Stop comparing

The question I would pose is “Why do women and young girls compare themselves to models”? Even I am guilty of this and it really irritates me. We all know that models and actresses don’t really look like what they do on magazine covers and billboards, and yet we all compare ourselves to them. We feel the need to live up to that status and look just like them. If we don’t look like them then we are below average or imperfect when in reality they look nothing like what the advertisements make them look like. Photoshop plays a big part in making these women look “perfect” and “beautiful” and even though we know this we all buy into it and beat ourselves up over not looking like them. The main reason I want to know why we do this is so I can stop doing it to myself. I want to stop comparing myself to these photo-shopped pictures and be happy with the body that I have. I think the reason most everyone else does it to themselves as well is because they see these bodies as society’s only view of perfect and beautiful. Everyone knows that these photos are fake, but everyone still compares themselves to them because they feel that is what they need to look like in order to be accepted. Young girls and women’s self-esteem takes a toll because they are comparing themselves to an image that society says is perfect when it is actually fake. Society’s perception of beauty is greatly skewed by the photo-shopped pictures plastered everywhere.