Title: How Unrealistic Beauty Standards Affect Body Image and Mental Health | Catsup and Mustard
Headings: How a Negative Body Image Affects Mental Health
How a Negative Body Image Affects Mental Health
What Is Body Image?
How Can Society Affect Body Image?

Content: Body image is a personal view and feeling towards one’s body. Having a healthy body image means that you are comfortable with the way you look and you command your own self-worth. It also includes the behavior that resulted from those thoughts and feelings. It is not about weight or size. There are people who comfortable in their own skin despite not meeting the unrealistic standards of beauty in society. However, there are individuals who are easily affected by other people’s judgments of their appearance, making them criticize themselves and compare their body image with the commonly seen body image among celebrities. Unfortunately, images of celebrities are filtered, edited, and portray false standards of beauty. Because of that, women who look up to these celebrities tend to find their self-worth based on conforming with the popular unrealistic beauty standards, placing their physical and mental health at risk. How Can Society Affect Body Image? The possibility of developing a negative body image is higher on women since girls are more pressured to measure up to strict and unrealistic social and cultural beauty ideals that are often focused on the physical attributes of women than anything else that they are capable of.