I think that the problem with the society nowadays is the fact that we tend to blame practically everything and everyone but not ourselves for all our daily troubles, mistakes and misfortunes. Our favorite thing to take out all our frustrations on is the media. We tend to say things like, “Look at how this girl is dressed. Must be because of all these music videos she watches on tv”, or, “my son has punched his cousin again because of all these violent cartoons”. The same thing goes to people who diet intensively, and as a result develop some kind of an eating disorder. They tend to blame the media for this, and although I do feel sorry for them, I actually find their excuse rather silly.
Sure, the media often does cultivate a tall, thin, large-breasted, wrinkleless girl image but I think that it is up to people if they wish to follow all these trends blindly, or instead, focus on developing their own style.
Also, people often forget to realise that some of these celebrities take years to work on their image – intensive body fitness and hours spent at the gym is the price one must pay in order to get there. At the same time, their perfect hair and make-up is usually the hard work of their stylists (notice that celebrities don’t always look perfect *hint hint* find photos of celebrities without makeup on and you’ll be surprised!).

People who follow the lives of celebrities often want the easy way out (provided that they have the cash) so they opt for plastic surgeries. I am not saying that all cosmetic surgeries are bad. There are some people out there with tremendous complexes, and at times a small amendment in their looks can make their life so much better. However what I think is bad, is when people go overboard with these kinds of surgeries. After they get their nose done, they want to botox-up their lips, enlarge their breasts… after that they want liposuction on the thighs… it’s basically like a never-ending process of becoming “perfect”. However these people fail to realise that instead of becoming beautiful, their bodies are just becoming more and more fake.

Is this really the fault of the media? Well, I don’t really think so for I think that people should be smart enough to know what is good for them.
In addition to that, there are certain celebrities (like Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Lopez, etc.) who have got fuller figures and yet they are considered beautiful too. So even media people do realize that what is beautiful isn’t necessarily thin.