Speech On Beauty Standards

I’d like to start this presentation off with a question for you. Hands up, how many of you are currently completely satisfied with your body and looks.

You do not feel the need to change any part of yourself as you believe you are perfect as you are.

OK, thanks for participating, now the people who didn’t raise their hands, why? Is it because you do not like your current body?

You feel it is not good enough?

Or is it because you feel your beauty is not up to standard or even non-exist ant?

Now I ask what is the standard?

And why do you feel such a need to fulfil it?

Some people say evolution is the reason women strive to perfect their figure and men to be masculine, because in nature wider hips and bigger breasts

They spend their precious youth scared of what people will think and trying to change or heighten their appearance.

Beauty standards are set so only these people benefit, but this world is full of people of all shapes and sizes, no one person is exactly the same, even twins, so why should beauty standards be of the same look, we should embrace our differences and appreciate and promote diversity, instead of models all looking like clones of e3ach other, the catwalk should be full of men and women comfortable in their own skin, wearing fashion pieces modelled around their bodies, not shaping them.

Mass media is very influential, and young people are very impressionable. Being bombarded by negative images of tanned, blonde and skinny to the point of sickly all-over the media can really have harmful impacts at this age when teens are already sensitive to what people think about them.

With this image of beauty in their minds, they compare it to their own self and constantly attack themselves for not looking like that naturally, not knowing it is