Stereotypes: The Negative Perception Of Body Image

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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 …show more content…

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

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