Everyone has heard that the Media basically takes over our lives. The biggest impact that the Media has is on women. Almost all of it is negative and sending a bad message from tweens to teens to women in general, damaging their confidence and body image. With commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and even ads on computers are degrading women and telling them that they have to look a certain way to have the 'perfect life.' Either by picking up guys, having wealth by being beautiful or by just having a social life. Being happy doesn't mean to have that 'perfect body' or 'life', but being happy with the way you are and being confident and comfortable in your own skin. Take Kim Kardashian for example.
Kim said that she liked the body she had before they Photoshopped her. People are to believe this? Not everything is as pretty as it appears. These ads are supposed to make us want their product, but what's the point of having it if it basically isn't even real. The media is telling/showing women to become just like the models either on the runway or in the magazines, when we all know that's not possible with all the retouching they do. The 1st Season of American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, also too stated, "just to let you know everyone in the magazines is Photoshopped! Beyoncé is one of the most beautiful girls in the world but she gets Photoshopped too. We're all human!" Women, even young girls, are seeing more and more fake ads everyday and keep saying "I want to look like that" when in reality the models don't even look like that. You think you're not perfect and aren't like those models, but really you are the same. If the models were so pretty and perfect they wouldn't need to be digitally altered to be made perfect. Women need to step back and realize that being comfortable in their own skin is being 'perfect'.
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