Body Image

Body Image

...don¡¦t have the ideal body image because of the influence of magazines. We believe that a magazine has the biggest influence on women because they provide fashion and style. Every month they pull out what is "it" and not. Magazines typically create an image of young women in thin bodies or in beautiful skin. Most magazines have pictures of models with bathing suit and provide dieting and exercise types and weight loss programs. We decided to write and research about this topic because we can relate to this topic as well as our peers. Mostly everybody has looked over a magazine and has seen the women they portray to teenagers and others. Our peers also believe they feel that magazines influence them and how they think the ideal body image should be. This is an everyday issue that happens everywhere. It cannot be stopped; the media cannot stop portraying women as thin model that looks beautiful. Teenage women are most affected because they are growing into women and are hitting puberty. Most start to care about their looks and likes to be in fashion. Men also take a big role into this. Since magazines gives tips and advice to look good, teenagers do what magazines say. Magazines are used to give the media new looks and better clothing style to wear. There are magazines for sports women, fashion, teens such as Seventeen for music like Source even for the older women like People magazines. Typical magazines carry many ads which many of them include to get better looks of skin hair and other products. Magazines carry models that look skinny and in shape. They also consist in changing the image of the models in the magazines by changing some facial characteristics and adding many other things such as make up and or bigger lips. At first when we decided to the project we decided on many subject from gang violence to pregnancy at a young age that...

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