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Media - Meet Real Girl

Published on 8:49 AM By Aunica
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This is our generation, and our gender's biggest struggle.
Body image.
I can honestly say the number of girls I've met who don't struggle with this I can count on my left hand.
I'm not sure when the realization kicks in,
maybe sometime around 13 - at least for me.
But I think for some it's earlier.
The society we live in gives us these expectations -
look like a super model.
Be a size 0 and 6'1 (which believe me, is not even close to possible)
look like a VS model
be able to see your ribs
Be sexy
Be thin
Be irresistible.
Healthy girls aren't seen anywhere in the media.
Nowhere do you see a girl who's a couple pounds overweight,
But radiates good health and natural beauty.
Nowhere do you see girls with good morals,
because even if they do choose to, for once, depict someone decent -
they fall off the morality horse halfway through the season.
Good girls just don't survive in our media.
Whenever you walk into a store,
you're bombarded by the "ideal" woman.
Magazines are covered with what we're suppose to look like,
and the truth is - most of the time,
not even that girl look like that.
Airbrushing and Photoshop do wonders.
But here we are.
Exercising ourselves into a frenzy.
Eating like mice.
And living each day for the number on the scale,
or the pinch of skin on our hips.
This isn't how God created us -
for us to be so self-obsessed.
He made us in HIS IMAGE.
So fight hard and perservere,
Through God's strength we can overcome
this plague that's sweeping our generation.
Aunica

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