Over the last few decades, the media has promoted the image of young thin women as being ideal. What problem has this caused? What solutions can you suggest to this issue?

For many years, women have been caged to various pressuring beauty standards, one of which tackling body types. Despite the tremendous negative impact it brings on the overall well-being it still continues to this day. There would be sets of solutions that may be implemented to prevent further occurrences of this issue. First of all, this ideology behind the physical appearance of a woman is extremely overwhelming and the representation of females in the media is derogatory. The media and fashion industry currently represents skinny individuals that influence the eye of each people and make it the standard for all of us. Therefore, this brings a severe amount of stress and compels the physical and mental state of women and girls. Furthermore, this trend sets unrealistic standards for each of us and resort to starvation to rapidly lose weight which can severely destroy our physical and mental health. Nevertheless, there are preventive measures we may place to take initiative in changing our views and implementing such to the future generations. Firstly. we should restrain from comparing ourselves to those who have a skinnier body than ours and change our views or eradicate the concepts placed on women. This allows us to further ourselves from the pressures brought by the media and society. Secondly, we should show support to those who take initiative in diversifying the fashion industry. This is due to the fact that one major impact on society's viewing is the lack of diverse body type representation that hinders women to be confident in their own skin. In conclusion, as the beauty standards are extremely toxic to each one of us, we should practice removing ourselves from the list of requirements to view each of ourselves equally. Moreover, implement change by the diversity the representation in numerous industries.