It even goes as far as magazines promising that if women can lose the last five pounds they’ll find love, success, and happiness. Companies are attuned to the fact that the more insecure women and girls are about their body, the more likely they are to buy new products to compensate for what they feel that they are lacking. This promotes a vicious cycle of promoting body dissatisfaction (Sumithran, Prendergast, Delbridge, Purcell, Shulkes, Kriketos, &Proietto, 2011). The constant exposure to thin airbrushed beautiful celebrities not only encourages women to buy certain products to make themselves feel better, but it directly correlates with lower self esteem and unhealthy eating habits (Sumithran et al, 2011). A study that was conducted in 2009 even uncovered that “girls who were unhappy with their bodies—whether they were genuinely overweight or not—were significantly more at risk for attempting suicide (Girls Guiding UK,
It even goes as far as magazines promising that if women can lose the last five pounds they’ll find love, success, and happiness. Companies are attuned to the fact that the more insecure women and girls are about their body, the more likely they are to buy new products to compensate for what they feel that they are lacking. This promotes a vicious cycle of promoting body dissatisfaction (Sumithran, Prendergast, Delbridge, Purcell, Shulkes, Kriketos, &Proietto, 2011). The constant exposure to thin airbrushed beautiful celebrities not only encourages women to buy certain products to make themselves feel better, but it directly correlates with lower self esteem and unhealthy eating habits (Sumithran et al, 2011). A study that was conducted in 2009 even uncovered that “girls who were unhappy with their bodies—whether they were genuinely overweight or not—were significantly more at risk for attempting suicide (Girls Guiding UK,