Pressure is something every person deals with at some point in his/her life, whether it may be peer pressure, pressure to do the right thing, as well as the pressure to make good and safe choices every day. Now imagine being a 12-year-old girl put under the pressure to be a “perfect” role model for millions of young children. It becomes too much, constantly being judged for every move one may make. The pressure is almost unbearable, Demi Lovato knows all about the pressure of stardom. From her big debut on “Sonny with a Chance” in 2009 at the age of 15. Her life has been anything, but easy. Recently Demi has conquered a severe drug addiction along with an eating disorder. Because of Demi Lovato coming out about her drug addiction and eating …show more content…
She is known for slamming the “thigh gap” trend and has embraced a healthy gym regimen that she keeps people updated with on Snapchat” (2016). Demi loves going to meet and greet, where she meets her fans who have gone through some of the similar situations in their own lives and hear their stories of overcoming their own battles. “Demi can’t tell you the number of girls that will show her their arms covered in scars. They will tell her how much hearing her story has helped get them through it, because of her they have received help for their self-harming or have been getting treatment to obtain sobriety” (2016). Hearing all the girls tell her how much she has helped make a positive difference in their life, it helped give her life a new meaning as well. Demi didn’t enter treatment thinking she was going to become an inspiration. “At times she has been resentful for having that kind of responsibility, but now it has become a part of her life and it holds her accountable” …show more content…
“Demi thanks her 50.3 million Twitter fans and 61.5 million Instagram followers for their endless support, saying she wants to prove recovery is possible and to be the best role model that she can be” (2017). Demi also uses the ‘then’ vs. ‘now’ photos she posted on Instagram to remind herself how far she has come. “Lovato thinks that is what makes her a role model for people, is that she isn’t perfect. It is that she is honest about where she is, but Demi also thinks she has been such a strong advocate for so long for the things that she firmly believes in, as well as the daily battles she struggles with”
In response to the tabloids body shaming, Dolly began to answer interview questions about her weight in hopes of setting the record straight. She explained in an interview with Vanity Fair that her cycles of weight gain and weight loss were the result of personal heartbreak. This answer “played into the rise and fall narratives of love and loss, sin and redemption, popular with country audiences”. Consequently, Dolly regained control over the conversations of her body by providing a story that was much more appealing to the tabloid’s audience. Dolly’s self-empowerment challenged the media’s division of a southern woman’s body and self by connecting her physical appearance to her intimate emotions.
“According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, about 70 percent of girls grades five through 12 said magazine images influence their ideals of a perfect body, a fact that’s plain to see in the online world of teenage ‘thinspiration’” (Krupnick 1). This quote explains that girls in grades five to 12 are more likely to have a lower self esteem because of the idea of a perfect body beinging spread through social media. Models enjoy sharing their work with their fans their instagram and twitter accounts, which isn’t wrong. However, sometimes the pictures they post are exposed subtly, this causes for the pictures to get under someone's skin before they notice. These models, like Kylie and Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, are idealized but billions of people and have millions of followers on social media but all they do is post pictures of them living the luxury life that everyone watches. These posts could either help influence teens to work harder or cause them to try to achieve what they want in a harmful way. Having weight and height limits will lower the self esteem of others because they put out an image that most people think they must look
Surgeons discussed their widespread discomfort about how many people were getting plastic surgery because of these programs. When they were asked what they’re greatest fear is they responded, “The reason for getting plastic surgery”. They believe it is encouraging them to altar themselves in a negative manner. This is also one of the issues that Pink, an American singer, song writer, and actress brings to attention in her video “Stupid
Before the songstress appeared on the pop scene, the name “Madonna” was used in reference to the Christian Mother of God. The original “Madonna” was the symbol of Roman Catholicism and Western Christianity. Madonna the entertainer however proved she was unlike this original female figure. She violated all the innocent icons of religion and femininity and by using the phrase “like a virgin” she began a long string of inserting religious, political and sexual references into the world of pop music.
I have selected Britney Spears as my subject for the reason that I realize that she has been through so much in her life and has a tendency to convey her emotions radically and live life on the edge most of the times. Moreover, I find it simply fascinating to scrutinize Britney Spears’ personality by means of the Psychoanalysis so as to offer deeper comprehension in investigating her personality. Even though this process of personality analysis is hardly ever employed today due to a deficiency of empirical verification and a disappointment to deal with any adulthood impact on personality, the approach’s stress on childhood development is a long way from without foundation. It permits for a fascinating and vibrant examination of personality as it imparts a comprehensive description of why Britney’s id conquers her ego and superego in a majority of her decisions, as well as reciting her fixations within the oral stage of the psychosexual development. By exploring her defense mechanisms, from a spectator’s view it is apparent that she stays clear of anxiety-provoking stimuli by means of warping reality to her own terms. Taken as a whole, this assessment of Britney Spears’s personality does an excellent work via the psychoanalytic perspective as means to reveal/display a lucid conception of her outlook on the world and the connections with her relationships as to why she is this way at the moment.
