In today's world, everyone has an opinion on everything and anything. These views aren't always great ones, or ones to be encouraged, but they are out there. And no one can filter everyone out there. So for the first time in history, everyone has a say. This is both brilliant and bad. So many people can see something and wholeheartedly believe its true. Even if it isn't.
One of the biggest issues facing today's teen is body image. What is body image? Dictionary.com's definition is an intellectual or idealised image of what one's body is or should be like that is sometimes misconnected in such mental disorders as anorexia nervosa.
Bad body image is so common these days you can ask children as young as 5 and they'll tell you what they dislike about their bodies, and the lists of dislikes are generally miles longer than the likes. Why is this you ask?
Teenagers spend an average spends 31 hours a week on the Internet, according to a study done by Cyber Sentinel. As we all know, you can access almost anything on there. So its no surprise that most teens will have seen pictures of super skinny, gorgeous people online. Magazines and websites have pictures of their size 0 models. But what accompanies these pictures of skinny beautiful smiling people, is the message "This is what you should be like. Skinny equals Happy".
Celebrities are also partly to blame. Who here isn't jealous of Kim Kardashian's gluteus maximus? Or Emma stone's teeny tiny frame? And yes, they are amazing and always look great, but people don't see the team of make up artists and personal trainers who make all this happen. They just see the final product.
Article comments
1 - Publius
Please ladies, give it a rest. I'm not unsympathetic; and I wholeheartedly agree about the pro-ana sites. Keep in mind though that men are judged on the size of their wallets by hypergamous women.
2 - jane eirye
i like this article its actually gonna help me alot i think