Top models annoy women

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

You are not annoyed by the constant flashing of graceful top models on the TV screen and on the pages of glossy magazines. If not, then it remains only to be glad for the state of your psyche. According to American researchers, women who often watch TV and read magazines are increasingly dissatisfied with their bodies due to the disagreement between the image of the ideal self and the image from the cover or screen.

Experts Shelley Grabe and Janet Hyde from the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed 77 previous studies, which involved more than 15 thousand people. “We have shown that it does not matter what kind of impact it is - just watching TV in the evening or magazines or advertising banners on the Internet. If the image focuses on a beautiful female body, it will affect the woman,”says Grabe.

It is interesting that now the media has a much greater influence on women's ideas about beauty and an ideal body than in the 90s of the last century and in the early 2000s, RIA Novosti reports. “This suggests that despite our best efforts to educate women and girls to be critical of media information and to lead a healthy lifestyle, the influence of the media, which implants in their minds the idea of a thin figure as the ideal, is increasing,” says Grabe.

The findings are worrying, as recent research suggests that women's dissatisfaction with their bodies is a major risk factor and can cause low self-esteem, depression, and eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia and obesity.

“I want to emphasize that it is absolutely normal for a woman to want to look attractive. But in our society, the concept of attractiveness has become associated with the promoted non-existent ideals,”said Shelley Grabe. According to the psychologist, the problem is not that people like a beautiful body, but that an unnatural and unhealthy body is considered beautiful.