Body Image in the Media

"Beauty is not what you see outside but what is inside." This is what we taught throughout our childhood. But when a person is a teenager they highlighted a "perfect image" and saw thousands of ads on the media. The information sent by these advertisements is what women should see. When women see these ads, they are often embarrassed and they do not look like models. But women should be like this. Most ads do not include beauty products.

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Recently we know that the media closely relates to the image of the body. In particular, the image advertisement of the body depicts the image that affects our own body. Of course, there are many other factors that influence our body image: child rearing, education, intimacy etc. However, popular media has a big influence. Americans spend 250 billion hours a year to watch television. According to California State University Northridge, advertisement accounts for about 30% of all TV broadcasting time. Ordinary children see commercials of 20,000 TVs a year. Of course, it is not the place where only the TV watches advertisements. Popular magazines, especially women's magazines and many young people's magazines, are filled with advertisements. Pop-up ads are also displayed on the web.

Media media is one of social and cultural influences, and as a result of thorough investigation, the focus of the media's image on the image of the body is the focus. Studies have shown that women who watch many TV programs and read about fashion magazines are more likely to physically change by media than men (DC Jones, Vigfusdottir, & Y.Lee, 2004; Ricciardelli and McCabe, 2001). However research has shown that the media is unrealistically ideal, affecting dissatisfaction with the body of the woman and being accused of being hungry (Wykes & Gunter, 2005). Men are tall and muscular, whereas men's magazines, advertisements, television, the Internet, etc. have these pictures everywhere, while the media draws the appearance of women as thin and big breasts. Use techniques and special effects when editing photos to make images more perfect than real life