Lady Gaga wasn’t always the five-foot-two, meat-dress-clad pop goddess she is know to be today. As found in Lady Gaga: A Biography, by author Paula Johanson, throughout the course of her career, she has shocked and challenged the standards of society and the media with her edgy performances and outlandish outfits. From young Stefani Germanotta who grew up in Manhattan to pop sensation Lady Gaga, she has changed the lives of her fans and pop culture in general along the way. Her ascension to stardom despite a quite arduous journey is both an entertaining story and beacon of hope for those who are struggling with life (2012). Along the way, she has taken time to both push the agenda of the LGBTQ+ community, raise awareness for several disorders
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Eugenia Cooney is a youtube star with one million plus subscribers. She does beauty and makeup videos, often dressing up for holidays and making several videos out of them. Eugenia is extremely skinny, with only 88 pounds to her body. She denies she has an eating disorder or other health problem along with her parents. Even after photos of her before she lost severe amounts of weight were leaked to the public she denied, still, that she had a health problem. All of this causes heads to be turned and people worried. Several other youtube stars had made videos about her trying to help her, as most of them say although some of them were being rude to her about her weight. Many of her fans got extremely upset over them saying anything about her and began to attack the people who actually tried to help her. She lost attention because of this and
Now if you add the celebrity status to the equation and include the millions of people who follow and watch everything they do, you get Demi Lovato. Demi Lovato was born in 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She started out as a child actor on Barney & friends. Which is believed to be the when her weight became a problem for her. At the age of eight years old Lovato began to be bullied by the other children around her, for her weight. They called her fat, over weight and told her she didn’t deserve to be there. It wasn’t until the age of eleven that Lovato had lost the battle for control and developed an eating problem. Her mother and her grandmother had both struggled with bulimia. Lovato’s mother used to be a Dallas cowboy cheerleader and a country singer who started to battle bulimia when her and Lovato’s father separated. She was introduced to bulimia around the age 2 or 3 which is around the time she began to notice her 80-pound mother had a problem. It was in her environment and her heritage so it was only a matter of time before bulimia found its way into her life. At the age of 12 demi Lovato completed in child beauty pageants. She states that this is what attributed to her in securities. She started to eat all the time to mask her feelings of being bulled buy other kids and her new fame that was starting to take off. She was cast in camp rock as the lead in a teen Disney movie. This is where she met the
If there is one individual in the celebrity world that is known for his or her troubled thoughts or misbehavior, there isn’t anyone better to recognize other than Lindsay Lohan. An American star, model, and singer, Lohan was recognized in all different aspects of Hollywood because of her talents as a young actress. However, as her stardom continued to progress, so did the instability in her mental health. The mass media and people alike had an influence on Lohan’s behavior by distorting how she was portrayed on and off the screen. Lohan’s family life also had a huge impact on her turnout because she was constantly around the instability of her family members, thus affecting her mental
On the outside Demi Lovato was every young girl’s idol in the late 2000’s. Lovato had her own successful television show, Sonny With a Chance on Disney Channel and starred in the Camp Rock movie series with the Jonas Brothers. However, on the inside she was suffering from multiple mental illnesses. She has suffered from bulimia, self-harm, anorexia, and depression. In 2011, she was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Since hitting rock bottom in 2010 she is slowly recovering from her mental illnesses. Bipolar disorder is described as unusual shifts in mood, activity levels, and energy (Bipolar Disorder). Specifically, Lovato suffered from bipolar depression (Be Vocal). Recently, she partnered with five mental health companies to promote
A couple of years after she got out of rehab, MTV filmed a short documentary of Lovato’s mental health issues called “Demi Lovato: Stay Strong”. Throughout the film, Lovato describes her life as a daily battle to stay healthy. Soon after rehab, she resumed her singing career and was extremely nervous about performing again. However at a meet and greet before Lovato performed, a young girl praised Lovato for her bravery and courage and said that Lovato had encouraged her to not wear her wig that night. Demi Lovato is a prime example of an encouraging role model because she has turned her life with bipolar II disorder into a positive message for her
When Brittany Murphy died, when Lindsay Lohan was jailed, when Britney Spears shaved off her hair, the question was asked – what have we done to these kids? We all love rags to riches stories, but it seems that the people are almost as fond of riches to rags – or let’s say, stardom to failure. What happens when a successful young performer becomes a has-been star? The high-profile troubles of celebs like Michael Jackson and Gary Coleman reinforces the truth that nearly every kid who has worked in the entertainment industry has struggled as an adult. Although some may argue that several child stars have gone on to have stable and successful careers as adults, our contention here is that a lot of celebrities who were exposed to the limelight at a young age become scarred for life by their early success and fame and tend to compensate for the childhood they were deprived of during their later years in life.
Bridget Jones does not live like the typical thirty-two-year old women. From trying to control her bad habits and trying to find potential partners, people might say Jones is not a feminist. According to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, there are many different kinds of feminist (Haslanger 1). You do not have to follow any guides lines to consider being a feminist. Even though Bridget may be struggling with things from drinking to her self-image, I still consider her to be a feminist.
...s herself and her true identity. She realizes that she isn't always going to be the girl that everyone wants her to be but as long as she is true to herself that all that really matters (MTV, 2011).