Informative Essay: The Perfect Body Image

The Perfect Body In today society, women are obsess with having a specific body type to make others find them attractive. They want to feed the society’s body type expectations. But what is a perfect body? Does it even exist? However, advertising, boyfriends, and family members often make women feel that skinny bodies are perfect bodies. Every branch of advertising is based on this idea, directly or indirectly. For example, magazines only use pictures of skinny people in the front page to catch reader’s attention. As well as the TV does with the commercials of different products, and most of the time are diet products, presented by celebrities that are really skinny, and good-looking, inviting women to use them to look in the same way. In Julie Mehta’s article “Pretty Unreal,” the author Jessica Weiner states, “If you feel good about yourself, how many products will you buy? So [Advertisers] have to make you feel like you need what they’re selling by using unrealistic images” (2). Unfortunately women still doesn’t notice this fact. In addition, women that have boyfriend think they have to be looking good to keep their men by their side. Being in a relationship, women do a lot efforts, like work out to keep a skinny shape, so their significant other don’t look at other girls. Women also feel the need to compete

Parents criticize them even if they are gaining weight because puberty. In the article “Pretty Unreal” (Mehta 2), Kimber Bishop-Yanke confirms, “I see parents who are concerned their kids are getting fat, but it’s normal to eat more and gain weight during puberty. It’s just part of growing up”. But not all the family members understand this. Also their siblings tend to compare women with the way that they looked when were younger. Or husbands, when women have gotten weight because of a pregnancy, they start giving them all kind of comments making them uncomfortable with their