Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Not yet finished draft.

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 for 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 body? We find suddenly we can’t control this feeling and we are counting every calorie we touch.

We’re depressed, finding everyday 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 emotion 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 recent reports said 'if it gets into the wrong hands it can be dangerous' after a story emerged of 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 later died in hospital  


‘If it gets in the wrong hands it can be dangerous.’ Claimed by many reports due to the rise in plastic surgery yet we've happily started to think it’s ok to change the way we look. Buy our new nose or change those hips that you have tried everything to shift the weight off but it just won’t go. So now we can just pay money to change your body. But is it really that simple? no. We are all living in a world of false advertisement, we’ve all been warned surgery could go wrong but what if it does? What if suddenly you was left with a body worse than it was before? You have to live everyday hating your body more than you ever did and you can do nothing about it, did you really want to change yourself that much? 

We’ve become a world full of hatred for our bodies and envy for others. Our images of our own body is becoming more and more distorted, size 0 are seeing ten sizes bigger in mirror. Is the media to blame for this? 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 gone to the extremes of some? Does changing our selves 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 to our attention? Is the media forcing us to notice the things we hate about our bodies, are we honestly becoming a world 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 into.

1 comment:

  1. I've corrected the grammar and text on word, so I'll upload that tomorrow. We just need to put an example in the 5th paragraph about surgery gone wrong and we need a closing paragraph which relates to the question asked in the first paragraph!

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