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In the United States, millions of Americans strive to live up to the beauty standards created by its new society surrounded by unreal, exaggerated views of the ideal of perfection made by social media. These exaggerated views from the media (C) promote an unhealthy lifestyle, and they influence extreme measures needed to achieve these beauty standards (A). A countless amount of men and women trying to obtain these standards, resort to detrimental and damaging choices. Beauty standards (A) have shown a correlation to lowered self-esteem and eating disorders (B). The way the media (C) portrays perfection causes insecurities about body image, and it can cause harmful eating disorders (B) due to these insecurities. Eating disorders are any range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits. In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men have suffered from an eating disorder at some point in their life.
Today, approximately 68% of United States adults own a smartphone. These mobile phones allow for internet access from almost anywhere in the country. Internet access allows men and women to use apps such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. These forms of social media, which contain images …show more content…

The goal of the campaign was to inspire all women to have confidence and comfortability with their natural beauty. Unilever’s mission strategy is, “To make a woman feel comfortable in the skin they are in, to create a world where beauty is a source of confidence and not anxiety.” In the first campaign, it was shown that only 2% of women actually consider themselves beautiful. This is a huge example of how media takes a toll on the way people view themselves. When being compared to another body that meets the beauty standards, the average American has an entirely different body. This leads to unhealthy dieting, and it leads to severe problems with the

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Moreover, Body Image, Media and Eating Disorders states that 30% of children are dissatisfied with their body image due to being overweight and 15% are dealing with obesity (Derene & Beresin, 2006). This demonstrates that the number of children watching television and the number of overweight, obese children are involving their selves more into the media rather than more crucial events. Correspondingly, the average model is 23% thinner compared to 25 years ago (Ravelli & Webber, 2012). Today’s media has an impacting effect on how women should appeal themselves to others in society. This guides them to behave a certain way and not truly be themselves.

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It is clear that society is responsible for cultivating a community in which beauty and thinness are interdependent. According to Lintott, “the average woman is preoccupied, if not obsessed, with thinness” (66). She argues that this comes directly from exposure to modern media, which “bombards us with images of impossibly thin models and exceedingly skinny actresses, among whom the rates of eating disorders are extremely high” (qtd. in Lintott 67).

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