When I think of real beauty, I picture the models and famous people in today’s pop culture. This may sound shallow, but it is what society has led me to believe is the essence of beauty. I know how hard it is for some women to accept their body for what it is, and that is why no advertising scheme could possibly change someone’s mind about accepting her body.
Sure, a television ad for Dove, featuring women of all shapes, could make one feel good about herself for the time being, but it will not have a lasting effect. I for one did not buy the Dove products because of its campaign for real beauty. It honestly had no effect on me accepting my body. It is the model or the gorgeous actress that keeps us striving to better ourselves, because we cannot accept our bodies. No beauty campaign can change that. Even without the models or the actresses, women try to change their look in order to be like someone they are familiar with, perhaps a neighbor or co-worker. I almost think striving for physical perfection is instinctive. I do not believe women obsess over their image as Orbach so bluntly puts it by saying “It’s the only way to be. She will involve herself in trying to look younger, skinnier, taller, bigger-breasted, smaller-breasted and making sure ever surface is coiffed…” (388). Few women consume themselves with the thoughts of changing their bodies. There is not always that feeling of having to transform yourself.
Magazines such as Seventeen and Self provide positive ways of changing your look or improving your lifestyle. After I flip through those magazines, I feel a sense of motivation to enhance my looks, not feeling depressed by the fact that I may never look like Rachel McAdams. The fact is that no matter what someone does to change her body, she will never accept herself for what she is. She will always find some part of her to alter at some point in her life, and there is nothing wrong with that, and there is nothing we can do to change that.
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