Media and Fake Beauty

According to the new standards of beauty that has been set by the media, a beautiful women has to have 170 cm and above height, skinny, and well-toned skin. As all the models appear with those standards in TV, Magazines, advertisements and almost everywhere it is hard to ignore the fact that the media is forcing women to accept these standards and follow them.
With the models getting skinnier every day and thanks to computer technologies pictures are getting more edited to look “perfect,” reaching the standards of beauty is becoming a dream for women. Teenagers are trying to follow the foot steps of models and to be skinny and supposedly beautiful; they find the easiest way out. They literally stop eating. The amount of anorexic and bulimic teenagers all around the world is sadly increasing to meet the standards of beauty.
Apart from the skinny models on the runways which hardly reached the age of 17 or 18 to have their breasts grow, in magazines and TV they use more mature females with an odd body image which is mostly a skinny girl with large breasts. The whole idea of such ideal beauty starts at a very young age where girls start to play with their Barbie’s. Barbie is a bizarre creature which is tall, skinny, big breasts, moderately big behind, small nose, big puffy lips, and also long straight blond hair; in other words beautiful. As young girls have their standards set by their Barbie’s and later on with the models in magazines and television it forces them to try other ways than nutrition diets and exercise.
As women run out of natural ways to meet the standards of beauty, they try to achieve their goals through plastic surgeries. Injections, liposuction, plastic surgeries are their way out to become beautiful. As a result of the TV shows like swan and extreme make over which gives a support and approval to their decisions on the “fake beauty” rate of plastic surgeries are sadly increasing.