Does the media encourage eating disorders?

As everyone knows, the media presents women in a very untrue light. Photo shop is used alot when editing pictures of making the celebrities look perfect. They do this by usually making the skin clear, slimmer waist and bigger bust and many other ways. Although some people could do with a touch up or two, it is completely over-used when its performed on pictures of celebrities.

With constant reminders of celebrities looking practically perfect, it puts a tremendous amount of pressure on young girls and boys of this generation. The images make the regular people think that anything less that perfect obviously isn't good enough. This sort of pressure to look 'perfect' gets into young peoples heads which make eating disorders appear.

This is a perfect example of how photo shop can change the way people look. This sort of image represents that its okay to look fake and be edited. In some cases yes its okay. But when it leads to young children starving themselves to look like these people-its going too far.

Even though photo shop is a huge reason for eating disorders, it isn't the only thing that brings out eating disorders. Another factor that brings out eating disorders are 'supermodels' With a supermodel averaging around a size 0. It puts a extremely large amount of pressure on this generation to look like them. Any one who watches supermodels on the catwalk think that that is what you need to look like to be a model or in that sort of industry.

These are all supermodels. In my opinion they are too skinny. Although they get payed to look like this, it sends out an unhealthy message to young people. Teenagers around the age of 13-17 look at these images and think that to be like this they have to make their bodies suffer.

Although everyone wants to look nice i think that the media need to know when to tone it down abit because it leads to depression and then gaining an eating disorder which isn't healthy for growing children.