Wild Card!

     For the wild card topic I am choosing to write about body image with the media. Body image is defined as how you look at yourself. Due to the media, these days body image is a huge problem all over the word. Most often the problem occurs with girls, mainly around my age. The media has a huge impact on how girls look at themselves. The media tends to make girls in magazines, and on TV look flawless. The problem is, being flawless does not exist. The models and girls they show are always a size 0. And in this day in age, if you are not a size 0, then you are fat, and or ugly. It is disgusting the way the media can make girls, and boys too feel about themselves. Due to the way this makes girls feel about themselves, often the girls start to self harm. They begin to cut themselves because they think they are fat, or that they are not beautiful. Well, they are. Everyone is beautiful. it does not matter if you are a size 0 or a size 259, you are beautiful in every single way. Being high school i know how a lot of kids are being bullied. A good amount of the time they are being bullied because of the way they look. Everyone judges people, and that is a HUGE problem that we have. No body ever gets to know the person, or who they are. They just are so judgmental. The media makes it seem like you have to look a certain way. You have to be thin, and tall, and have long hair, and blue eyes, and you need to have large breasts. It does not matter what you look like. You are all beautiful in every single way. The way you look doesn't make you beautiful, your personality and who you are does. Beauty comes from the inside, being beautiful to me, means helping others, being respectful, doing the best you can, to me that is truly beautiful. The media shows girls that are just unrealistic, the images they show as beautiful, no one looks like. The media seems to cause a lot of problems. We have been learning in Wellness the past 2 weeks about body image. We have spent a lot of time on what girls and boys too do to make them selves look "beautiful". They believe to look that certain way they need to purge all the food they eat or they do not eat at all. There are so many different kinds of eating disorders in the world. 10 million Americans have been diagnosed with a type of eating disorder, and the numbers have been increasing every year. Many people with eating disorders can die from it. Their body just cannot handle it anymore and it just completely shuts down. We recently saw a family on Oprah whose daughter died due to an eating disorder. She stopped eating for a number of weeks, and her body became so weak, that it just shut down. The girl died at an age of 17 because she had a heart attack. The media caused this. The media makes girls everywhere belive you HAVE to look like that, and you have to BE that. It is so unfair the pressure that girls face to even leave the house. I am sure every woman in the world has thought at one point in their life that they were fat, or that they needed to go on a diet and loose weight. It is crazy. Men face this problem too. One million men in America have been diagnosed with eating disorders, and the number are increasing rapidly. This needs to change. Girls and boys need to stop killing their bodies because the way they think they have to look. They need to know that they are beautiful, every single one of them. Every girl, boy, woman, man in the word is beautiful in their own special way. When you look into the mirror you should see that, you shouldn’t sit there pointing out your flaws like almost everyone does. You should look in the mirror and think I really am beautiful, and they should be happy with the way that they look. They should never be ashamed, because they are BEAUTIFUL, every single one of them, in every single way!