1,622,290. This is the number of surgical cosmetic procedures last year in the United States.
This is quite a few. While I was searching about "plastic surgery," I noticed that most of those had or want to have plastic surgery are swayed by media.
"I want to be more skinnier, and more beautiful."
This is what most women think.
Even though TV shows, magazines, and advertisings which we see in our every day like are telling us not necessarily the truth.
They show "photoshopped" pictures on magazines and advertisings, and set up the "standard of beauty" on TV shows.
Is she overweight?
It is not even an exaggeration to say that we are "brainwashed" to crave those body images we everyday.
In my paper, I talk about how media creates a "trendy facial/body image" and give people an idea that we should change our faces and/or bodies.
Link to my final paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/75306613
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