Body Image Of Beauty

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How do you feed about yourself? The ideas of how women see and feel about their appearance have been impacted by several external factors including friends, media, and acquaintances. One of the most common external contributors to the body image of women is the media. The idea of what beautiful women should look like has been programmed into us through the media. While watching television and participating in life, the stereotypical image of beauty ingrains in our brains: healthy, skinny, large breasts, super tall, and an amazingly gorgeous figure. As a result, every day, we wake up with the wish of having an “ideal body” and an “ideal face”. The stereotype of idealized body has serious effect on health. The alternative cause of having an idealized body is women want to increase their attractiveness. Women seem very critic about their own beauty. In a commercial, “ Dove Real Beauty Sketches,” there is a lack of self-esteem on how the women describe themselves from behind the curtain. Dove published survey data asserting, “Only 4% of women globally consider themselves beautiful and 54% agree that when it comes to how they look, they are their own worst beauty critic.” The body images of women in which how women see themselves in the minor or in their mind have become so dramatic. Women are …show more content…

In 2009, the new channel CNN did an documentary called: “ Extreme diet: Life on 800 calories a day.” There is an example in this documentary about 34 years old British woman, Samantha Clowe, died because of undiagnosed heart condition. Under investigation, Clowe was participating in a program called LighterLife, a diet for obese patients to lose weight. The amount of calories, 530 calories a day, that she consumed was the main reason played in the development of her heart condition. This is a clear example on how the extreme diets develop several serious medical

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