Media Image of Unattainable Beauty

God is beautiful and God loves beauty “Allah gameel, yoheeb al gamal”
What is beauty?? Why our idea of beauty becomes so distorted? Why we care about surface beauty and we ignore deep beauty? What is beauty and what is ugliness? How do we judge beauty and ugliness?
Nowadays, People judge beauty based on body parts and how perfect they match with face features. Our perception of beauty becomes so artificial because the standards of beauty are being imposed on us. Whenever we watch an ad, a movie, a music clip or read a magazine we always see tall, skinny women with ideal skin and features. Same thing happens to men, T.V guys are always hot with muscles and six packs. Yet, images of superlative beauty have a higher impact on women than on men.
Images of women and their body parts are being used all over the world. In order to attract people and mostly teenagers, popular film and television actresses are becoming younger, taller and thinner. In addition, women’s magazines are full of articles urging them to lose weight, so that they’ll have it all: the perfect marriage, great sex, and a rewarding career.
Programs like The Swan and Besaraha Ahla are making it worst. Because they show that the life of the women turns to the best after doing the plastic surgeries she did to look pretty. This is nonsense, being pretty doesn’t only depend on your shape; your personality plays a great role in this. What is the benefit of being beautiful, but dumb??? I’m not saying that the look is not important, but it shouldn’t be more important than the personality and the heart. I support plastic surgeries only for medical purposes. Other wise, women should be natural and have a high level of self confidence because running to plastic surgeries will never satisfy us. For example, can we say that Nancy Ajram is beautiful??? Sure NO, because she’s fake. She is full of plastic surgeries that made her looks like a Barbie doll.
Plastic surgeries and being a super beautiful is a serious issue. It has a negative impact on a huge number of girls and women around the world. People are using this medical service in a harmful way. Besides, media images of thin and young female bodies is linked to depression, loss of self-esteem and the development of unhealthy eating habits in women and girls. The number of real life women and girls who use unhealthy methods of weight control; including fasting, skipping meals, excessive exercise, laxative abuse, and self-induced vomiting, is epidemic. These people are suffering from devastating health consequences such as: fainting on the set from lack of food. I believe that we should work on our bodies in order to be fit and healthy but everything has a red line limit that we shouldn’t cross.
You are beautiful because of what you do, not what you look like.