Beauty and Body image in the Media

1. The main idea of this article is how the media influences the way that women perceive themselves and how they should look.
2. In the media women are portrayed as young, tall and skinny. Women’s magazines say that if you are skinny enough you start to have it all, a great marriage, loving children and great sex. Advertisers believe that thin models sell more products.
3. The reason that researchers generated a computer model of a Barbie doll was to show us that if a actual human has the same proportions her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and her back would be too weak to support her upper body weight and she would eventually die from malnutrition. 
4. I think that women in the media should be portrayed as the natural beauty that they have. Sadly in this world sex sells pretty much everything. Advertisers think that if they don’t have an incredibly sexy, skinny, young woman there product wont sell at all. I think that the media should have a good mix of all different types of women in different shapes and sizes to show that not everybody needs to be skinny to get ahead in life.