Ugly vs Beautiful; How society judge women and teens by their looks

Today, in the 21st century it may be considered completely normal to judge a woman buy just looking at their picture or seeing them walking down the street, these are people that we may not even know but yet we decide to judge a book by its cover. In today's society women aren't looked at the same way they used to be many or even a few years ago and this would be because of the modeling, fashion, weight-loss and makeup industries. These are the industries that have made women so self conscious of themselves that they go to extreme measures to look like the models on t.v and pictures. Is this what society has done to us? that we can't even feel comfortable with who we are and how we look? Today being beautiful is considered being a size 0 , with a perfect face that has no pimples, no wrinkles, and every feature on the face has to be perfect. But, hold on it doesn't stop there, the body has to be perfect with a bust and a butt that is visible enough if not there's always plastic surgery right?, a stomach that is completely flat , and thighs, legs and arms that are worked on so much that there is no sign of droopy skin or cellulite. Is this what society thinks is beautiful? Is fake the new beauty?


Women who don't have the perfect bust size, the right kind of butt, the stomach that isn't completely flat and visible of not fat and legs, arms and thighs that aren't perfectly toned are ugly? A face that has wrinkles, a few blemishes and acne (which I may add every person has at least a little of) aren't beautiful? There are many models and women around the world that are made fun of because they are a little bit more curvier than the average model and woman everyone wants to see. They are being judged by how they look and not by their personality, which is extremely sad. Some women are so obsessed with being perfect they wouldn't have a problem going through with 10 plastic surgeries in one day. A celebrity that would be an example of this would be Heidi Montag. Heidi went through 10 plastics surgeries in one day to correct many things on her body as you can see in this picture: 

Heidi said she was always made fun of when she was younger and because of that she had insecurities. However, those insecurities began to worsen when she moved L.A and people started to make fun of her chin by saying it looked like Jay Leno's she said they would circle her chin on her blogs and make fun of it. As she went on to in The Hills she would hate how her ears looked because they stuck out and she called herself dumbo. She wanted to look and feel more confident otherwise she felt like an ugly duckling. This right here is a clear example of what society makes people think about themselves and what they think is beautiful. They think unless you look like barbie you aren't pretty or beautiful . 

If everyone thinks beauty is whats on the outside, does your personality not matter anymore? Will you continuously be judged by your appearance and not for who you really are? Is this what society has to come to, to make us feel bad about the real us? and feel good when we change the way our body looks? This is all because of the shows like America`s Next Top Model , and television commercials of Victoria`s Secret Models and for the matter of fact any kind of commercial. There are over 5 million women around the world that get plastic surgery to correct how they look because they don`t feel confident, however this number is not exact because the amount changes every year. But just by looking at this number could you ever imagine that there are so many women around the world that are so self-conscious that they go to extreme measures like Heidi and in the end do not even look like who they used to be.

With all the media putting us down about our looks and saying beauty is how you look not skin deep and how the media almost always want a size 0 model and make thousands and millions of women feel ugly is not right. Because of this Dove had started a campaign that is called The Real Beauty. They first started out in September of 2004 and help women and teens all around the world feel confident in who they are and not who they want to be. They also held a summit with women and teens from all over the world coming together and talking about how they feel around their friends, family and society. Dove did a study on 1, 200 girls from the ages between 10-17 years old and found out the 72% said that they feel tremendous pressure to be beautiful, and only 11% are comfortable with using the word beautiful to describe themselves. They also found out the women from the ages between 50-64 say that its about time society needs to change the way they think of aging. With more campaigns like dove there could be a lot women and teens that would feel confident in how they look and feel and feel beautiful without all the pressure of the society to change and go to drastic measures to feel beautiful.

In my opinion I think I would rather be considered ugly than be considered beautiful with changing my body because beauty is not always about how you look. You could be beautiful but still have an ugly personality because you may be so full of your self. I would rather be ``ugly`` as society puts it and have a beautiful personality. If more women and teens thought like this there would be no need to get and get plastic surgery or try to loose weight when you are at the recommended weight you should be at. Be proud of who you are because there is only one of you , you are unique and beautiful no matter what society thinks.