Body and Self Esteem Issues

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start to believe it. It starts as a child, usually a kid that suffers from neglect, abuse, and misuse will have low self esteem. Also, if a child is growing up without his or her basic needs met can feel unworthy. But the self esteem issues don’t stop as a child, adults have problems with low self esteem as well.
People are going to extremes to look just like the girl on the cover of every magazine. Nearly 11.9 million Americans get plastic surgery a year, showing the amount of people who will lie under a knife to get that flawless look they want. In 2007 surgeons carried out 2.3 million cosmetic procedures; the largest number that has ever been recorded and it almost doubled the numbers in 1999. In the article, “Obsession with Celebrity Bodies” by Joyce McMillano stated “It’s no longer good enough for the media to claim innocence over the role they play in perpetuating this cultural obsession.” He goes on to discuss the situation for children and young teens, whose bodies ...

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not what society tells them they should be. An article from “Common Sense Media” writes. “Characters on T.V. are often shown with 'perfect’ bodies that most people do not have. Women are shown to thin, men are shown with larger than life muscles. Even if you know that what you see is not normal or not real, it can still have an impact on you.” Teen girls and women are not the only group with self esteem issues; men have their problems as well.
Men are just as affected by the media as women, just in different ways. Men can look at a photograph of a male model and it often makes the person work out at extreme rates to produce more muscle mass, and in their own subconscious ...

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