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February 28, 2003
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Born Happy, But Not Beautiful
A senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lesley Owusu has written an article “Weighty Issues” about body-image anxiety in order to explain the reader the main reason that can cause this problem. By giving some dramatic examples, the author proves that body-image anxiety is a big problem. Owusu goes on to explain additive – cosmetic surgeries, and subtractive – starvations, as two main categories of body image problems that people usually use to improve their bodies, but finally neither way can bring satisfaction. The perfectly shaped body, promoted by commercials, magazines and on the whole by the society we live in, in the author’s opinion, is the main and the only reason that causes the problem of body-image anxiety. I, in my turn, share the author’s opinion and think that beauty does not always mean having the perfect body.
The first reason why I think that being beautiful doesn’t always means having the perfect body is the fact that all people have different body constitutions, yet everyone has a unique physical beauty that satisfies the people who don’t have ideal body. Some people are too skinny, some are normal, and some are beyond normal. It is important to mention that the majority of world’s population is normal or above normal weight. But this doesn’t have to mean that only too skinny and skinny persons, promoted as the author of “Weighty Issues” mentions, by commercials and magazines are considered to be beautiful. If you look around you can see that those people, who don’t have the perfect body shapes like the girls from TV and magazines have, in fact, do not suffer so much
from not being skinny and feel even comfortable with their bodies. In this case, particular person’s beauty depends on his or her self-esteem; our confidence should not be manipulated by different kind of commercials, magazines or the society itself. We all are different, we...