Essay On Women And Body Image

Do young women feel more pressure to stay thin from the media or peer pressure?

I located a study done by Christopher J. Ferguson and colleagues from Texas A & M International University in the U.S. They were studying what was a greater influence on teenager girl’s outlook on their body image. The researchers asked 237 young Hispanic girls, aged 10 to 17 years, to name their 3 favorite television shows and to rate the attractiveness of the female actresses in those shows. They also assessed their body weight and height, whether or not they had feelings of inferiority in response to other girls (peer competition), Six months later, and the researchers repeated these measures in 101 teen girls from the initial group. Overall, neither television

Many teenagers struggle with increasing waistlines. In an effort to understand how teenagers feel about their body image,StageofLife.com, asked young adults to participate in its national teen body image survey and “Be the Change” writing

Also, 19,500 laser skin resurfacing procedures, 5,500 chemical peels, and 3,000 dermabrasions were performed.

• Gynecomastia, male breast reduction, accounted for 17 percent of cosmetic surgical procedures for patients age 13-19 in 2010, totaling 13,500 procedures.

(Witmer, 2014)

In the natural order of things 91 percent of women are unhappy with their bodies and

resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Unfortunately, only 5 percent of women naturally possess the body type often portrayed by Americans in the media.

To summarize the article went to say today's models generally weight 23% less than the average woman. Considering the average person in the United States sees approximately 3,000 ads in magazines, billboards, and television every day, your teenager is getting the wrong message about body image much too often.

Media emphasizing the ideal of thinness as beauty When you stop and think about the fact that the average height and weight for a model is 5'10" and 110 lbs, and the height and weight for the average woman is 5'4" and 145 lbs; it is easy to see why girls want to be like models. In conclusion, teenagers start the idea of weight and image at a young age by peer