The media was not any gentler to Kendall’s younger sister, Kylie. Kylie Jenner just recently turned eighteen years old, but you might not think that from looking at her. With her appearance seeming older than most sixteen and seventeen year old girls, she was an easy target for the media. Kylie has been accused recently by tabloids of undergoing a breast augmentation and getting lip injections. Jenner owned up getting lip injections after many months of denying them, calling her naturally thin lips “an insecurity of mine”. At the time, Kylie was only seventeen years old. Many people would argue that the Jenner girls are not the young women girls should be looking up to. They might be right, but that does not take away from the fact that many …show more content…
This wouldn’t surprise anyone who follows the young woman on instagram, because you could at any one of her pictures and read the thousands of horrible comments that are left. Will Rebein, an artist, has taken a stand and is trying to show the public just how cruel many people are to her. He made a short film using video clips of Kylie, and then put a voice over of comments that had been left on her pictures. Some of these comments include, “Kylie is hard to look at”, “Kylie’s face has been absolutely massacred”, “Kylie the troll and her supermodel sister” and “She looks like a monster”. Rebein explained why he decided to do this project and said, “For years people have cruelly commented on Kylie’s appearance, always pitting her against her sisters Kendall and Kim, and suggesting her looks are inferior. It’s unreal that people take the time out of their day to write these comments, and forget that there is a real person potentially seeing these things and internalizing them”. The video is honestly hard to watch. People who write these thing don’t care that there is a chance Kylie will read them, or maybe they hope she does. These types of comments have to get to Jenner. I think people forget that she is only an eighteen year old girl who has feelings like anyone …show more content…
Winter, who is only seventeen, recently had a breast reduction. After the media took note of young star’s breasts, she began to feel extremely self conscious. Winter said in a Glamour interview, “That’s pretty much all I was known for and that upset me. It made me feel really uncomfortable because as women in the industry, we are totally over sexualized and treated like objects”. The way the media treats young women is utterly disgusting, “the hypercritical brand of Hollywood misogyny that turned Winter’s puberty into a punishing period of cyberbullying, critiscm, and oversexaulization.” is a huge problem. Instead of focusing on a young girl’s acting talent, all the media could talk about was an underage girl’s breasts. Every girl has insecurities, but it is different for girls in the spotlight, “Unlike every other teenage girl, Winter didn’t have to motivate herself to feel uncomfortable or obsessed with her body-because she had the media there to overanalyze on her behalf”. This not only affects the girls who are being picked apart in the media, but the little girls who look up to them. Without a doubt, there are teenage girls out there who look up to Ariel Winter because she is curvy and not stick skinny like most Hollywood starlet’s. When they see that Winter decided to get a breast reduction, will that make them feel like there is something wrong
Female beauty ideals are an overwhelming force in teen media. Approximately 37% of articles in leading magazines for teen girls emphasize a focus on physical appearance. This is none to surprising considering two of the top contenders in this media genre are Seventeen and Teen Vogue. CosmoGIRL and Elle Girl were among the ranks of popular teen magazines, but in recent years have become exclusively online publications. Add in a dash of publications Tiger Beat and Bop, and it becomes glaringly obvious that girls are charged with the prime directive of looking good to get the guy. The story becomes more disturbing when the actual audience, which includes girls at least as young as eleven years old, is considered. In a stage when girls are trying for the first time to establish their identities, top selling publications are telling them that their exteriors should be their primary concern of focus. Of course, this trend doesn’t stop with magazines. A study conducted in 1996 found a direct correlation between the “amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos” a...
For this assignment I choose Kylie Jenner. She is constantly in the Public eye and her family is well known around the world also. The Kardashian-Jenner family is always a fascination to the public. The Jenner family and Kardashian family are all connected in some way. The television show “Keeping up with the Kardashian’s” is where a lot of the spotlight comes from.
Societal constructs of bodily perfection have a massive influence on both genders and on all ages. If you look at any magazine, you will see women constantly being compared to each other, whether it is in the “who wore it better” section or in the “do’s and don’ts” part of the magazine, comparing body images and overall appearances. All parts of the media that encompasses our daily lives are especially dangerous for young and impressionable teens because they see people being torn down for trying to express themselves, and are thus taught to not only don’t look like “don’ts”, but also look like the “do’s”. This is dangerous in that women in the magazine set very high standards that teens want to emulate, no matter the cost to themselves or their health. Celebrities have the benefit of media to make them appear perfect: Photoshop and makeup artists conceal the imperfections that are often too apparent to the naked eye. Viewing celebrities as exhibiting the ideal look or as idols will, in most cases, only damage the confidence of both young teens, and adults, and warp the reality of what true “beauty” really is. It makes teens never feel truly content with themselves because they will be aiming for an ideal that is physically impossible to attain and one that doesn’t exist in the real
The celebrity selected for this analysis is Ellen DeGeneres. Emmy-winning talk-show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres is born on 26th January 1958 and she is an American comedian, television host, actress, producer and a writer. With her own talk show, she is one of America's most well-known television hosts.
For years’ alcohol companies have been using high profile celebrities to grab the attention of their buyers. By pairing a face that is widely known to most everyone, with a possible liqueur that most haven’t tried, it portrays to the curious buyer that the product has to be good with a famous face on the cover. Kim Kardashian is a well known television personality. She is known most for Keeping Up with The Kardashians as well as for spotlighting her lavish lifestyle. The advertisement uses her to say that Midori will help the drinker have fun, and stand out, while also portraying a feeling of success, beauty and popularity. If you drink Midori, you can be like Kim.
