This morning while I was driving I was listening to my radio, going on about my merry way when I heard that Jennifer Aniston wrote an article. At first I thought to myself this is weird, why would a celebrity take the time to write an article? Isn't she busy? At first I didn't put much consideration into looking it up, but curiosity got the best of me.
So I got home and I looked it up " For The Record" the article was called, and I began reading it. In this article Jennifer talked about how social media and the media in general have come to affect the way in which young girls and woman see themselves and their bodies. She goes on to explain how the media tells us that in order to feel beautiful they need to dress a certain way and to wear copious amounts of makeup. She then goes on to say that the media tells little girls from the moment they can understand that they must be dainty and pretty; she says that we are told that we must look a certain way.
She also talks about how she is fed up with people assuming that she is pregnant "For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up" she explains that people should not assume she is because her body is changing. She goes on to say that she is tired of the way in which people and the media tell woman that they have to look a certain way or the way in which society consider to physically acceptable.
She goes on to explain that the media feels that they have the power to tells us that if we aren't married or with children that we must be unhappy. She goes on to bash the media for telling her that she must have relationship troubles if she doesn't have children, that she must be unhappy because her body is changing in ways that are not accepted by the media. She then goes on to claim that the media is harassing her and her husband. She goes on to acknowledge that she understand that the media makes it so woman and young girls would want to look like her. That she understands that she is a role model for the way in which society and the media thinks that woman should look.
When i was in high school i remember everyday going to school and seeing every girl wearing makeup, i was never the one to wear makeup or even follow the fashion trends going on at the time. I remember being told by these girls that if i didn't wear makeup then i wasn't pretty i was being told that no one would like me because i wasn't wearing makeup and i didn't look pretty. When i wasn't by these girls the media was telling me this. I would see commercials on TV telling me to buy makeup so I look better. Commercials telling me that i had to buy certain clothes in order to go with what the media and people perceived to be physically acceptable.
Jennifer then goes on to say how we should not give the media this much power to tell us that we should be unhappy because we do not meet their standards or that we should be able to be happy without having to be married or being married. She says that we should not feel that we are no physically acceptable because we do not meet the media's standards. She says that we must ourselves determine what our happiness looks like.
Many people would say that we should have better self images or better self confidence. But the truth is that if we are not everyday or reminded everyday that we have to look a certain way than we might feel that we are good enough or pretty enough without the things the media tells us that we should use in order to look "pretty." What these people and the media don't understand is that these types of standards can cause problems such as anorexia, bulimia or any sort of eating disorder.
Reading this article the beliefs that people should not be consider pretty or ugly, based on the amount of makeup or type of clothes they wear because, if you are kind and have a caring heart that is far more beautiful. I mean don't get me wrong like many other girls i love makeup i just don't feel the need to wear makeup every single day. Of course not i mean why would i want to be a Kardashian when i could just be me.
