The Controversy Over The Standards Of Beauty Standards

Do most girls feel comfortable and confident with the way they look? Despite girls being taught by their parents that they are beautiful and should never think they are ugly while growing up, most of them do end up thinking that way. Just because a father may call his daughter his pretty little princess, a girl will think otherwise because things like social media and magazines will tell her she is not. Even though most images of models in magazines are unrealistic, girls suffer from constantly wanting to fit in and self-hate because they feel pressured to have perfect bodies in order to feel accepted.
The majority of the photographs of models or celebrities in magazines are not real. Therefore, girls should not feel obligated to look like

It is often said that “In the 50s and 60s, things were very different. The celebrities back then had real figures, with real curves There was no constant pressure to lose weight, and no internet or weekly gossip magazines flaunting bikini bodies to make us feel inferior” (De Lucia). Six to seven decades ago, not only was the beauty standard more lenient, but it was not as heavily forced onto people. It does not matter what the beauty standard looks like because girls will aspire to be whatever the standard is because it is what is idolized at the time. A trend through history can be seen as “beauty ideal continues to get smaller in our society, body image within American women continues to plummet” (Depicting Body Image). Over the last six to seven decades the beauty standard has only featured women becoming smaller. Which makes it harder for girls to attain with there being a variety of body types. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison acknowledged that “Thirty years ago, Marilyn Monroe, a size 14, had the “ideal” body shape and size, but today’s standard is much smaller” (Depleting Body Image). Before now, women were praised in society for having body types that are not seen as "ideal" today. There are many different body types that can be seen as ideal. All in all, there is no "perfect" body because everyone has a different view on what is

One would not think that “girls as young as 10 are already struggling with body image, more than 80% of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat and 40-70% of girls are dissatisfied with two or more parts of their body” (De Lucia). At such a young age, girls are worrying about what they do not like about themselves which promotes self-hate. Photos that are put out contribute to the girls suffering from self-hate because they make the girls focus on what they see as the negative aspects about themselves. With the internet being as influential as it is, a “Teen YouTuber has sparked tons of controversy and backlash for his video “What Guys Look for in Girls,” a video in which he and his friends dictate what a girl should and should not do. According to the video if they're not the type of girl they describe, then they'll probably ‘never be loved’" (Urquiza). Social platforms are being used to tell girls that they have to look a certain way to please someone else's likes desires. It makes girls think that is the only way they can fit in or be wanted by someone. Camila Vincent De Urquiza brings to light that in the video “Almost every phase begins with "Girls should..." and not "I like a girl who..." (Urquiza). The video displays to girls they should try to have perfect bodies. The boys in the video are saying things that make girls think