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: 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. Recognition of women is often associated with their appearance even if they can offer actions, thoughts, and ideals that are better than everyone else. This makes women vulnerable to negative body image because their appearance affects a great deal about their career, accomplishments, and opportunities that can present themselves worthy regardless of how they look. According to the Office of Women’s Health, women who possess positive body image, especially women, tend to have good mental health conditions. However, the trend in pop culture and the ‘thin-ideal’ media makes positive body image difficult to all women considering that there are various body types that don’t fit the ‘thin-ideal’ trend. Because of the pervading unrealistic beauty standards, women are at a higher risk of suffering from the most common low self-esteem to complex problems like eating disorders, depression, and other negative effects on their mental and physical well-being.