Media and Audiences

Magazines have a negative effect on body image. Many magazines focus on what an “ideal” female today should look like. When looking through a magazine, many of the articles are based on “How to Look Good”, and some even target celebrities and their bodies. Many people try to attain the same looks as a model seen in a magazine. The media has cemented into so many young women’s brain what “beauty” is. Many people don’t realize that all of the pictures in a magazine are altered and usually misleading. The pressure to look a certain way today is out of control. Statistics say that approximately 1 out of 4 college aged woman have an eating disorder. Magazines and other advertisements in the media portray an unrealistic body image for woman. Ultimately, this causes unhealthy methods of weight control in today’s society.

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