Today's society gives girls a harsh image. So many think you're supposed to look either skinny, or fit. You're supposed to have the perfect hair and the perfect skin. Marilyn Monroe gave the "new image" to society that you are beautiful in any body form you have. Magazines, TV shows, music videos, really any form of media creates unreal images of what girls look like. Girls, young girls, watch all these shows and see what they believe they are supposed to look like and that's wrong. Girls should go through life thinking they are beautiful the way they are, not trying to change their appearance based on what society says is beautiful.
One show that I find has a major influence of young girls is the VS Fashion Show. You know the girls that are on this show, the "Angels" and you know many girls look up to them for their beauty. I even used to look up to them for their beauty. I found though, that no matter what you do, you can't always get the "Angels" look. It's not your body type to do so.
Think about this for a second though, how many young girls can you think of that have developed an eating disorder because they wanted to look perfect, or what they believed was perfect. These children, because yes many of them are young, develop these life long problems because of something they see on TV. They become anorexic, or bulimic because you can't just workout to look like these girls. Many times they are born that way, and pardon the religious reference but they are "God made" that way. It is how their genes are formed to make them.
Statistics state that "Approximately 90-95% of anorexia nervosa sufferers are girls and women." Who do I blame? Probably the media. The body type that is portrayed in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and in the media is naturally possessed by only 5% of American females. Well, what about the percentage of American females that want and are trying too look like the Angels? It’s much higher.
It makes girls feel like this...
I'm not saying that these women in the show are to blame, but the society that we live in where girls feel they need to look that way. The fact of boys and men idolizing them because they are able to walk the runways wearing limited clothing, while the "normal" body sits and just watches wondering sometimes why they can't look like that.
Me? I'm happy in the body I have. No it's not perfect and it's not the exact form I'd love, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. If I want to workout I do and I know that I would never be able to look like one of the "Angels" but I'll look like me. For now, I'll sit and watch the show for entertainment, watching the performances as they play and being excited while my favorite "Angels" walk the runway... while I eat my ice cream!
VS Angel, Candice Swanepoel:
