The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.
I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.
I'm done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else - and it's not me.
Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.