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"Perfect bodies" and Eating disorders

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If you don't know what is going on this is for you. This post is going to be about:  The media's unrealistic expectations of the "perfect body" and how it affects men and women today.  The portrayal of the "perfect body" on social media :      All the way back from the 15th century when the simple forms of media were created such as magazines, books, newspapers, and pamphlets, the image portrayed has imprinted the idea of unrealistic body types. Today, companies use advertisements to continue portraying the stigma that not all bodies are beautiful, which is far from the truth. Companies still continue to portray the image of men with hyper-masculine characteristics and females with "perfect" bodies, this simultaneously creates the stigma that these certain body types are all that is plausible, creating the idea in young men and women that their body is "not right", that their body is "ugly", this portrayal creates men and women