Whenever I looked at female celebrities like Aishwarya Rai and Angelina Jolie, I began to define beauty in a certain way. I believed you had to look and dress like Aishwarya Rai or Angelina Jolie to be considered beautiful. This affected my self-esteem. Suddenly I felt plain and boring. This affected me socially. I was no longer confident in myself, because the media had painted a picture in my head that due to the fact that I did not look and dress like Aishwarya Rai and Angelina Jolie, I was not beautiful. Also, Miley Cyrus was quite popular back then. Why? Because her character Hannah Montana seemed like the ideal “teenager” to every young girl. She was secretly a famous star, and although she was not popular, she had good friends and she was pretty. Not to mention she had an on-and-off cute, famous boyfriend. What more could a girl want, right? Suddenly every girl desired the same thing: to be like Hannah Montana. This influenced me greatly, as I began to form the ideology that in order to somebody, you needed to be like Hannah Montana. Clothing, speech mannerisms, it all changed.
The media is constantly shoving celebrities in our faces, and they promote the false illusion that celebrities are perfect, greater than life; and in order to be successful in life, you must be like them.
The media is constantly shoving celebrities in our faces, and they promote the false illusion that celebrities are perfect, greater than life; and in order to be successful in life, you must be like them.