Well, Kamberg claims, from the National Institute on Media and the Family, that seventy-eight percent of teenage girls decline. Why, you may ask. The answer is the media. As young girls grow into their teenage years, the media continues to bloom as a “significant role in the development of identity” (Frith and Mueller 35). It is said that these “3,200 young women…feel that ‘being pretty and thin’ was the ‘most important thing’” (Bawdon). The reason that those young, teenage girls – those seventy-eight percent – are unhappy with their bodies is because these girls are “influenced of pictures of impossibly skinny women” (Bawdon). Magazines, television, or any digital-type media demonstrate unrealistic images of women with these “‘ideal’ bodies” that are difficult to reach (Kamberg 8). It should be understood that these teenagers are undergoing puberty – “a time…most likely to compare themselves to others” (Kamberg 18). Nevertheless, this time is critical for adolescents when media sends unachievable beauty standards that can cause disastrous
Well, Kamberg claims, from the National Institute on Media and the Family, that seventy-eight percent of teenage girls decline. Why, you may ask. The answer is the media. As young girls grow into their teenage years, the media continues to bloom as a “significant role in the development of identity” (Frith and Mueller 35). It is said that these “3,200 young women…feel that ‘being pretty and thin’ was the ‘most important thing’” (Bawdon). The reason that those young, teenage girls – those seventy-eight percent – are unhappy with their bodies is because these girls are “influenced of pictures of impossibly skinny women” (Bawdon). Magazines, television, or any digital-type media demonstrate unrealistic images of women with these “‘ideal’ bodies” that are difficult to reach (Kamberg 8). It should be understood that these teenagers are undergoing puberty – “a time…most likely to compare themselves to others” (Kamberg 18). Nevertheless, this time is critical for adolescents when media sends unachievable beauty standards that can cause disastrous