to be this “perfect” and “beautiful” woman all she can think about is how she compares to the others. Trying to always be just as perfect as the models who are fake impacts women in negative ways which can lead to tough situations later down the road. Parents that try to put their kids into beauty pageants need to realize that you are only hurting your child in the long run because they aren’t always going to look like that. They will see their true beauty and hate it because they are so used to being fake beautiful. Society needs a reality check because beauty does not depend on if you have flawless skin, if you have great eyelashes or even if you are a size zero. Beauty depends on who a person is inside and out. The most beautiful thing of all is to be a strong, confident, daring, and loving young woman not to be a cranky, angry, starving, and fake