This document discusses how popular culture and media influences can lead to teenage anorexia. It argues that teens feel pressure to live up to the standards portrayed in magazines, advertisements, internet, and television. This includes emulating the bodies of thin celebrities and models. As a result, teens may develop low self-esteem and distorted beliefs about their appearance, believing they must attain an unrealistic "perfect" body type promoted by the media in order to fit in with peers and society. While the media also provides positive features, its emphasis on unrealistic beauty standards can negatively impact teens and potentially cause some to develop eating disorders like anorexia.
2. Anorexia
a disorder characterized by fear of
becoming fat and refusal of food, leading
to debility and even death
3. Thesis
In today’s society, teens are expected to
live in the up-to-date society and have to
own everything and anything that is
popularly accepted and live up to their
peers’ standards due to media influence
such as models in magazines.
5. People
• Celebrities
• Models
• Peers
• Trying to “fit in”
• Teased by their
visual
appearance
• Adults
6. How it influences Teenage
Anorexia
Low Self-esteem
Teens
Makes them have
thoughts that may
lead them to
believe something
that is not true.
7. Media Negatives
Leading kids to
think things that
are not true
Makes teens
believe they have
to live up to
standards of
today’s society
“Perfect” body
