Snodgrass Photography Blog

There is enormous pressure from the media on young girls to be thin. Models can be seen everywhere with their skeleton frames sticking out suggesting this is the body image one should strive for. This image is not realistic or even attractive to some, yet the desire to imitate them remains. Eating disorders are so common in models that it seems to get glamorized to young girls. This is a dangerous thing to want to imitate. “15% of young women have some kind of disordered eating patterns.” (Random House, eating disorder statistics,2007)

Body Image and Barbies

The media reinforces this standard by promoting dolls like barbies which no girl or woman could ever seriously look like. The proportions are all wrong and the measurements when converted to full size are freakishly absurd. Many of them have very thin frames and enormous bosoms which is a very rare occurrence naturally. Also the majority of barbies happen to be blond and white with blue eyes. It’s completely unrealistic for this to be the standard of beauty especially if you happen to be a different race.

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