Barbie's Magazine Ad Analysis

She reluctantly opened the door to her psychiatrist’s office. She went to the front counter to check herself in, then she sat down in one of the dark plastic lounge chairs. To her left was a table full of magazines and a newspaper. There on the front cover of the first magazine she saw was another perfect, beautiful woman whom she would never compare to. Making an unwise decision, she grabbed the magazine and kept flipping the pages to more and more perfect women. She looked at their big pretty eyes, their tan skin, their unblemished faces, their long legs, their long eyelashes, their big breasts, and skinny stomachs. As she flipped the pages longer, her self confidence plummeted further. She thought to herself why she couldn't be as perfect as all of them. “Grace?” her psychiatrist called. Grace looked up from her magazine, and followed her into her office. The two women sat down and began to talk.
Grace felt overwhelmed and blurted, “I feel like I’m not good enough. All I want to do is start a diet to get skinnier or get plastic surgery to make me look younger.”
Her doctor explained, “A lot of women fall into depression, and for many different reasons. I noticed when

In a magazine ad for Barbie, in 1965, Barbie is in a box with a scale and a little book. On the front of the book it says, Want to Lose Weight? and on the back, Don’t Eat!. The scale is set at one hundred and ten pounds. This also puts expectations of an unrealistic body type into young girls’ minds. This is a huge problem because girls want to look like Barbie.This is still a problem today. In the 2011 article Get The Facts On Eating Disorder, they say, “Forty to sixty percent of girls in elementary school, age six to twelve, are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat.” I believe this is a very high percentage for such young girls, and it could be a result from them seeing unrealistic body