Beauty, thanks to negative media, is defined now days as being thin. When reading a magazine or surfing the web teenage girls see all those pictures of the “perfect” celebrities and models. However, what a lot of these girls fail to see is that magazines, usually, use photo editing to modify how celebrities and models look like; they do not think about the process that leads these celebrities to look so beautiful.
Most of the time, pictures of celebrities undergo extensive editing, and of course, the result is a beautiful thin and sexy celebrity. When teenagers see the images of these celebrities, they start to do whatever it takes to look like these images. Due to the redefinition of perfection in the present days, many of the teenagers go to extreme measures to be as slim as the pictures they see. Still, this was not always the case, for instance, Marilyn Monroe was not as thin and slim as the celebrities are now, but she was, and still is, viewed as a beautiful woman.
Pick up a magazine and look closely at the pictures in it, do you see perfection? Nevertheless, have you ever met a woman so perfect? If the answer was no, then how did the models and celebrities get to be so perfect? Well, the answer to that question is photo editing. Proving that the celebrities on magazine covers and in advertisements are not “perfect” is that some magazines have edited the photos leading to a messed up picture. Finally, beauty is not about what the media portrays as perfect