Social Media and the Effect it has on Body Image and Self-esteem in Women/girls
Social media embeds images of women with "perfect" bodies into the physical expectations of females. These types of expectations can injure a girls self-esteem; she may believe she is unattractive. This not only affects female emotions, but also that of males. Males get brainwashed by media to believe only a certain body type is beautiful.
These influences can cause depression and possibly suicide. Women may even turn to drugs to cope with their self-esteem problems, they may even use drugs to lose weight. The effect that drugs have on the body may be weight loss but along with that a drop in iron and other vitamins the body needs. So many depression and self-esteem problems could be avoided with a little more variety in body types from social media.
Women should feel comfortable in their own skin and society should urge this as well. I believe if movies, advertisements, etc., would focus on realistic body types when recruiting models/actors. More body types need to be implanted into society as beautiful. I myself have suffered self-esteem issues because I was called fat. When I was called fat I was only 145 lbs at 5'8"; far from fat. The reality is each woman has a different metabolism and different bone structure that creates their body type. We are all unique and should be able to take pride in how God created us.
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