Body Image

There are many things that have changed throughout the pass of years in our world. One of them is body image. With TV shows based on beauty, beauty pageants and companies trying to sell their products to make you beautiful. In today's world, everything is based on appearance. Throughout this chapter, it's explained that body image is an obsession. Many people, above all women, will put themselves through the pain and suffering of plastic surgery to look more socially accepted. Whether it is done by not eating, throwing up, or plastic surgery...many people put their lives in danger by doing these extreme actions to become more beautiful because of how society has become. Only looks matter now a days.
       In the same chapter it is stated how this obsession is not only shown by models or public figures, the toys that the children are playing today are a vivid subliminal message towards becoming more beautiful. On page 538, the author explains that popular toys such as barbies have amazing figures. Barbies have beautiful faces and they're skinny. It has been proven that the measures of Barbie converted to a real women are almost impossible to achieve. This is a blatant intention from these companies to start affecting those children mind from a very young age. Barbie is the first role model little girls look up to, parents usually don't realize that by these, little girls may become self conscious  of their body and life overall, since Barbie is known to have "the perfect life".
     The anorexic runway models, the beauty TV shows, the beauty products commercials, toys and games and many other elements in today's society media are they main reason way appearance has become such a great deal to everybody. The fact that weighting less than 100 pounds is "beautiful" and anything above that range is unacceptable, changes the way of thinking of little girls and teenagers, therefore they look for extreme measures to be accepted and what it is thought to be beautiful.