Pressure on Ladies to Possess ‘Perfect’ Bodies

Many youngsters have concerns about their body image, and such is among the most significant concerns the females have. The matter is more associated with psychological features than bodily elements. Women and young girls are afraid that with no perfect body images, they can face rejection in society and exclusion from some other societal groups. The body-shaming practice has been in the community for a long time, but it has escalated considerably with the increasing technology dominance in everyday life (Botero Para. 2). Many are the times, ladies want to appear beautiful and possess a particular body type. Unfortunately, it is nearly never concerning the ladies doing it for themselves but rather typically about someone else or the society.  Many channels portray skinny girls as having the ideal body shapes, and celebrities have to lose some amount of their weight to play a role in an event. The paper argues whether ladies are excessively pressurized to possess perfect bodies or not.

Many times girls talk of getting fat, wanting to join the gym, and unable to put on some clothes as they are too dark for them. A girls’ attitude survey in 2016, showed that nearly forty percent of ladies aged between seven to twenty-one years were unhappy with their bodies and looks (Nazareth Para.5). Such proves the presence of excess pressure on them to possess perfect body images.

Fashion and media brands are playing a significant role in pressurizing youngsters to possess perfect bodies. Advertisements and movies consistently portray females possessing the ideal body images as having size zero shape, ideal physique, and fair skin (Nazareth Para.6). Numerous ladies are motivated by various celebrities who post airbrushed and changed images of themselves, providing the young age group with fake pictures of what their natural bodies look like. Women are co-modifying their body appearances as they try to match the false looks peddled by social media beauty influencers. It permits youngster ladies to evaluate themselves against their peers and many other teens are posting or are online.

Moreover, social media creates an opportunity for people to make comments on female looks at any time. They mock the other kinds of bodies as well as making it appear like an offense to be dark-toned or plus-size. The attitude has an enormous impact on the addressees, who begin to believe that a particular body form is perfect. Celebrities, as well as the magazines, are some of the reasons why ladies want to have their body looking better than it originally was. The industry, such as magazines and TV ads, does not perceive that applying photoshop makes other people question and dislike their bodies.

With the development of social media, the pressure of wearing heavy contoured makeup, dressing up, striking a pose, and uploading perfect and filtered pictures to attract numerous likes is a probable insecurity source for many ladies. The current generation is facing unachievable appearance pressure to have perfect bodies. Thus, girls are looking for specific ways to alter their looks to feel attractive and accepted by many people.

The thought of summer is dreaded for girls. Throughout the period, excess pressure is exerted onto ladies since they need to possess the perfect body for summer (Kaily Para.5). The summer period is harder on the ladies who feel the pressure as it is the period when the ladies are most emotionally and physically exposed. Some girls are conditioned to consider cosmetic surgery.

Some ladies are continually facing condemnation concerning their bodies when compared to other ladies. Some are forever either too fat or too skinny or have no "real female” curves. Females are anticipated to possess big butts and big boobs and no stretch marks (Kaily Para.6). All over the media, ladies having long legs acquire idolization. Yet, in reality, females having long legs are always told that men love short ladies and do not want their partners being taller when compared to them. Such myths place the ladies in the dilemma of what exactly is a perfect body and make them even change their diets to gain what they think is the ideal body shape and appearance. 

Peers and friends sometimes motivate people to be at their best. However, unintentionally or intentionally, the motivation may turn into excess pressure. Occasionally, male friends may also exert excessive influence on ladies to possess perfect bodies. Acquaintances can continuously make fun of or nag one’s imperfect body. The friends may continually ask one to visit the gymnasium or propose some pointless health guidelines so that one may lose their weight fast. Consequently, such advice from friends pressurizes the individuals to work on ways of altering their body shapes to gain approval and acceptance from their peers.

Founded on social media, people set idealistic perfection and beauty standards for ladies that are unreasonable and illogical (Nazareth para.15). The society may be very judgmental to females about their body appearances. It is continuously telling females how they should act and how they should dress and how to look. Consequently, girls find themselves trying everything to make sure they conform to the societal standards of a perfect body and looks.

