An article in IOL about a women who committed suicide after weight loss has shocked me. It revealed unto me how people are so obsessed about their bodies and actually believing everything that the media presents to them as viewers. This woman was obessed about her body and she went to surgery because she wants to look thin and sexy. When she got what she wanted, she did not like it and committed suicide. The media present unto us an “ideal image” of a woman, that she has to be thin and sexy. At the same time the media seduce us by advertising delicious food for example a chocolate sprayed with little sprinkles of water to give that fresh tempting look. For instance the advert of Ola chocolate, the woman in the advert is looking like she is roaring when she is openening her mouth to eat it. This symbolises the moment of transgressing, breaking the rules and standard set by media that you have to be thin. These ideologies that women get from the media about “ideal woman” are making women to feel guilty when they have to eat some things. Because of that guilt some of the women end up being bulimic. Some women crave food but they are scared to be different or to break the media standard of an "ideal woman".
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