How Beauty Standards Became Unrealistic in The U.S.

When I was 16, I wanted to be a <a href="http://www.suicidegirls.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Suicide Girl</a>. I wanted my photos to be plastered on the internet, and maybe even a few people’s walls. My only aspiration was to become beautiful, because, for some reason, I foolishly thought if I was beautiful then I would be happy and everything else in my life would be easier (and how could I not when the media I was exposed to consistently showed thin, happy, successful women in the limelight?) Instead what I found was six-plus years of body dissatisfaction, insecurity, bulimia, and body dysmorphia. Now having recovered, I’m left with a keen view on body image depictions in front of me, and there’s something unsettling in view; social media culture is obsessed with unrealistic body proportions and beauty standards. <a href="https://medium.com/le-fool/how-beauty-standards-became-unrealistic-in-the-u-s-741008b31427">Click Here</a>