Hello, my name is Adriana. I am a senior in college currently working towards a Bachelor's in Psychology. I am the middle child of three even though I act like the oldest. I chose to enroll in Body Image and Reality because that is a topic of great interest to me. We are constantly faced with body image ideals and it is so unfortunate that some people take these impossible ideals to heart enough that they are willing to harm their health. One of the people that I look up to is Tyra Banks and I would love to be involved in helping people increase their self esteem in the same work that she does through awareness in her talk show and volunteer work such as her camp T Zone. She continually has topics about body image on her talk show and I love that she takes the time out of her day to do just that. She uses her counseling training to help others and I would love to have a career that does just that. I could go on, but that is enough about Tyra Banks. I just love her!
As we enter the 21st century, one of the most pressing issues presented to people about body image is the constant pressure to be perfect. Everyday I walk in a store I see things like look at which celebrities have cellulite, how quick someone lost their pregnancy weight, or look who is fat and how I lost 40 pounds. It is ridiculous that we portray these images to impressionable minds. Nobody is perfect and I love that Cindy Crawford is pronouncing to the world that she has cellulite and she loves it and embraces it. The constant photoshopping of pictures and telling young men and women that this is what beauty looks like is sickening. The celebrities don't even look like that.
I expect to learn more about women's issues because this is my very first women's studies class. I also expect to learn more about other races and ethnicites issues other than that of my own. I also expect to learn a lot about myself and other's insecurities that I may have not known ever existed. I just expect for this class to be fun, interesting, and informative.
5 questions I will answer in this class........
- What are other races and ethnicites body image issues?
- What began the obsession of thin stickly bodies as the standard of beauty, what happen to the Marilyn Monroe image with curves?
- What are men's issues with body image?
- What are the standards of body image that men and women consider most important in the opposite sex?
- What makes women more obsessed with body image than that of men?
Thanks 4 reading!!!
