The anxiety girls and women experience from feeling unattractive is arguably one of the most pervasive and damaging consequence of advertising. The media shows only one body type in advertisements - that of a very tall and thin woman - a woman who would meet the criteria for anorexia as 15% below normal weight (class movie). Ad companies sell this image, alter photos digitally, and associate perfection with thinness. In reality, this abnormal slim body shape is unattainable for most women.
Advertising constantly sells the myth that women can and should achieve physical perfection to live happy lives. Nowadays "physical perfection" is an unhealthy thinness that very few women can attain. This causes problems in the form of eating disorders. In fact, according to Caring online" "We live in a thin obsessed world where skinny models are idolized and 60% of high-school girls want to loose weight." Advertising companies use not only unbelievably thin models for their ads, but they also......
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