The Effects Of Beauty

It is NOT okay for a woman's perception of her body to be influenced by Fashion Magazines

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Works Cited

Bell, Beth Teresa, and Helga Dittmar. "Does Media Type Matter? the Role of Identification in Adolescent Girls' Media Consumption and the Impact of Different Thin-Ideal Media on Body Image." Sex Roles 65.7-8 (2011): 478-90. ProQuest.Web. 2 Oct. 2015.

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Harper, Brit, and Marika Tiggemann. "The Effect of Thin Ideal Media Images on Women's Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image." Sex Roles 58.9-10 (2008): 649-57. ProQuest. Web. 1 Oct. 2015.

Hooke, Naomi. "Fashion Is Not to Blame for Anorexia." Anorexia. Ed. Stefan Kiesbye. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. At Issue. Rpt. from "Understanding Anorexia: A Thin Excuse." Independent 18 Sept. 2007. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 23 Oct. 2015.

Kilbourne, Jean. Challenging Media “Killing Us Softly 4- Trailer” Online Video Clip, YouTube. YouTube. 24 Aug 2012. Wed 2 July 2014.

Jean Kilbourne has a B.A. in English from Wellesley College and a doctorate in education from Boston University. She is described as “a superstar lecturer” by The Boston Globe. She has received the Lecturer of the Year award from the National Association for Campus Activities twice. She has lectured at more than half of all the colleges and universities in the USA. She has also been presented as a keynote speaker focusing on addictions and public health, violence, women, and the media. She has publications in lectures, films, and articles. Kilbourne has served as an advisor to former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and Antonia Novello. She was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Jean Kilbourne’s audiences range from young adults in college to authoritative figures. She pulls her viewers in with her wit and warmth in combination with her gift of being able to present provocative topics that encourage dialogue and empowers people to take action. She is known for her talks on public health, violence, women and the media. The purpose of her presentations is to better humankind. She unveils the hard truth about controversial and unsettling topics, causing many of her viewers to form a particular bond to Kilbourne in admiration for her heroic honesty. Jean Kilbourne’s documentary, “Killing Us Softly” ties in beautifully with my argument essay topic on how Fashion Magazine Covers cause skew women’s self image and knowledge about what beauty is. She utilizes references as well as presents the information on how media disorients the true beauty of women in easy-to-understand and relatable ways. She is a credible source for me to form a stronger angle on my essay, as well as take her opinion on the topic as well.

Lange, Magnus Söderlund And Fredrik. "Visual Persuasion with Physically Attractive Models in Ads." Working Paper Series in Business Administration (n.d.): n. pag. 2009. Web. 2 Oct. 2015.

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Penny, Laurie. "Our Disgusting Appetite for Anorexia Chic." New Statesman Jan 10 2011: 12. ProQuest. Web. 2 Oct. 2015.

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The Effects of Beauty

The next time you come across a fashion magazine and notice how unbelievably perfect the model is, acknowledge the detrimental effects it inflicts on women and then rise above those preconceived notions by remembering that fashion magazines do not define beauty, you do.

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It is important to sympathize with the pressure that all women, including models and celebrities, undergo every day. Women’s perception of their body image should no longer be influenced or inspired by fashion magazines. Exposure to these extremely altered images ties with emotional, mental, and physical health issues like eating disorders.

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The reason media’s portrayal of women is such an issue is because of the serious effects of eating disorders to lose weight and be thinner.

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20 Shocking Gifs of Famous People Before and After Photoshop

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“Ideal” should not involve being warped and worked on a computer screen to appear thinner than women in real life.

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“Hmm, is that what I should look like?”

We have all seen that magazine that has us, women looking at our bodies thinking, “Hmm, is that what I should look like?” when in reality, achieving something like that could cause serious harm to one's body that could lead to death or rehab.

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When I was growing up, I had no one to look up to in the spotlight that was a regular sized girl, like this was the time when socialites were very very thin, and were going to clubs. And that’s what I had on my wall; I had pictures of these girls that were so, so tiny.

Demi Lovato, ABC News Interview

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Demi shares her story in an interview with ABC News saying that “When I was growing up, I had no one to look up to in the spotlight that was a regular sized girl, like this was the time when socialites were very very thin, and were going to clubs. And that’s what I had on my wall; I had pictures of these girls that were so, so tiny” (Demi Lovato). This interview with Demi Lovato shows that as a rising star, she looked up to the thin celebrities seen in magazines that ultimately altered her perception of her body. This struggle leads her down a long road that was difficult to overcome to say the least.

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In the US, popular teen celebrity, Demi Lovato, opened up to the world about her eating disorder. She battled with bulimia, which lead to depression and eventually rehab.

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Isabelle Caro posing nude for an Italian campaign. She said she was never questioned about her weight by modeling agencies. She suffered from anorexia and died at the age of 28.

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Caro was the face of the famous Nolita campaign that was designed to show dieting teenagers the horrifying effects that eating disorders have on the body. Isabelle Caro’s passing was not a surprise to the press, as tragic as the loss truly was.

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The anorexia industry, for which poor Caro was briefly the mascot, is cynical idolatry masquerading as public concern to sell magazines.

Penny, Our Disgusting Appetite for Anorexia Chic

Penny, Laurie. "Our Disgusting Appetite for Anorexia Chic." New Statesman Jan 10 2011: 12. ProQuest. Web. 2 Oct. 2015.

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The French model, Isabelle Caro, died from complications due to anorexia nervosa.

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What may seem obvious to some but unnoticed to others is the fact that the models and celebrities are suffering just the same. Just because they are the ideal women featured on fashion magazine covers does not mean that they look like those women in real life.

The tormenting beauty standards that Fashion Magazines create do not only affect the general public's’ self-image; It affects the models and celebrities featured in the magazines as well. Celebrities and models struggling with eating disorders are evident because of the relentless news and tabloids about them.

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The study suggests that women are affected by the use of attractive women in advertising to the degree where women begin to self-objectify their worth as a beautiful or not beautiful woman. Even if a woman does not believe she has an eating disorder, the dieting behaviors advertised through fashion magazines subconsciously influence women to try diets and fads that can rebound to binge eating or purging to rid any unwanted calories to reach that impossible standard of beauty (Harper). These are unsafe and deadly practices that many women are experiencing today.

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Participants who viewed advertisements featuring a thin-idealized woman reported greater state self-objectification, weight-related appearance anxiety, negative mood, and body dissatisfaction than participants who viewed product control advertisements.

Harper, Brit, and Marika Tiggemann. "The Effect of Thin Ideal Media Images on Women's Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image." Sex Roles 58.9-10 (2008): 649-57. ProQuest. Web. 1 Oct. 2015.

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The study The Effect of Thin-Ideal Media Images on Women’s Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image, opens with an experiment that tests self-objectification in Australian Undergraduate women. Female subjects randomly viewed magazine advertisements featuring thin, attractive women or advertisements in which featured no people at all.