Nowadays people are spending thousands on “the best” beauty products and plastic surgery available. Girls and boys are beginning this horrid process younger and younger every year. All of the chaos going on inside the young minds of teens all over the world comes from the media putting pictures all over magazines and the internet and television with standards that are almost impossible to meet. With all of this out in the world, preteens and teens are feeling worse and worse about themselves.

Though there are more, the media is the biggest player in this game against the self-esteem of people all over the world. The pictures printed in magazines and other things are filled with extremely skinny super models and majorly muscular men. These things make girls and boys feel self-conscious because they don’t look like that. A lot of what teens and preteens think comes from their friends. When their friends look like they should be on the cover of Teen Vogue, the other teens start asking themselves, “Why don’t I look like that?” these things have too many effects on young people’s self-esteem.

All of this influences males and females to commit harm towards themselves, so they can have that perfect body. Pictures of males in magazines create this stereotype. This image of the perfect body gives an unreachable standard that most every male and female wants to reach. To reach this so-called perfect body, some males start using drugs like steroids to boost their muscles. Guys are friends with pretty much every other guy they know, so seeing so many different body types on their friends can do a lot of damage to their self-esteem, when they don’t look like that also. Then they start trying many different unhealthy ways to lose weight like smoking, skipping meals, or even taking laxatives. Teen boys are doing harmful things to try to reach the standards of that perfect body, but so are females.

Girls are like fall leaves flying in the wind. They don’t get to choose the way they go. They just go with the flow. Girls almost always keep up with the latest trends and use a lot of beauty products to have their perfect body. These beauty products cost thousands of dollars. If you add it all up, it would add up to about one hundred million dollars a month. They also tend to skip meals or use weight loss pills. They end up losing weight quicker than what is healthy and often become anorexic. Girls and boys are way too worried about what they look like and are using many harmful techniques to “fix” it.

The media that teens are looking at and reading are putting the wrong message in their head. They begin to think there is something wrong with them based on the looks of someone else. This gives the girls and boys the idea that they need to change the way they look to meet the standards of perfect. Even though year after year you hear that there is no such thing as being perfect. People still think they need to do whatever is considered necessary to reach perfection.