that good. Women feel they must look like supermodels in order to be accepted in today's society. All this can happen from just seeing a billboard or a couple of commercials. These media images make women feel less about themselves, they want to look like supermodels: tall, thin, sculpted. Due to these perfect women, girls all over the US are suffering from anorexia show a refusal to maintain body weight over a minimal normal weight for age and height. They are disturbed by their body image and are always claiming to "feel fat". They have intense fear of gaining weight. It seems as these forms of entertainment have the power to mold womens attitudes. Hollywood often has the tendency to also make people feel ugly. Women look at these stars trying to emulate the body type of the superstars. Stars have personal trainers, stylists, make-up artists and people to airbrush the wrinkles and cellulite out of their magazine covers. These people all create an image that is meant to be presented in a two-hour snippet or frozen in a photograph. The bodies we see on TV are perfect. They are bodies of actresses, models, and weight trainers. These people keep themselves in showroom condition all the time and are expected too. Another cause of eating disorders is when women compare their body types to those of their peers. The competitive attitudes betweem women are often the main causes of eating disorders in a womans social group. These competitive feelings usually arise throughout groups of friends or social groups that women include themselves in. Youthfulness, sexuality and appearance are all categories which women tend to compete in. No matter how close these women seem to be, most of the time there are always jealousies, and parts of the group that feel threatened by the others. Due to these jealousies, women will go to any extent to look better than the other women in their social group. Most of the time eating disorders become a part of this ...
