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The Social Pressure to be Perfect
“The perfect body image is the passport of people’s good and happy life”. Now a days society portrays looking perfect as a key of having good partner, popularity, a good and healthy lifestyle, getting a dream job, success and self-confidence. The media and society forces a perfect woman should look very thin as supermodel or celebrity, and a perfect man should be masculine like superheroes and strong athletes. Media can have huge impact on men and women to have perfect body and to be attractive. Research has found that many women are spending billions dollars to be a beautiful woman as celebrity or supermodel while most men are spending money and time on steroid and gym to have ideal image in society. An ideal image of beautiful women is very thin body, Encouragement to focus on appearance is at an all-time high in society and body dissatisfaction puts people at greater risk for engaging in dangerous practice to control aging, weight, and size.
Face is the pressure to be ideal feminine beauty. Most women are spending lots of money on cosmetic to achieve an ideal image of women in society. Many women are trying to meet society’s impossible standard of female beauty. Often women will never talk about their age, and if somebody asked then they would ignore it. “Obsession with a youthful appearance has become commonplace in modern society and has resulted in an upswing in cosmetic procedures trying to reverse the aging process” (web). Most women like to look younger, and they are using
Macwan 2 cosmetics and medicines to look younger. Some women are also having a plastic surgery to look young. In the essay “Love My Neighbors, Hate Myself” Virginia L. Blum stated, “ Cosmetic surgery is no longer...

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Hence, men and women have forced by society and media to have perfect body image. Many People who don’t have a perfect ideal body image are putting their life in greater risk to be a perfect. However, you don’t need to work on perfecting yourself because God made you the way he wanted, and you are special. God never sees outside appearance, but inside appearance. Everyone will die one day, and will lose their beautiful, skinny, and masculine body. So you don’t need to spend time and money on the things which will not helpful after you die. So live life the way you are, because everybody’s body structure is different, and it doesn’t mean that we can only find happiness on our body image, but there are other things in the world that we can find happiness from it: such as spending our time and money with family, friends, and most importantly with God.

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