It's time for some SUPPORT!!

Did you know that 18% of girls are unhappy with their bodies? Girls get the message very early on that their value and worth is about how they look, instead of about their education or their job. In the documentary "MissRepresentation" and out in society, I have learned and seen that women are now conforming to men's ideals. Women want to be skinny, with flawless skin, and a big butt and boobs. Though in reality how many women look like this?

In the movie "White Chicks" Lisa has a melt down about her body in the dressing room. She talks about her thighs, back, and stomach. She believes that she isn't beautiful and can't wear what she wants, because her body isn't perfect. She believes that she is fat even though she is one of the skinniest girls in the movie. 

Though it's not just men's ideals that women are conforming too, women began to pin themselves against other women. Women see actresses with these perfect bodies and they strive to look like them. "MissRepresentation" put it this way, "You never see the photograph of a woman considered beautiful that hasn't been digitally altered to make her absolutely, inhumanly perfect". Women end up measuring themselves against an impossible standard and as a result we see women starving themselves for the perfect body, and that is never good. 


Actresses such as Jennifer Lawrence have taken a stand on this issue. She believes that women should strive to be "healthy" instead of "skinny".  To her, starving yourself is out of the question, it just makes no sense, you need food to survive. 

As a solution to this ongoing problem, we as in men and women, need to start supporting women that believe their bodies aren't perfect.  Every woman should be proud of their bodies' and themselves, instead of worrying about how others will judge them.