one can be considered beautiful. If someone has a cold heart and a hateful soul, then even all the masks created by the media cannot make the person beautiful. Thus, the media’s images of beauty are only superficial; real beauty shines from within a person. An anonymous victim of anorexia once said, “I see myself very clearly, somewhere between fat and thin, but not yet perfect.” As the quote illustrates, the media’s images are causing many average, healthy adolescents to question their own body image. This never-ending struggle to be at the ultimate level of perfection leads to nothing but harm. Since the American public seems obsessed with being beautiful, the media should redefine the concept of beauty around being healthy, loving, and altruistic. Until we redefine the media’s vision of beauty it can only continue to be detrimental to the public who live with these images daily....
