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”
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.
A year after Lohan’s breakthrough with the hit movie Mean Girls, began her timeline of arrests, assaults, accusations, and jail. Since 2005, she has been arrested from things ranging from driving under the influence, drug possession, missing court ordered sessions, thefts, and more. In an interview with Oprah, Lindsay revealed that her addiction to chaos stemmed from a dysfunction in her childhood. Lindsay Lohan has changed dramatically after the years of her downfall, physically and mentally. Her life, resulting from the chaos she had worked herself into, is in pieces, and her career is failing. Lohan is considered unemployable and uninsurable due to her history of drugs, arrests, and alcohol. She would have to remain clean and sober for a minimum of 5 years for a chance of getting a coverage plan from insurance. In this moment, only time can heal the damage and trouble she is known for, which is the reason why studios don’t want to take a risk by hiring her. Inside sources claim she’s 2 million dollars in debt, clearing up why she couldn’t hire a lawyer for her recent
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.
To become a celebrity Philadelphia must go through several modifications and electronic implants. Nobody really wants to have these things done to them, but the pressure of society is what drove her to do this to herself.
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
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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
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
The last path is to reinvent themselves. According to Smalley and McIntosh, reinventing is when the celebrity “doesn’t attempt to capitalize on their former fame by becoming their public self”, and also requires a “strong core self that remains relatively intact through their fame”(Smalley and McIntosh, 391). Conveniently Miley possesses both qualities. All Miley’s life she wanted to be a role model to her audience, whether it be a positive/negative role model for young preteens or young women. Also she exclaims no further interest in the identity given to her by Disney, but rather wanted to reveal his true self. While interviewed by the Daily Star Sunday Cyrus has discusses her true feelings about her public-given ego given by her role given by Disney stating “they try to make someone not grow up, but you can’t do that to real, normal people.”(Celebuzz). Miley wanted to no longer be seen as an immature teenager, but redefine herself as a mature women to be taken seriously after her prominent role in Hannah Montanna. Therefore, Miley Cyrus has completely pivoted from being a Disney star and did a 180 degree turn toward becoming an infamous “Wild Child”. “I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I’m this, like, sex freak that really just pops molly and does lines all day. It’s like, ‘Has anyone ever heard of rock ’n’ roll?’ (Huffington Post). However, she doesn’t do these controversial things for her personal benefit, she does it for her publicity. Perhaps later in her career when she actually becomes mature, and loses her fame, she will attempt to regain it back by becoming a role model for adult females who have the ability to demonstrate female equality. With the ever increasing support of feminism currently happening in the United States she could become a women’s advocate once her singing career is over.
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
A tall, glamorous runway model is every girl’s dream. Long beautiful legs, lean body, and beautiful shiny hair is what an average young woman views as an ideal image for a female. If you don’t resemble the images of those stunning Victoria Secret models and Fashion Week models, you suddenly become ashamed of your own body. It is a great life to have with the high pay, fame, drinking champagne on a yacht with famous celebrities and even being on the Vogue cover page. Fashion Modeling Industry has been the most influential source in our young women’s lives. Young girls and young women are seen eating as little as they can, even starving themselves at times to resemble those models. What they don’t realize is that they are contributing to the 2.7 percentage of 13- 18 year olds suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Susan Albers, a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic said exposure to thin models is a great trigger in maintaining an eating disorder. When watching America’s Next Top Model or flipping through a Fashion magazine, these young women don’t apprehend that those models are either naturally slim or they are suffering from an eating disorder themselves, in other words, hostages in the dark hell hid behind those runway curtains. The growing number of young anorexia and bulimia patients, and the number of websites such as thinspiration, where girls put up pictures of their thin bodies clearly suggest that the fashion modeling industry do not at all bear any responsibility in providing healthy, realistic physical role models for young women.
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).
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.