Dealing With The Media

At a young age, girls tend to turn to magazines to inspire them on how their look should be. But what is not realized is the overwhelming amount of celebrities and young women who are put into these magazines, yet they are completely airbrushed to look a certain way. Girls who are unhappy with their self-image learn from such magazines such as Seventeen and Cosmopolitan that they should be super skinny. But at our age right now, we already have learned that that is not what the ideal body should be like, and on order to have a healthy state of mind- all we have to do is eat healthy and exercise. What I believe to be the main concern for girls and their body image, is the encounter with people at school. I find that when you see girls walk through the halls, there is a factor of jealousy/judgement about what they look like. You'll hear about what someone wore to school, and judge it and base it according to if you like it. Instead of girls comparing themselves to images in a magazine, which is mainly done in your preteen years- girls at the high school age tend to focus more on who is surrounding them. There are so many types of body images at our school, but that is what makes each person unique.