Does the media cause anorexia? As long as I live, people are thinking about their appearance, thinking about how they would look in a certain kind of jeans or skirt.

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Does the media cause anorexia?

As long as I live, people are thinking about their appearance, thinking about how they would look in a certain kind of jeans or skirt. Weight, clothing size and make up have kind of consumed our lives. We believe that if we fit into our new skinny-jeans or if we buy a certain brand we belong to society and we than fit in society. When you turn on your television or when you look in a magazine, today’s society is all about how someone looks. On television we see people who are rich, beautiful and most of the time they are all thin.  People watch popular series with rich, thin and most of all beautiful people, they think that if they act and look like them, people will like them because all the people like to watch the serie and they’re constantly talking about one of the characters which, to them, is so beautiful.
It looks like that we are living in a society where we are not determined by how we are on the inside but our society determines our success by just the way we look on the outside.
This causes uncertainty especially under young teenage girls.

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Commercials we see in media are  99% of the time about fashion, make up and other ways of ‘looking good’. The majority of girls don’t like certain things of their appearance and are constantly exposed to commercials of how they can look better. They are probably getting more insecure in time because all they see is the so called: perfect image. If the media would not promote thin size zero woman and woman with their perfect skin, it would maybe boost young girls their self-confidence and they will start to acknowledge that they are not the only one with a ...

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