The issue of manipulating digital images in magazines.

I don’t think this is ever ok. As a young girl who use to look at herself in despair because when she looked at the magazine cover girls, she didn’t look like any of them. I use to not eat in middle school and wore baggy sweatshirts to hide my body because I wasn’t thin and confident in my size. I didn’t know that these girls were already photoshopped and tweaked to look how the makers of the magazines wanted.

I feel like girls want to look like superstars/ models in the magazines. They want to feel beautiful and popular no matter how ridiculous the newest trend is. I remember when crop tops were so cool in middle school and I was heavier right there where the skin showed. I would go to Forever 21 with my best friends and try them on time after time and never liked the way I looked in them no matter how hard I sucked it in. I used to read magazine articles on how to lose weight in 20 days and see the picture of these itty bitty girls who in all reality didn’t even look like that.