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We often find ourselves feeling envious of someone else’s body, however do some take this to the extreme? 

Has spending millions of pounds on the Kate Moss figure become far too accepted in today’s society? The media is constantly pushing us to extreme lengths and many are craving the ‘perfect’ body that we are always being shown through misleading advertisements.

Magazines publish articles with a front cover full of ‘Best and Worst beach bodies’ comparing one celebrity to another, making us feel guilty about what we put in our mouths and putting immense pressure on us. Is this what distorts our perspective of our bodies? We find suddenly we can’t control this feeling and we are counting every calorie we touch.

We’re depressed, finding every day a struggle to get through and all we can remember is that we do not look good in this outfit. We are crying out for someone to help us and no matter what people say we have lost all ability to feel anything but low self esteem. The hatred for our bodies and face has gone too far, the hunger for perfection is no longer in our control.

We've all been warned about the dangers of surgery and reports have claimed that if done with a lack of knowledge it can be dangerous.

A recent story emerged about a young girl from London who wanted to be a singer and felt the only way she would be able to make it is if she had a bigger bottom. Within hours of searching online she had arranged to meet a so-called surgeon in a hotel room in America, hours after the procedure took place she complained of stomach and chest pains. She died later died in hospital  

We’ve become a society full of hatred for our bodies and envy for others. Our images of our own body are becoming more and more distorted, and those with a size 0 frame are seeing themselves as being ten sizes bigger in mirror. We read the ugly stories of young teens who have spent months trying to be as thin as possible but is the media to blame for all of this? Are we so obsessed by celebrity culture that a magazine cover can define how we view ourselves?  

However, recently celebrities such as Kelly Brooke have tried to target the situation by releasing un-airbrushed images of themselves to show that no one has the perfect body 

We've all focused on our looks at some point, but have we ever done anything this extreme? Does changing ourselves really make us feel and look any better? Surely, if the option of surgery wasn't available, we wouldn't even think of doing it. Would we think of starving ourselves thin if it wasn't publicised so much? Is the media forcing us to notice the things we hate about our bodies and are we honestly becoming a society that has become obsessed about our image? Maybe for one day, we could not look in the mirror and forget what others are telling us and realise, who we really are not what this obsession is forcing us to be.