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Unhealthy Body Image

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Clothing advertisements promote an unhealthy body image. Clothing advertisements affect body image by convincing the viewer that, you have to have the perfect body in order to look attractive in their products. For example, Abercrombie and Fitch advertisements always have physically fit models. Because of this teenagers set unrealistic images of what they believe their bodies should look like. Magazines and billboards all around the world display altered pictures of models who have been starved to a size zero, leaving girls to believe that it is the only form of beautiful. Therefore, most teenage girls become insecure about their appearance, and think that they are not good enough because they do not fit a certain image. As a result, eating

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