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Girls talking about body image & expectations (video)

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Girls talking about body image & expectations (video)

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In this video, girls from ages 6-18 talk about their body and features of themselves that they dislike. You notice that most of them talk about not being skinny and how that's what most girls look like and how it is expected to be skinny and when you're not, you're different. Each girl in this video talks about how it impacts them and how they feel.

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Girls Ages 6-18 Talk About Body Image | Allure

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Body standards & how it impacts girls (website)

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Body standards & how it impacts girls (website)

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Within this website, it talks about the statistics of young girls and how many of them wish they can be thin or change themselves to be more like the women in the media. It talks about the impact it has in these girls as in self-esteem issues and teaches girls how to love themselves.

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The media can cause body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem, and disordered eating. When girls compare their bodies to what is seen in the media, it increases their chance of having a poor body image. Research has shown that media is negatively associated with self-esteem, meaning that the more a girl views the media the greater chance she will have a lower self-esteem. As for disordered eating, research has shown that constant exposure to unhealthy messages about body image is related to disordered eating behaviors, such as restricting food, bingeing, and purging. When young girls see these unhealthy messages, such as the need to have a thigh gap or flat stomach, it can increase their chance of developing eating disorder behaviors in order to obtain these body types. According to a 2015 study by Common Sense Media, teens spend an average of nine hours a day using media (tweens average six hours a day), including movies, television, and social media sites, which means they are getting many hours of harmful media exposure.

Young girls are constantly being subjected to unattainable standards of beauty and the media does a poor job at defining what a 'normal girl' looks like. Female celebrities are constantly photoshopped to perfect their bodies by clearing any flaws in their skin and editing their body parts, such as making their waist thinner and their breasts larger.

One of the biggest problems is the lack of diversity seen in the media, which idealizes female celebrities that are white, tall, and thin. This is unhealthy for many young girls of different ethnicities because they are seeing a society that does not represent their ethnicity well in the media. A 2015 study by Laura Romo held a focus group with Mexican American adolescent females to discuss their views on body image and the media. Most of the girls said they were aware that being thin is the standard of beauty as shown by white women in movies, television shows, advertisements, and so forth. And, although many of them admire some of the curvier bodies in the media (some mentioned Beyoncé and Selena), they sometimes still feel pressure of reflecting the mainstream ideal of being thin. One 16-year-old girl in the focus group said "in white culture basically you just have to be skinny. Because you see it on TV, you see it on magazines, you see it everywhere. Everywhere you go, you basically hear that you are supposed to be like that." If this is what girls of color are seeing in the media, you can imagine how that affects their own body image.

However, there has begun to be a push towards a more diverse standard of beauty, both in body image and diversity in ethnicity. There are brands such as Aerie that have vowed to no longer Photoshop their models because it is about "body positivity and loving your real self." There are also celebrities speaking out about being photoshopped and about diverse bodies in the media. Danielle

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According to a study by the Girl Scouts of America in 2010, out of over 1000 adolescent girls surveyed, 88% of the girls believe that the media puts a lot of pressure on them to be thin and 65% believe that the body image represented in the fashion industry in the media is too skinny, and 60% said t

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This image expresses that the standards are so unrealistic to be considered beautiful that it shrinks the self-esteem of other young girls.

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In this poem it states the expectations of what girls wear in order to fit in. The next line talks about making yourself thinner by puking or using photoshop. The next two lines are reading between the lines, assuming that the girls are killing themselves in order to look good and follow the beauty standards of society.

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This photo shows all the things that society points out about people and themselves because they don't look perfect and follow the beauty expectations of society when truly, they do look beautiful.

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"Beauty is in the eye of who society as a whole perceives as beautiful.”

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"Beauty is in the eye of who society as a whole perceives as beautiful.”

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In this article it describes what the beauty standards are and how it is hard to attain them because of how unrealistic it is. It puts so much pressure on young females to be better and look better and it harms their self-esteem in the end.

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Beauty standards in America put the pressure on millennials to look ‘perfect’ - Loquitur

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Many have heard the phrase, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but in today’s society it seems to have changed to “beauty… Read More

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This video literally says it all. This young girl speaks out about all the things that young girls and women are doing to keep up with the expectations of society. Through this poem, you can feel and understand how what she's talking about impacts every girl that does the same thing everyday.

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Student's viral poem asks 'Why am I not good enough?'

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Unrealistic beauty standards set for teenagers

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Unrealistic beauty standards set for teenagers

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In this website article it talks about how in films it portrays girls to be popular and beautiful and once girls watch them it sets the standards higher and they begin think that to be popular and liked, you have to do certain things and dress a certain way.

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What beauty means to young girls (video)

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What beauty means to young girls (video)

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In this video, you have 5 ten year old's who go through a bunch of photos of models and say what they don't like them. Later their mothers are shown and it is identified that this is all they know to be "beautiful" because of what they've seen in the media.

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Dove | What beauty means to young girls?