The Perfect Body

The Perfect Body

On coffee tables all around America sit the current monthly edition of Vogue magazine. A magazine that is created in order to show America, especially teen girls, what the current perfect body image is. This body image is most times unattainable unless eating rice cakes and water for every meal is appealing. America had become a media infiltrated society. This infiltration has taken a large toll on the female body. What is sexy and beautiful, now-a-days is determined by movies, television and magazines. Lauren Greenfield, a widely known professional photographer, has spent an extensive amount of time studying the modern day girl through her photography. She confidently probes the extremes and compulsions that plague many women in our media based culture. Girls today are conditioned by society’s expectations to go to any extreme to attain the perfect body image.
The media puts an immense amount of pressure on girls to have a beautiful body. Magazine...