Am I Too Fat?

We live in a culture where it is not surprising to go to the grocery store and while standing in line to buy your food you see all the magazines with the headlines talking about how this star is a size 2 and this other one needs to lose weight, who is only a size 6. There is so much attention given to weight and beauty that it seems as if the two go hand in hand. For many one might get the impression that for one to be considered beautiful in this culture then one must be thin by Hollywood’s standards. One only has to turn on the TV and they will see news reports on which stars in Hollywood are overweight (who may only be a size 4), which have the best bikini bodies, and which are the sexiest slim stars in Hollywood. Reality TV shows, which by the sounds of it are suppose to be showing reality, are giving people a very distorted view of what reality really is. According to a commercial for a new TV show on Fox it says that the average size of a female on a reality TV program is a size 2, but the average size of a women in the United States is a size 14. These so called reality shows are doing anything but showing what real reality is in the world. However, one has to wonder who this focus on weight and beauty is affecting the most in this culture? Continually studies show that the group of people affected most by all of this pressure of what size one needs to be is teenage girls. Teenage girls have become so affected by all of this pressure that now studies are showing that they are more affected by many psychological because of this pressure, such as depression and eating disorders. Although the media may help provide entertainment in people’s lives, the psychological effects, such as depression and eating disorders that it causes in the lives of teenage girls need to be noticed and understood.


Ok, so this is only the first paragharph of the paper. I am working on it, it is just I write different and I am not sure how much of this I am even going to be changing. So, please give me insight that you have on how I can change anything that you might not like in this or not understand. Thanks!