Photo Assignment- Body Image

      I choose to do this photo assignment on body image. The media is everywhere in today's culture and is always showing super skinny girls who have, what is considered to be the ideal body type. They think that every girl should be a size 0 in order to have that "perfect" body otherwise they are not considered perfect. It honestly makes me sad that we live in a culture that teaches us that way and to hate ourselves for not looking like the models that we see. I think that we are all special and perfect just the way we are and should not be told that we need to be skinnier in order to have that "perfect" body.
      There is a couple girls that I know who enjoy looking at magazines and looking at the models. They are always complaining they hate how their bodies look and want to have a body just like the models they see. I honestly think that they are already skinny and look perfect already. They are so terrified of gaining weight, they want to do everything they can to stay skinny. They exercise so much and eat less when they eat. They always talk about losing weight and how happy they would be just to reach that ideal size.
     Our popular culture seems to have the ability to make girls and women everywhere feel terrible about themselves and their bodies. I'll admit that there are times that I feel that maybe I should lose a couple pounds and sometimes I do worry about gaining weight. I really should not worry about how I look because I am perfect just the way I am and should not have to worry about how the media wants me to look. I think it would be great if the media would show less girls and women who are super skinny and show a mixture of different sizes so that we are not pressured to look extremely thin. We should not have to worry about being skinny, instead we should all be confident in our own body and love ourselves no matter what size we are.