Persuasive Speech On Beauty

When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? Or are your first thoughts about dieting and how to rid yourself of that muffin top? Or how much you “hate” your nose, your hips, your breasts, the cellulite on the backs of your thighs? Stop and take a closer look!

If your body image is often a negative one, you’re not alone. Women are under constant pressure to measure up to unrealistic social and cultural ideals of beauty. Advertising and the media bombard us with images of mostly youthful, ultra-thin women with perfect skin, hair, and teeth.

So it should come as no surprise then that by age 13, roughly 53 percent of American girls are unhappy with their bodies. That number increases to 78 percent once girls reach the age of 17.*

It’s Time to Wise Up

Just as we learn to develop a poor body image of ourselves, we can instead learn to cultivate a healthy love of our bodies. We can embrace our sizes, our shapes, our freckles, our foibles. We can learn to feel comfortable in our own skin. By adopting a realistic and positive perception of ourselves, we can live happier, healthier, more rewarding lives.

To improve your body confidence, start by tuning out the media messages that say all women must be model-thin and declare the natural aging process to be a ruinous fate. Instead, tune in to the wisdom of these five quotable insights.

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” —Anonymous

We are all unique. And because we’re all different, there’s