Beauty+in+America

="Barbie is an iconic figure to little girls all over the world, she's one of our first role models and we want to grow up to look like her and be like her, but is she really all that great?"=

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2133552/Valeria-Lukyanova-pictures-Real-life-Barbie-seeks-worlds-convincing-doll.html = =

==== But growing up wanting to look like barbie is not ideal, in fact it's not even healthy. The look we want to achieve of being barbie can even kill us, her head would be the same circumference of her waist. Because Barbie’s neck is twice as long as the average human’s, it would be impossible for her to hold up her head. Her legs are 50 percent longer than her arms, (the average woman’s legs are only 20 percent longer than her arms). She’d also have to walk on all fours (her feet are so disproportionately small, her chest would pull her forward onto her toes). So do we really all want to achieve the goal in looking like barbie? ====







A "woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion" -Blanche DuBois



“These unrealistic images of women, who are often airbrushed or partially computer generated, have a detrimental impact on women and how they feel about themselves.” -Laurie Mintz (Researcher)







"Mass media's use of such unrealistic models sends an implicit message that in order for a woman to be considered beautiful, she must be unhealthy." -Kasey L. Sedar media type="youtube" key="jU3OOva6r10" height="315" width="560" (just listen up to 45 secs)

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