Just A Girl's Thoughts: The Ideal Body

The Ideal Body

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All Lies

Quotes

•ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2007) — The rail-thin blonde bombshell on the cover of a magazine makes all women feel badly about their own bodies despite the size, shape, height or age of the viewers. A new University of Missouri-Columbia study found that all women were equally and negatively affected after viewing pictures of models in magazine ads for just three minutes.

•Unlimited options to "fix" every "problem," with knives, needles, or lasers—not to mention Photoshop—have created a standard of beauty (Bambi eyelashes! moonlike white teeth!) practically guaranteed to make you want to shatter your mirror.

•Disappointing: Survey Says...Women Are Prouder Of Boobs Than Brains

Feeling Bad

Quotes

•The current "airbrushing" culture leads to huge self-esteem problems – half of all 16- to 21-year-old women would consider cosmetic surgery and in the past 15 years eating disorders have doubled.

•We don't even know we hate our bodies because we take that for granted.

•We see around 5,000 photoshopped images a week.

•Is this the industry taking responsibility for our broken body image, for its power? Acknowledging that they help sell not only clothes, but ideas of which bodies are acceptable?

Feeling Good

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•When I know that beauty is subjective, that nothing terrible would happen if I put on weight, when my desk is covered in annotated research on bodies, do I still feel bad about the way I look? Because none of us lives in a vacuum," she said. Simply acknowledging the pressure doesn't eliminate it.

•Just because someone's not a size 10 it doesn't mean she's a bad person.

•On one hand they're saying 'love your body', then on the other 'fat's bad, the worst thing you could do is be obese. The message 'be healthy and do exercise' is a bit different from 'be happy in your skin', isn't it?