When the topic of cultural controversy is researched, it is not a huge surprise that one of the first articles returned was about Kylie Jenner and her appropriation of “Black” culture. The article in question was written by Stereo Williams for “The Daily Beast”, an online magazine. He introduced the controversy of Kylie posting pictures of a cake for her bestfriend, Jordyn Woods, that said “Happy Birthday N-word(a)”. As a sign of common sense and respect, for the remainder of the article the untouchable word for White people will be referred to as N-word, if a distinction needs to be made as to the ending, it will be included in brackets following the “word”. Although Kylie denies having any part in the cake, Williams states that the problem
... taking a stand against Photoshop for fear of ruining the careers of actors, actresses, and models. That statement alone proves that society values physical perfection than the health and emotional well-being of people, specifically impressionable teenagers. There are girls everyday who are impacted by the media in one form or another.
Throughout the century, the ideal image of a woman has changed drastically, which can be directly attributed to the powerful persuasion of media. This ideal image has transformed from a voluptuous, size 14, 1950’s Marilyn Monroe to a 5’9, 100 pound, 1990’s Kate Moss. The most shocking aspect is specifically what young girls are now doing to achieve this “Kate Moss” image. Through the utilization of advertisements and stars on the big screen, this female portrayal directly targets the physical and mental well-being of females in cultures across the globe.
The star text of a celebrity can help to decipher their image and transitions they may undergo. In order to better understand these transitions, one must know the definition of a star text. A star text is the sum of everything we affiliate with celebrities, which includes their body of work, promotion, publicity, and audience participation (Jackson, 08/09/16). One must note that “celebrity doesn 't happen because someone has extraordinary qualities – it is discursively constructed by the way in which the person is publicised and meanings about them circulate” (O 'Shaughnessy and Stadler 424). Destiny Hope Cyrus, “an American singer and actress, became a sensation in the television series
The media is a fascinating tool; it can deliver entertainment, self-help, intellectual knowledge, information, and a variety of other positive influences; however, despite its advances for the good of our society is has a particular blemish in its physique that targets young women. This blemish is seen in the unrealistic body images that it presents, and the inconsiderate method of delivery that forces its audience into interest and attendance. Women are bombarded with messages from every media source to change their bodies, buy specific products and redefine their opinion of beauty to the point where it becomes not only a psychological disease, but a physical one as well.
If a teenager or pre-teen is focused on particular celebrities and their goal is too look like them, it is not difficult to slip into acting like them as well, or at least being influenced by their behavior and perceived attitudes. The media abounds with bad examples of celebrity behavior, from Justin Bibber driving recklessly to Miley Cyrus parading around scantily clothed, and although every celebrity is not a terrible role model, a disproportionate amount of them can be found to have shaky morals and seem to have let the attention that they receive affect their behavior. In addition, the perfect bodies that most of them display are not realistic and in some cases not even naturally attainable, thanks to the modern tools of plastic surgery, augmentations, liposuction, and other cosmetic surgeries. The media too contributes to the unreal portrayal of models and famous people by using airbrushing on pictures and other editing that lead regular people to compare their bodies to images that are not even humanly possible. The Barbie-like models that girls compare themselves to and the ripped and muscled men that boys compare their bodies to are often completely unnatural and the people who have somehow attained them are,
“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
"Children are influenced by media–they learn by observing, imitating, and making behaviors their own" (APA, 2001, p.1224). Girl’s as young as 4-years sees Britney Spears music clip “Baby One More Time”, who at the time was a 17-year old girl/world pop icon at the time wearing a school uniform showing off her midriff, wearing a lot of makeup and a short skirt. Disney teen icons such as Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana taking personal photos of herself in “sexy” poses and sending it to her ‘older’ boyfriend and then having it all published all over the internet for the entire world to see. Boys also face sexualization too, as has been seen in Calvin Klein ads, where pubescent-looking boys pose provocatively with perfectly sculpted six-pack abs hawking teen fashion These pop culture celebrities both female and male are always in the media, for inappropriate actions and they’re meant to be role models for children. In fact most of these sexualized celebrities are still children themselves. The sad part is it’s not just sexualization being encouraged in the media other negative things such as violence, drug and alcohol use ...
In American culture today, society's view of beauty is controlled by Hollywood, where celebrities are constantly in the lime-light. The media watches Hollywood's every move, and is quick to ridicule “A-listers” whenever they dare to gain a few pounds or to let an uncontrollable pimple show. The media has created a grossly distorted mental image of what should be considered beautiful, and with almost every junior high and high school-age girl reading and viewing this message, the idea has been instilled in them as well. This view of beauty is causing many teenage girls to become obsessed with a highly problematic and unattainable goal of perfection.
The media has a strong influence on society, both negatively and positively. So when children as young as 6 are being influenced by celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears; we as a society have lost site in what it is to be a positive influence. Kathleen Deveny and Raina Kelly raised awareness in their article “Girls Gone Bad?” which depicts the bad behavior and influences set by celebrities such as Hilton, Lohan, and Spears have any long term affects on young women. Are young women so riveted to the highlights of these celebrities and the media that surrounds their lifestyle that, as Deveny and Kelly boldly puts it, we are raising ‘prosti-tots’? Or can our young women look beyond the bad behavior with lavish lifestyles, and still make a wise decision based on common sense? Not only are young women bombarded with the lifestyle of these celebrities produced by the media but they are plagued with images of how they should behave and what they should look like. This is an adolescent crisis in a young woman’s life because from the stages of preteen to near adulthood is when young women are most susceptible to influence.