Julia is an eighth grader who first hand is seeing the effects that photoshopping in the media has on her friends and classmates. Seventeen Magazine was responsive to her letter, and went as far as meeting with her. Julia Bluhm wrote to Seventeen Magazine, asking why there are no girls on the cover that look like her or her friends. Luckily, one girl and her friends did take a stand. They will realize it is completely fake, and unrealistic. We need to increase awareness to young girls about how extremely distorted these images are, so that when they look at these images they will not fixate on what they do not have. With the constant comparison to the girls in the magazine covers comes a lack of confidence and decrease in self-esteem. Even the diet magazines, are all extremely photoshopped.so with all this chaos of messages stating that we should be thin, tall, and tan to be beautiful and happy, where are the realistic messages? Where are the messages in the media that talk to young girls about being healthy? And that the number on your scaleВ doesnвЂ™tВ define who you are as a person? What about telling young girls that who you are is perfect right now?ДЄs girls are looking to these magazines, theyвЂ™re constantly comparing themselves wondering why their body looks nothing like what they are seeing. вЂњTHINвЂќ is what everyone wants, and there is no emphasis placed on being healthy and fit, the emphasis is put on the number that shows up on the scale. Fast forward to now, and it is the COMPLETE opposite. Decades ago women with full-figured bodies were embraced and loved, and being extremely thin-which is what women strive for now as the ideal body, was not what anyone wanted. These unrealistic standards of what womenвЂ™s body types should look like are increasingly getting worse. ItвЂ™s a scary thought to think that the media has such a strong impact on how we think and feel about ourselves especially when it concerns our looks and what is acceptable in society. The media clearly does not care about the images that they are portraying and the perceptions of young girls they are altering and influencing. This is just one of the billions of cases where the media will stop at nothing to strive for that unattainable and unrealistic beauty.

However, as you can see Cosmopolitan decided that even a girl with an eating disorder is still eligible for photoshop. You would think that with DemiвЂ™s cover story about her battle with anorexia that the magazine wouldnвЂ™t photoshop her right.as itвЂ™s unethical. ThroughoutВ her journey and even now, Demi has been extremely vocal about her disorder and anВ advocate to help teen girls with the same issues. Demi recently got out of rehab for eating disorders and self harming. Take for example teen star Demi Lovato, a 19-year-old celebrity with thousands of young girls that idolize and look up to her. So why do we allow the media to expose us to such images that destroy young girls self-esteem and alter their perceptions so greatly, that it could lead to an eating disorder? Why is the media so fixated on perfection, and an unattainable beauty that even the models and celebrities on these covers cannot attain without the use of photoshop? What does she think? She looks up to these celebrities on the magazines, and these pictures alter her perception of what she should look like and give her a false reality.ДЇACT: The National Institute of Health estimates 5,000 people a year are affected with an eating disorder.ДЇACT: Approximately 1,000 people each year die from an eating disorderДЇACT: 90% of individuals with an eating disorder are young girls from the ages of 12 to 25. Picture this: youвЂ™re standing in line to buy your groceries and you look to your right at the magazine stand, filled with 30 or so magazine covers with вЂњperfectвЂќ looking girls on them stating вЂњhow to lose weightвЂќ or вЂњhow to get the perfect body.вЂќ Now picture your daughter, a young girl looking at these photos not knowing that they are extremely photoshopped. Everyday individuals are exposed to approximately 5,000 advertisements.

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