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In the year 2018 is it quite common to see girls as young as seven years old wearing low cut shorts, crop tops, and even makeup. Showing as much skin as possible while having your face perfectly contoured is the ideal image that most young girls want to have. Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian play a huge role in influencing young girls to be insecure about their bodies. Elizabeth Wissinger does a wonderful job at explaining how celebrities have created female insecurities using Glamour labor. Glamour labor has been being used for years and is one of the reasons behind female insecurities. When you pick up the newest edition of the Cosmopolitan fashion magazine, on the front cover is an image that has been filtered and constructed to display a perfect person. Rather this is done with dieting, personal trainers, or plastic surgery celebrities are glamour laborers who are using glamour labor to achieve their flawless appearance. Glamour labor is defined by Wissinger as “the work of investing time and effort into editing the body and …show more content…

The goal of glamour laborers is to be able to modify their bodies into something that everyone can look at and admire in hopes of gaining a reward for their work. Rather this reward is a modeling job, likes on Instagram, or a contract with a big company, glamour laborers all work to self-promote their bodies to become successful. Due to that fact that fashion trends and the image of femininity are constantly changing, not everyone who works hard to look the best ends up a big celebrity. On the bright side, those who do become successful gain money to buy luxurious houses and appear on magazines covers and shows such as Dancing with the Stars. Not only does the profit they receive for their hard work pay for everything they could ever want, but it also aids to maintaining their glamorous

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This constant fixation on physical perfection has created unreasonable beauty standards for women, ones we cannot possibly achieve on our own. Such standards permeate all forms of popular media, particularly fashion magazines and advertisements. Women are bombarded with the notion that we must be thin in order to be desirable. These images project an

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It shows that they conform to these socially constructed images of a good-looking girl to be accepted into society. As a consequence, it is reflected that the mass media instructs people how they should look; harming their self-image and gender identity and making them lost in these trends of the city

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Media has had a great effect on the way teenage girls view themselves today. Celebrities and supermodels have influences on teenage girls, influencing them to become thinner or beautiful. Magazines, advertisements and TV shows or movies is a way media influences teenage girls to look at themselves and question how they look. (Mokeyane, 2012). Magazines portray the perfect young girls and teenagers believe that they should look like them, and behave like them as well.

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Countless companies like Calvin Klein, Gucci, Bebe, H&M, Forever 21, Hollister and many other brand names try to sell their products using young, beautiful, skinny models with long legs, perfect hair and make-up. Average girl starts to compare herself to beauty standards she can never achieve and tries to come as close as possible by purchasing all these items or what’s worse starves herself to lose weight. This madness doesn’t end on money spent on clothing, make-up and gadgets, eating disorders or low self-esteem. Girls at age of 18 decide to get a nose surgery, breast augmentation or lip injections, while their bodies are still changing. According to National Institute on Media and the Family “study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are unhappy with their bodies.

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Viewing Model's also helps weaken a girl's self-esteem by making them think what they are not Teen girls can develop personal insecurities among themselves Satisfaction (Solution); A solution to the problem would to include more body types to within magazines and not have everything be photoshopped or women having plastic surgery to look better upon themselves. Have all bodies of all different shape and sizes to include a variety/inspiration among young teen girls to be proud of who they are. To also embrace one’s flaws to be shown as a great thing such as freckles, moles, love handles and wrinkles.

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The influence that many communicative media Queen and Kings have been spreading has affected the 2014-2017 population. By any chance, we can see how the media may push younger girls to do makeup, so they can be satisfied with how they look, Or young boys to start working out to look sculpted and have abs. All of this just so they gain the title of perfection throughout

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These images can cause adolescent girls to view their image as bad and do things in order to achieve the “perfect body”. The media has led adolescent girls to be concerned with their weight and body shape, which has led many to dieting and abusing their body to be the perfect

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A few studies looked at the relationship of beauty and fashion magazines and dieting among adolescent females. The study focused on girl adolescents' image on beauty. The study results indicated a large amount of adolescent' girls read these magazines and use the images and ideals to define how they look and create ideals for themselves in relation to their body weight, shape and size.(Thompson 2011). A study similar which also looked at examined the influence of appearance magazine, but also looked at influence on peers and how it creates ideals among adolescent boys and girl Jones(2004) . The study focused on how girls are more likely to have negative self - image and how girls try to achieve these ideals that in reality can not be achieved.

