The Effects of Media on Teenage Girls

The media emphasizes the importance of physical beauty rather than emotional attractiveness. Unfortunately, media does not show what famous people go through to become the envy of all people. Teenage girls are clueless to the fact that famous people go through many measures to look the way they do. Plastic surgery, fake tanning, and waxing are just three procedures these women go through to perfect themselves. Along with a damaged body and lowered health levels, …

…the beautiful female to be thinner and thinner. Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia are now major problems that affect many adolescent females today. A teen sees this abundance of perfect figures and believes she can have a celebrity's look by starving herself or exercising to the point of exhaustion. After putting every last effort she has into creating the perfect body, only in turn is she creating a lowered self esteem for herself.