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Anorexia

Girls in the United States are starving for perfection and going to great lengths to obtain it by any means necessary. That could mean harming themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally or taking on masochistic behavior. It could sometimes lead to the point of no return with irremediable damage or in the worst case scenario, death. In today’s society, all of what is portrayed on television are disgustingly thin like Barbie actresses, models and celebrities and that is what most teenage girls strive to be like. Teenage girls are idolizing these celebrities mainly on their waist size and not what really matters like their personality and intellect. But what most of these girls don't know is that many of these famous people have eating disorders like anorexia and are not by any means healthy. If they knew the facts, they would not be striving to be what they think Americans want to see them as. If these young girls are not careful the results can be fatal. That is sad and also scary because no one should die in order to be a size zero. Nothing is worth dying over. Americans should be more concerned with trying to stay healthy rather than striving to be thin.
The article “Mission Impossible” talks about how our culture places too much emphasis on being thin and how girls are being attacked everywhere they look with images of unrealistic beauty. “Deluged by images from TV, movies and magazines, teenage girls do battle with an increasingly unrealistic standard of beauty and pay a price.”(qtd.in Schneider and Levitt) They say that thin is in, but where do we draw the line and is the entertainment industry really to blame for bombarding girls with what the rest of the country sees as perfection? The media is relentless in its criticism of weight. According to Joel Schumacher “Alicia Silverstone appeared in public despite the fact that, like many of her teenage peers around the country, she had just added on 5 or 10 pounds. Was she congratulated for the...