Analysis: Ideal Body Image

First Draft: Ideal Body Image

We find a lot of females unsatisfied with their appearances in societies nowadays. Although they aren’t obese, they’re either trying to diet or exercise to lose weight and you might even find them counting the calories in their food. It has become an obsession and it’s time they realize that they are wonderful the way they are. Women and young girls should not stress over reaching the “perfect” weight and figure because that ideal image changes from time to time and beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.

Throughout history, the ideal female body has changed several times. In the 1800s the perfect woman’s body carried fat and would be considered overweight today. Moving on to the 1920s it became a boyish straight figure, also known as the “Flappers” and those women were known for their bobbed hair and flat chests. In the 1950s, the Sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe’s hourglass figure was the ideal size and shape. Then it changed to a skinny long-legged figure bought by

(Sapna Maheshwari) With these great profits, the company will make sure that those VS models have bodies that are almost impossible to achieve by regular women to make sure that their products are continuously being sold. And this is a similar case with several companies. Women need to understand that there is no specific standard for beauty. Everything we see in magazines and in commercials that we consider being the perfect size and figure is all edited and photoshopped. According to Media Effects on Body Image women exposed to magazine images of thin-models resulted in a negative effect, specifically, increased feelings of depression, unhappiness, shame, guilt, stress and decreased confidence.” (Van Vonderen, Kristen E., and William Kennelly, page 60) As Jessiemae Peluso said, “You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn't even look like the girl in the