Stereotypes: The Negative Perception Of Body Image

Looking through a style, or celebrity magazine can be enjoyable. many people, especially women or young teenage girls pattern their clothing and bodies by what they see in the pages of a magazine. However, what most readers don’t realize that many of the photos are photoshopped and not realistic.

Photoshopping a picture is a picture that has been altered, leaving people to believe that your body has to be a certain way. the writer Esther L. Vargas from Applied Social Psychology announces this can cause a negative perception of one's body images and contribute to developing eating disorders. Harming your body has become an issue today. According to Ipshita chatterjee from Quora people physically harm themselves because they believe that the photoshopped picture is real. Young women and teenagers are starving themselves in order to have that “perfect body”. Also by Esther L. Vargas, she claimed that a collective perception of unrealistic perfection could also be having a negative effect on our happiness. By not having that perfect body that false magazines advertise make women self-conscious. Young teenagers girls don’t understand that your body

does not have to be perfect.
Matthew Saville from Lounge advises how body advertisements are pushing regular everyday people to high-end fashion models to hate their own body and do unhealthy things.

Women do this to try and pursuit the impossible standard of perfection. We should be able to look within ourselves for a sense of beauty and confidence regardless of what fashion advertising is saying. Finding your inner beauty is not easy for most young ladies. No advertisement should make you feel like your body is not good enough for this world. People worry about being so perfect that they don’t recognize the true beauty inside them. You need to be able to learn and love your body no matter what size or shape you are. An unrealistic photoshopped advertisement is changing us to believe that you can’t be happy until your body looks a certain

way.
In USA Today College Dan Reimold stated that in a society where flaws are erased, insecurities are heightened and Americans are surrounded by “picture-perfect” models everywhere they look. Therefore, looking through a magazine it would seem that the world expects young women to look a certain way. If they don't, then they are overlooked by society or made to feel less valuable. Matthew Saville also mentions that the simple fact is that it’s human nature to envy whatever looks like “perfection”. Young women don’t need to get thigh thinning, stomach tightening, or even get face contouring techniques. On account of this you will never achieve the look that you are going for, because the images that advertisements put out are sometimes fake. You can possibly make yourself look like something off a magazine that's been photoshopped. Young women need to grasp the fact that they don’t need to change because a magazine shows them. If more girls realize they don’t have to fit a certain ideal in order to be beautiful, then society will have made a significant progress in overcoming body issues.
In the world that we live in today, social media is used all the time. However, not all social media is real or factual. By the media promoting false images, women strive to look like the false images of cover models they see. If the media would focus healthy, average-sized models and celebrities, young teenagers and women wouldn't go to such lengths to be thin because they would see that their body type is normal. Esther L. Vargas can tell us that actual studies have shown that just visiting websites where women are skinnier can lead to a more negative self- image. Furthermore this increases the desire to become more thinner and wanting to diet or exercise by losing weight.
The manipulation of false advertisement is consuming young woman's brain and convincing them that their body needs to a certain way. Once again Ipshita Chatterjee points out to ordinary people that it's not the manipulation of images thats wrong the problem lies with the people who believe that the manipulation images are achievable. By believing the lies of false advertising can cause you to change in the wrong way. In a way that is not good for your body or your health.