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Suffering With Self Image    // "It is hard to not be effected by the media bombarding us constantly with the message, "Thin is in!" On TV commercials we are told to "lose weight fast" or "exercise for thirty minutes" to have a beautiful body. Magazines displaying thin, attractive women try to convince us that we are not okay until we "slim our thighs." The overriding message is that we need to change something about ourselves in order to be loved or successful. In particular, if we have thin, fit bodies, 'our lives will be perfect" -Yarborough, 1999 //

 ====The media is a tool that gives the world news and information. It tells us all types of things from the weather to the presidential election and even how to perceive ourselves. The perception of ourselves is not something we would most likely see on the 6 o'clock news but, on magazine covers, popular TV sitcoms, and commercials. It seems as if every other commercial on television is about how to lose weight quick with a new diet or a pill. The world is being brainwashed into thinking that being as skinny as a rail is the only way to be beautiful. The truth is that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. The media is making people resort in starving themselves to become what they think is the only type of beauty. In recent studies it shows that 8 million people in America have an eating disorder. 95% of those who have an eating disorder are between the ages 12 and 25. Celebrities are these children's role models. They want to be just like them including how they look. Celebrities with eating disorders or are super skinny influence children to result in doing procedures that can result in death. Are these the role models we want for the younger generation? The media sparked the revolution that thin is equivalent to beauty.(Rachel Golub) ====

 // " The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."-Thomas Merton Quotes  //