Body Image

Duke’s image was chosen because of its provocative nature. Presenting a prime example of the pressure girls and women feel about their own short comings, media always makes them feel they are supposed look like these unreal body models. The character Daisy Duke is dressed very provocatively exposing her stomach, breasts, flawless skin, and long bleached blonde hair flowing. She is wearing high heels to extenuate her legs and complement her back side. Her white teeth and puffed up lips are what men have been taught to desire and they criticize women that don’t fit the supermodel ideal.

With her sex overflowing on the pages she is supposed to represent the perfect female in yet another advertising ploy that is dangerous to the health of women
trying to be like her. These images present public health risks, due to the obsession to mirrors these public figures. Resulting in young girls and women, suffering from severe “eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, often with a punishing exercise regime, and overeating, typically accompanied by too little exercise”
(Gwyn Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 208).

Eating disorders are glorified in the media by movie stars and super
models. This unhealthy lifestyle is ignored as long as the woman is
beautiful and thin. There are multiple web sites that teach young girls
and women unhealthy tricks to quickly lower their weight at alarming rates. That often causes irreparable damage to their body, which can lead to death.

Girls and young women today are striving to achieve a body image that
is impossible to attain due to this type of advertisement.
Almost every magazine, music video, advertisement and television show
portrays this body image to include the movie industry. Young girls
are pressured by the media to become the image of Daisy Duke and to
feel guilty and worthless if their body image doesn’t match the
glorified model. Girls and women that are heavy or obese experience
ridicule and humiliation for deviating from the ideal beauty image.
Some women from different minorities are deviating from the ideal
beauty image, publicly displaying their full female figures proudly.









                                                     Works Cited

Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives. Fifth ed. New York: 
     McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print. Multicultural Perspectives.