Media's influence on young girls

         I know this is kind of a cliche topic, but it's still an important one. How media portrays females often influences younger girls. Not only bad influences but their can be some good ones too.
          I think the biggest thig that is a problem is the apperances. Girls will go to extremes to look how they want or how some girl on tv or in a magazine looked.
          Watching the Victoria Secret Fashion show literally makes me sick, I don't understand how people can look like that. I watch it thinking that my leg is bigger than their entire body, and I don't care but some girls do, During the VS Show or anything like that is on, I will often get on twitter/ Instagram to see posts saying how they "wish" they could look like those people on tv.
         Sometimes girls try to make those " wishes" come true, and it usually ends poorly. Girls will become anorexic or belimic to look like those girls on tv, they will literally starve themselves because of how media portrays beautiful or "perfect" or make girls think that the only way they can be succesful in Hollywood is if they have the " perfect" body.
         Rhianna said, "Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn’t try and be like them. It’s not realistic and it’s not healthy.” I think the point she is trying to get across is that if you are trying to make it big, that focusing on trying to be a size zero will actually only hurt you. Because you will be focused on that rather than your job and you won't be as healthy as you once were.
          Actresses who look like the average girl are considered to be " Obese" in Hollywood because they aren't a "twig" and a lot of them are happy with how they look and don't want to change because they are trying to send the same message as me, that you should be happy with who you are/ how you look and if you wan't to change it that's okay just make sure you do it in a healthy way.
        Media can also influence girls in a good way too, like maybe it's how you dress or maybe the way you act? Anyway, good or bad media can influnce all kinds of people and personally I think that they should be happy in their own skin.