Fashion+Magazines

**Thin Is In!**   This is the message potrayed by fashion magazines. Don't believe the lies and give into temptation to be what the media says is "beautiful"? Many have already fallen victim to the media's game, don't let yourself or the ones you love be another player. 

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The idealized image of beauty is everywhere a teenage girl looks. She sees it while watching movies, in billboards, and even while checking out at the grocery store. At the grocery store check out you will find candy, tabloids and magazines. Fashion magazines and the rail thin models that grace the pages are one of the many assumed factors that contribute in excessive dieting in teenage girls. Yes, there are fashion magazines for plus size women, but to youth culture, big is out. Our society and a person's social status is based upon how you look. The look in this case is thin. This idea of thin being beautiful was started in magazines and the people who are plastered throughout the pages. Everyday people gaze through magazines, wondering what they could do to look more like these models. Plus, the magazines have advertisements of new diets and diet pills for people to lose weight in a quick way. Fashion magazines play a part of a person's negative self image. =====



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This chart explains how women are affected by fashion magazines. It shows how pictures and articles made young girls feel they were to fat and needed to lose weight fast to have the ideal perfect body that the models and actresses. =====