In todays modern world, we are constantly bombarded by media outlets trying to push a modern sence of both beauty and style, but this constant assault on the human subconcence can have negative effects on our idea of beauty.
A very good friend of mine, who we'll call Amy, was diagnosed with anarexia, and phycosis, a few months after being introduced to a glamour magazine. Amy, like many young girls gradually began to imitate and emulate the lifestyle and the people she obsessed with in those magazines. Amy's obsession turned life threatening after a few months of extreme dieting, perhaps if Amy had never been exposed to the magazine in the first place she would not of tried so desperately to be like those people imortalized on the pictures of the magazine.
As of now Amy spends most of her days in mental facilitation, slowly climbing up the long ladder to recovery, her parents hope that she will gain her weight back and that Amy's younger daugher with not travel down the same treacherous path as her sister.
Every year there are thousands and thousands more cases of anerixa every year. Supriseling every year the kids seem to keep getting younger and younger. This is because of the easy access to pouplar magazines such as Glamor, or People. Kids see someone older then them and want to act like them be like them and overall be as pouplar as they are. You can see it in everyday lives of young girls who e
Unfortunately, Amy isn't a secluded case, every year thousands more case of anerixa are reported, shockingly the age of the victims are getting younger. This can be atributed in no small part to the massive amounts of mass media circulating through our daily lives. Young children tend to emulate the likeness of people or images they are exposed to, much in the same fasion that a younger sibling with emulate a popular older sibling in an attempt to gain some of that popularity themselfs.