Argumentative Essay On Fashion Models

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Whether you realize it or not everyone is influenced or affected by fashion models through the media in some sort of way. I believe that teenage girls are a specific target and remain more so negatively pretentious by this. How so? Well throughout my writing I plan to tell you why I believe this is an issue. Fashion models are aspiring role models to young girls everywhere. Young teenage girls look up to models in this way because they are; tall, thin and all around beautiful. Their weapon of beauty in this case is their use of makeup and even more so their appearance within their weight of figure. The construction of models being “dolled up” with makeup and having to portray their body image in a certain way, so much, that they have to have …show more content…

The average American woman living in the United states is about 5 feet 4 inches, weighing 166.2 pounds. How do they stay so skinny you ask? Most of them eat very sparingly. A former Australian Vogue editor Kristie Clements shares her story; “I was dressing a model from the US on a beauty shoot, and I noticed scars and scabs on her knees. When I queried her about them she said, nonchalantly: ‘Oh yes. Because I 'm always so hungry, I faint a lot.’ She thought it was normal to pass out every day, sometimes more than once.” (https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jul/05/vogue-truth-size-zero-kirstie-clements). This article source was troublesome to me, as it shares the idea that, models get so used to this routine and not being able to eat, that being hungry constantly and fainting from lack of food is just something that happens to everyone and they think nothing of it. Teenage girls see how thin these fashion models are, but are blinded by the insight that they are so unhealthy. Rachel Simmons, a leadership development specialist at Smith College (Northampton Massachusetts) and author, writes an intensive article titled, “How Social Media Is a Toxic Mirror.” This article talks about how social media is seen as a toxic mirror. In my opinion the toxic mirror is how social media is now a place where it allows people, teens in particular the ability to post selfies and pictures of them self in order to compete or compare themselves with others. Social media has become a competition of who looks better, who can get more likes or comments on a picture. Looking for

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