Hannah Elliott Miss Rich English 10, period 4 19 September 2014 Distorted Ideals Cause Harmful Problems Women’s Health Magazine points out that, “Models who are thin, youthful, and beautiful, in reality represent five percent of Women in America (Fisanik).” Flip through almost any magazine, watch almost any television show; the media has created a perception of how woman should look and women have begun to believe they must live up to this. This perception has created many problems with the body image of America and negative body image can lead to eating disorders and other harmful effects. In reality the image the media has created only represents a small number of women in the United States. Colbie Caillat’s song Try accurately analyzes the media’s ideal woman and how it negatively affects the body …show more content…
“Get you shopping on, at the mall, max your credit cards/You don’t have to choose, buy it all, so they like you/ do they like you” (Caillat 24-26)? Colbie Caillat’s song portrays how the fashion industry wants women to conform to their ideals no matter the consequences. This is portrayed specifically in the line “max your credit cards;” the fashion industry does not care the lengths a woman will go to, to achieve an impossible ideal. In fact “Over ninety-nine percent of the population does not live up to the ideal portrayed in the fashion industry” (Fitzhugh 27). The fashion industry continues to pressure women to conform to an ideal which only applies to a very small portion of women in America. The ideal only applies to the few whose careers are based in the fashion industry because of the negative effects associated with striving for this ideal. The images in the fashion industry are causing women to go to dangerous extents to reach this ideal image. The fashion industry does not seem to care the lengths women go to reach the pressured ideal