The family is another aspect which may pressurize female members to have a perfect body image. Parents require their girls to have perfect looks. Consequently, they continuously remind them of their appearance and weight gain. The main concern of the parentages is that their daughters would not get an excellent match due to their imperfect bodies. Thus, parentages end up exerting excessive pressure on ladies to possess perfect bodies.

Boyfriends and husbands are essential aspects of either degrading or improving a lady's body image and self-esteem. Sadly, several females become prey to a continuous apprehension of losing the spouses lest they have looks and body change. Occasionally, the spouses may be rude or demeaning or insulting and thus putting pressure on their female spouses to keep a perfect body.

Women and young girls are concerned about their appearances as they do not want to be bullied (Kaily Para.4). Ladies are continually calling one another ugly or fat to bring one another down. As a result, most of the too fat or the too skinny ladies to want to change their body shapes and avoid the humiliation.

In the effort to attain what the society anticipates, there are continually side effects in this situation, mortal ones. Every sixty-two minutes, at least an individual dies because of a direct outcome of an eating disorder, as per the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (Botero Para. 3). In this age, ladies will undertake anything to fulfill societal demands and imitate the people deemed perfect. Some ladies will opt for extreme actions to lose their weight, such as unhealthy diets, surgery, and excessive exercise. Some of these ladies, in the end, suffer from consumption disorders because of their distorted viewpoints.

Women have issues with their beauty because of puberty. During this stage, their bodies start to change physically, and many times, they do not like how the body appearances turn out. The ladies either feel they are too skinny, too fat, or they have wide hips. They also think the period messes with the appearance of their face as it turns out with acne. Generally, they dislike how it changes their appearance. Also, some women tend to attempt and eat better or perhaps not even to eat at all to acquire their body shape at the condition that they would like it to be.

Ladies are not being pressured by other people to have a perfect body. The ladies perceive the social media model, and they think that should be the ideal body and wish they could look like them. That is them exerting pressure on themselves to appear like the magazine and social media models and not the other way round. The models in the magazines do not tell the other ladies that they are not pretty if they do not look like them. Instead, they have the self-confidence essential in society.

Young girls are so anxious about their looks and how other individuals see them. Girls should not be concerned about their looks, however. Also, they worry about the facial appearances as well as if other persons will mock them. Being overweight should not be something that girls need to reflect on nearly every day. Just because an individual talk of overweight influencing a lady's beauty, does not indicate that such a statement is true. Thus, no pressure is being put on ladies to have a perfect body; instead, it is their perceptions.

In conclusion, there are numerous pressures from various places, including advertisements on TVs, billboards, social media, online videos, and magazines on women to possess perfect bodies. Peers, friends, family, and even spouses are pressurizing the female gender to have the ideal body either directly or indirectly. The pressures exerted on teenagers to attain a particular look frequently lead to detrimental outcomes. For the ladies to feel accepted and approved by society and their spouses, they assume various measures of altering their body shapes and appearances to suit what is considered perfect. Consequently, they end up suffering from multiple disorders and have low self-esteem. The society has labeled a particular body type as ideal, that is, toned, skinny, and tall. There is a tremendous increase in pressure on the feminine gender to attain this typecast. Ladies will take severe actions to meet the expectations of the community.

Works Cited

Botero Maria. "Is There Too Much Pressure On Women To Have The "Perfect" Body?". The Discoverer, 2019, https://thediscoverer.columbus.edu.co/opinion/is-there-too-much-pressure-on-women-to-have-the-perfect-body/.

Kaily. "Is There Too Much Pressure On Girls To Have The Perfect Body?". The Panther Press, 2018, http://pantherpress.fenwayhs.org/2018/05/21/is-there-too-much-pressure-on-girls-to-have-the-perfect-body/.

Nazareth, Felicia. "Is There Too Much Pressure On Females To Have Perfect Bodies? - Alignthoughts". Alignthoughts, 2018, http://www.alignthoughts.com/is-there-too-much-pressure-on-girls-to-have-perfect-bodies/.