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I Want To Change My Body Essay

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As I got older I began to discover that my body was not the same as the typical girl on the magazines, TV, and social media. The typical girl for me was the female who had a nice body, skinny, long straight hair, color eyes, tall, perfect smile and acne free smooth skin. I began to hate my body shape and my face because I was not like the females I would see. To be able to look like typical girl I began to do exercise and diet, but I never got to that point to look just like the females in the TV, Magazines, and social media. My mind was always on how I wanted to change because I was not happy with my body. I wanted to change the way I looked because one time I was told that I was fat and since then I was always looking at the way I looked …show more content…

Well I am one of those people who always see themselves in the mirror thinking about the way they look. It's not something you mentally think of, but it’s also something you usually see a change when you pick out your clothes for the day. In Renee Engeln’s book “Beauty sickness” she shares Colleen story of how she worried about the way her body looked. Colleen explained to Engeln the time she went swimming with her friends, but she didn't take her shirt off while swimming because she was worried what the other people would think of her body. Engeln states “As collen saw her body more and more through the eyes of others, she started to experience her body as an object instead of an instrument” (Engeln 336). Colleen and I had the same feelings towards our body. Since I was not happy with the way my body looked, I was not comfortable going swimming with a bathing suit because I was afraid what everyone would say about the way my body looked. I was more worried about the shape of my body than what I was able to do, like swimming with my friends. Going out swimming with your friends leads to taking pictures to post on social

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