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Your decisions to comply with society’s view of “beauty” are no longer subconscious, but rather are more conscious-driven decisions. Barbie’s slender figure remains idolized; however, it has evolved from a plastic doll to a self-starving model that is photo-shopped on the pages of glossy magazines. You spend hours in front of a mirror adjusting and perfecting your robotic look while demanding your parents to spend an endless amount of money on cosmetics and harmful skin products to acquire a temporary version of beauty. Consider companies such as Maybelline, which have throughout the ages created problematic and infantilizing campaigns and products for women. More specifically consider the “Baby Lips” product as well as the company slogan, “maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline,” that reiterates the male notions of beauty to which women are subjected.

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However, cosmetic surgery is a pernicious practice that not only galvanizes people’s minds to conform to society’s idealistic beauty standards by threatening ethnic diversity through the homogenization of races, but also brainwashes the public with an immutable metaphor that cosmetic surgery is the solution for gaining happiness and boosting self-esteem. To resolve this identity crisis and rescue females from falling into a state of addictive desperation for cosmetic surgery, the media industry must drastically cut down on the use of unrealistic models as definitions of ideal beauty. Instead of propagandizing the skewed images of ideal figures that are generously garnished by Photoshop, more diverse, well-balanced images of female models should be broadcasted to give a healthier psychological perception of reality that the common people can relate with. It is a sad truth that due to the authoritative control and inflexible nature of mass media, society will always have high standards for ideal beauty, which may be even worse in the future. However, given the deleterious effects that over-dependence on cosmetic surgery may bring to female teenagers, perhaps it would be preferable for female teenagers to turn to a safer, more wholesome way of achieving physical beauty: weight

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Beauty Pageants deprive children of their confidence and childhoods because they lower girls self esteem. In today 's society, many magazines, movies, and runways pressure women to look a certain way, and to act a certain way. Young girls, even girls as young as one years old, can be affected by today’s obsession with fitness and perfection. These girls can take drastic measures to change what they look like, even going as far as starving themselves (Freymark 29). Beauty pageants are notorious for highlighting outward looks,and to many girls who believe that they are not beautiful enough, being judged on one 's appearance can cause a devastating blow to a girl’s confidence.

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Many young teenagers are feeling the pressure to live up to the standards of a Victoria’s Secret model, however you only have to Google “Victoria’s Secret Models without airbrushing” to see that these very images that make us criticise our bodies and feel inadequate, are not a true reflection of what these young women look like at all! Like the rest of us, they have round tummies, droopy breasts and blemished skin. If that’s the case, why is this not what we are shown when we flick through Cosmopolitan or Vogue? Not only are we being lied to, our children are too! Are role models obessed with the profit or

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When it comes to advertising, especially for fashion and cosmetics, without a doubt, has a tremendous effect on how women see themselves and how they believe they should look in a certain way. Women’s magazines in particular have a great influence on body image that many research has been done and it has come to a conclusion that majority of young women indeed rely heavily on these articles where they value these so called ‘advices’ or ‘tips’ so much compared to other people. It is no surprise that women these days, especially young women, are very conscious about their image. From having the ideal weight to keeping updates on the latest trend in fashion, they really have it all figured out. And some can be very persistent in either achieving or maintaining these things in life.

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Meaghan Ramsey's TED Talk "Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you" is a powerful speech about low body confidence. Ramsey talks about how society's pressure to be perfect is one of the main reason for young girls' (and boys') low body confidence and how these feelings of low esteem can impact their lives and futures. I chose to analyze this speech because I have experienced low body confidence and I have felt those feelings of low self-esteem. In Meaghan Ramsey's speech "Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you", she discusses how low body confidence is undermining academic achievement, damaging health, and limiting the economic potential of today's youth who are growing up in a world of social media. Ramsey has a strong start to her speech, using a photo and a story about her niece to gain the attention of the audience.

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The way women are portrayed in media today is not helping their advancement. Media, specifically advertising, photoshops women and bends the reality of their real appearance, causing girls to form self-esteem issues. When women and young girls are shopping they see models in photos or advertisements that have “perfect bodies,” and aspire to look like them because

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