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In this world there are secrets kept aware from us because sometimes we can’t handle the truth. Society is destroying the image of beauty. Marilyn Monroe was a figure of beauty girls wanted to be but that no longer exists. Now being skinny is beautiful. Having a thigh gap and hipbones showing is beautiful. When you look through magazines and look at fashion runways you will only see thin, skinny, and tiny models. Skinny is pretty. Society makes you feel the need to wear makeup and be skinny.
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I had deiced to do my project on this topic when one day I was scrolling through my instagram like a normal pre-teen/teen does. I had landed on this picture of a very thin girl looking in a mirror and in the mirror was “fat” version of her and in the corner of the picture it said, “ You will never be good enough for them.” I thought to myself ‘ who is them? ’ And then I realized ‘them’ is society. I had kept thinking about how society is so messed that girls feel that they are not pretty unless they are skinny. I remembered that most models were like twigs and very thin like Cara Delevingne a model that modeled for Topshop and Victoria’s Secret. I had later seen a video of a girl giving tips on how to be skinny. A lot of the stuff she had been saying was about how to be bulimic and anorexic. I realized that skinny is what society loves. “bulimia, which often goes hand in hand with anorexia, does its own unique health damage. bulimics who purge by vomiting wreak havoc on their digestive tracts by chronically bathing them in stomach acid, which can lead to digestive disorders like reflux esophagitis.”[http://www.webmd.com/, unknown]
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I discovered about girls wanting to look like Tumblr models who look liked they had been doing there hair and make-up on for three hours to get one good picture. One of the models that caught my eye was a model named Acacia Brinley Clark. Acacia was super thin and was known for dating youtuber’s at young age and posting pictures on Tumblr and that is when I discovered the saying “ Society Killed The Teenager.” I found a page on Tumblr dedicated to “Society Killed The Teenager,” and a link to another Tumblr page that was about Self-harm and how girls starve to look like models or because they feel they are “fat.” “anorexia nervosa takes an enormous toll on the body. but that's not all. it has the highest death rate of any mental illness. between 5% and 20% of people who develop the disease eventually die from it. The longer you have it, the more likely you will die from it.”[http://www.webmd.com/, unknown]
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The girls who can't get the body they want will punish themselves by cutting, burning, hitting themselves, intentionally preventing wounds from healing, or by taking deadly or sleeping pills. One of the biggest ways they hurt themselves is by cutting. They will use any kind of sharp object that will make them bleed. Sometimes they will overdose on cutting or taking to many pills. “self-harm can be a way of coping with problems. it may help you express feelings you can’t put into words, distract you from your life, or release emotional pain.” [http://www.helpguide.org/, unknown]. Society makes girls feel that they will never be good enough no matter what they do.
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In conclusion society makes girls feel that no matter what
they look like they will never be good enough. Girls are pressured to look a
certain way like skinny and unhealthy girls because that is “beautiful.”
Pressuring girls to be skinny can cause them to die. Skinny girls like Acacia
Brinley Clark ruining the image of beauty. Society makes you girls that they
need to be skinny and wear expensive makeup to be pretty.
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Works Cited
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"Self-harm." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec. 2013. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.
"Anorexia Nervosa." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Dec. 2013. Web. 16 Dec. 2013.
Feature, Gina ShawWebMD. "Anorexia: The Body Neglected." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2013.
"Cutting & Self-Harm." Cutting and Self-Harm: Self-Injury Help, Support, and Treatment. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.
"Self-harm." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Dec. 2013. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.
"Anorexia Nervosa." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Dec. 2013. Web. 16 Dec. 2013.
Feature, Gina ShawWebMD. "Anorexia: The Body Neglected." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2013.