How Do Body Images Affect Society

Body Image in American is Causing a Significant Effect Among Teens

Body image in America has created a significant impact among youth in society. In fact, they are no longer realistic results; all the political imagery and correctness has gone too far. Very large fashion industries have created a statement of what an individual should be, promoting acreating this forceful brad of how someone should look like . Fashion and cosmetic companies believe that the image being projected is the perfect visual symbolism for America. Their advertising implies that their images represent what is meant by being beautiful and desirable. Many scientists and doctors argue that it is creating a negative impact on youth in many ways, leading to poor health diagnosis and even death. In present day, many things have changed. However, portraying a certain type of body as desirable has not. This generation is being bombarded with unrealistic body images from every direction, putting pressure on American teens to look a certain way.

When I was little I was skinny like a stick.

I remember my family telling me how my pants would fall because no size fit me around the waist, so I would have small and tight belts to help keep the pants up. They would joke around saying I should eat more: I was too skinny; I was a stick; I was small; and they always compared me to my twin sister. She was perfect size; she ate enough; she was healthy (not that I wasn’t healthy)..) But in middle school, I hit puberty and I gained curves. I get that from my dad’s family as they have big legs and a thick body. Still my family compared me to different people. At the time, I was involved in a lot of sports so I was fit. Guys started to talk about my change; it was a huge change for me being a stick to an hourglass, metaphorically

speaking.
Now as a junior in high school, I don’t have time for much as I am involved in different associations; the amount of dedication and time given for homework and assignments is consuming. And now my family is saying I am too fat. I feel embarrassed sometimes, because it does mess with my self-esteem as well as my old depression, and increases my stress. My brothers always compare me to my older sister - she is skinny and could be a model - as well as comparing me to how fit they are. But I work differently. I have gone through the three different classes of body weight - skinny, perfect, husky - and none of these three weights have felt perfect. . Maybe not all are so concerned with their body and the image pushed in society, but body image is important in our society. There are so many teens struggling with insecurities and judgement of their body, because unrealistic body images are so prevalent in teen society
The music video for , “Most Girls,” written by Hailee Steinfeld, starts where she and this gentleman are on a date, but when he compliments her on “her not being like most girls” (2017) and she walks out of the scene. This illustrates that society has implied this image of beauty where one just desires to be just like everyone; the chorus lyrics repeat, “I want to be like most girls”. In an interview on May 23, 2017 at the BBMAs by B96 Chicago, Steinfeld articulated her defense for the complement, emphasizing, “That’s oddly enough not the greatest thing to say to a woman… Little do you know, that isn’t very nice, and I want to be like most girls.”
In America, society itself has created high standards in models, who represent beautiful, strong independent, and fierce characteristics of women.