How Does the Female Modeling Industry Effect Body Image in Young Women?

By mariahsuarez

  • Depleting Body Image: Research Paper

    http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/357/body-image.htm
    Contains statistical data and survey questions.
    Was a research project made by college students and questioned other college students. Those who were questioned were of different ages, heights, skin color and weight. *Doesn't have a specific year listed to when it was written, but I made some observations due to the resources at the end of the paper.

  • The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty *Example

    The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty *Example
    A campaign started by Dove that asked for women's opinions about beauty. Such as, do you percieve yourself as beautiful? They came back with data that only 2% of women find themselves beautiful. From then on the campaign spoke of how wrong stereotypes of beauty are and to inspire women of all ages to find body peace within themselves.

  • Female Body Image and the Mass Media

    http://www.westminstercollege.edu/myriad/index.cfm?parent=...&detail=4475&content=4795
    States that even young girls by the age of 9 still want to lose weight and so do girls that are going through puberty.
    So many young women of different sizes want to be skinner due to what they see in ads.
    "ultra thin"=standard beauty. *Another guess on what year it was written.

  • Do Thin Models Warp Girls' Body Image

    http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-25-thin-models_x.htm
    Info that fashion companies use skinny models:
    Because they believe they would sell more products because being skinny is very popular at the moment.
    Don't find it odd seeing a model pass out on the runway from not eating.
    Don't find it odd to see a model's bones protruding from their skin.
    Think that clothing looks better on skinny people anyway.

  • Effects of Media on Body Image

    http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/2009/BodyImageMedia.htm
    Studies and data were from USF.
    "thin ideal"
    Reality tv shows, show real women of all colors and sizes.
    Diet and exercise articles are very popular in the media.

    Used magazines as an independent variable for their studies.

  • Fashion Model Size *example

  • 'Seventeen' Magazine takes no-photoshop pledge after 8th grader's campaign

    <a href='' >http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/seventeen-magazine-pledges-real-girls-pictures-bid-readers-self-esteem-article-1.1108227</a>
    14 year old Julia Bluhm, created a campaign to stop popular magazines such as Seventeen Magazine, to not digitally edit the faces and bodies of their models in their magazines. That they should use "real every day girls who are healthy" in their magazines. Which later inspired the company to create the Body Peace Treaty.

  • Seventeen Magazine: Body Peace Treaty *example

    Seventeen Magazine: Body Peace Treaty *example
    After Bluhm's protest against photoshopping, the editor of Seventeen Magazine, Ann Shocket created a new feature. Called the Body Peace Treaty, that ask young women to sign a vow to being more caring and more accepting of their bodies. The treaty contains a list of advice and statements that young women should follow to accomplish body peace.

  • It's Amazing How Much The 'Perfect Body' Has Changed In 100 Years

    The article studied models from different time periods. That models have been the same shape and size as always: skinny and tall. That is is still the same in today's society.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05/perfect-body-change-beauty-ideals_n_4733378.html

  • Truth in Advertising Act of 2014 *example

    <a href='' >https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4341</a>
    A recent law stating that for advertising there should be no use of photoshoping or editing the body by companies.

  • There's a push to make photoshopped models in ads illegal