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    Teens and Body Image Kendra Stevenson CM229-09 Unit 6 Draft Kaplan University December 28‚ 2010 Am I too fat? Would I look better skinny? Am I pretty enough to be a super star? These are questions of an average teenage girl‚ that I am asked daily and not just because she is my child that I tell her everyday you are beautiful in every way. You can be whatever you choose to be in life. Do not go by what others think or say‚ the point is what matters to you. Body Image is how one

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    Body Image In Teenagers

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    about their bodies. Body Image is what you think your body should look like and how you feel about it. Experts on this idea feel that teenagers compare themselves to these images‚ and if they aren’t good enough then they’re considered ugly. These insecurities can lead to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. But girls are not alone boys suffer from this issue as well in fact they make up 10% of eating disorder cases which is caused by Body Image. Since the introduction of social media this issue

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    Body Image In The Media

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    What is Body Image? Body Image is the way that people picture themselves and how they think other people picture them. It’s basically how someone feels about their own body‚ physical appearance‚ height‚ shape‚ weight and many more things contribute to a person’s body image. The media can shape popular culture and often influence the public’s opinion. However‚ if the power of media is abused‚ it can harm the general population. Images portrayed by the media can cause a person to strive to be someone

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    their lips made bigger‚ or some other cosmetic procedure as many are not satisfied with how they look. I believe that today’s media often affects the way people view themselves and causes them to make these changes to their bodies. Millions of people are utilizing social media and the internet every day around the world. The internet is full of images of people and their bodies. Not only celebrities but everybody can feel insecure and unhappy with how they look. Why is this? In our own opinion there

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    Body Image in Media

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    Media affects body image because in every TV show or movie the characters are healthy‚ lean‚ handsome‚ or beautiful. In ads they change the picture by editing the person’s body to make them look unrealistically skinny or muscular. This unrealistic image pushes people to the extreme to gain that image because the media makes it seen that you have to look like that to be attractive and to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. And when people can’t gain that image they then become depressed and/or kill themselves

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    Media and Body Image

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    According to the Media Dynamics publication‚ Media Matters‚ an average adult has a potential daily exposure to approximately 600-625 advertisements in any form. These exposures come from all media mediums; television‚ radio‚ newspaper‚ magazines‚ and internet. There are advertisements for everything from juice to condoms‚ fruit snacks to Viagra‚ Old Navy clothing sales to perfumes and Victoria’s Secret. The media exposes viewers to extremes between harmless and persuasive material and highly sensitive

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    Media And Body Image

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    Media plays a significant role in our society today around perceptions and descriptions of beauty. We all see pictures of youth and beauty everywhere and feel pressured to meet social impossible beauty standards. Our society constantly changing due to the influence of what we see in the media. Humans significantly more dissatisfied with their own appearance after being shown television ad featuring exceptionally slimming beautiful people. People’s reaction to their reflection in the mirror may depend

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    Body Image and the media.

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    Body Image and the media. Studies looking at the relationship between attractiveness and health have shown that individuals differentiate between the two by preferring a lower weight for attractiveness than for health in female faces. These differences have been discussed to be influenced by pressure from parents‚ friends and also media‚ which has been seen to have the highest impact. Women’s but not men’s preferred BMI for attractiveness‚ but not health‚ was influenced by the type of media

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    Sociocultural standards of feminine beauty are presented in almost all forms of popular media‚ barraging women with images that portray what is considered to be the "ideal body." Such standards of beauty are almost completely unattainable for most women. A majority of the models displayed on television and in advertisements are well below what is considered healthy body weight. Mass media’s use of such unrealistic models sends an implicit message that in order for a woman to be considered beautiful

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    Our bodies are what make us who we are ass people. Every person has something specific about them that make them stand out as a human being. If everyone goes around changing everything about them to become the “perfect person” then the individuality of one person would eventually disappear. A society has created the perfect person and idolizes the “perfect body” and expects everyone to look like that. People should take pride in the way they look‚ because no one looks exactly like you. Not just outer

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