Essays on Body Image

Many factors can contribute to a negative impact on body image. But the media seems to play a huge role in the image most of us have or want to have. So much emphasis is put on being perfect and looking a certain way that…

Society is trapped in two worlds, one, endless war of ego and competition. A world where media validation rules our lives; while the other, trying to build everyone together yet breaking oneself in the process. To seek approval from Social Media followers promotes unrealistic beauty…

Self-love is an important thing for all of us. It lets us be who we really are and accept ourselves and the people around us .There’s a lot of ways to love ourselves, but most of us don’t love ourselves and loving ourselves is important…

It does matter and it is important in our society, but for the wrong reasons. You may have been called ‘hot’ ‘sexy’ or even such related words a lot of times. In our society or culture being thin or get married as soon as possible…

Imagine this if we are going to choose from two different type of dolls, a black skin colored doll with curly hair or white skin colored doll with shiny straight hair? Who will you choose. Most of you will choose the second one while some…

In the current society, our bodies and physical attributes are increasingly under scrutiny with the judgments getting harsher. The body and society compare to each other in a way that ensures everyone in the planet is unique and different. Based on that, someone’s body image…

There are many woman and men like Sir Tom Jones and Kim Kardashian who spends a ridiculous amount of money to look a certain way for the public. People will spend so much money on surgeries, beauty products and make up to make their self-appealing…

Though the media has many effects on society we should remember the importance of self confidence. Did you know the average size of the idealized women (as portrayed by models), has stabilized at 13-19% below healthy weight. The more we look at perfect images of…

Thinner, slimmer, better, isn’t that what all girls want? This way of thinking has only toxified the entire society, making them feel insecure about themselves. I see hundreds of advertisements, magazines, posters with the “ideal” body type for women, thin and beautiful. I even remember…

Demi Lovato once said, “There is way too much pressure on people these days to be thin, pretty, smart and popular”. Society puts so much pressure on everyone to be all of those things. Instead of pressuring people to be “perfect”, we should be pushing…