Madelyn Chase Chandler
Mrs. Harmon
ENG 101
6 Dec. 2014
The Struggle for the “Perfect” Image How much pressure do teenage girls feel to have the “perfect” body? There are hundreds of issues today that deal with girls and their image. From the very cliché question of “Does this make me look fat?” to the thoughts of “what will they think?” girls are constantly brought down about not looking how they “should”. If people can see the perfections in each other’s imperfections, then there wouldn’t be a need for a “perfect” image. The causes of this figure are our public figures, such as models and actresses, the diets everyone goes on, and then there is also the photo shop and photo editing that happens on a daily basis. Some effects of it are negative like bullying in schools and on social media and then eating disorders. There are some people who try to keep females positive about their image. Overall there needs to be something said about the way girls think they should look based on what other people think. The women that young girls look up to do not always give off the best examples of not only self-image, but also their attitudes and mannerisms do not set respectable examples. Everyone is built differently. I was taught this useful lesson when I was younger from a show called “That’s So Raven” on Disney Channel. In this particular episode, titled “That’s So Not Raven”, Raven designs a dress and it gets featured in a runway fashion show. She wants to be the one to walk down the runway in the dress, but the judges at her tryout didn’t like her “chunky” appearance. Raven doesn’t let that stop her though. She tries to get into shape, but she fails at that. In the end she doesn’t let that bring her down. She walks the runway in her dress instead. Raven taught all of the girls my age that it doesn’t matter what size we are, and all that matters is that we think