My body is my pride and joy, if it's not broken don't fix it.

Sisters are dong it for themselves  source: www.plussizemodelshq.com

Whenever I go through a magazine I’m amazed of all the pictures, advertisements and stories of how women are expected to look to be accepted by society. You can never go a day without seeing or reading about a women and the way they should look, young girls talk to their friends about Nicki Minaj and her body wanting to look like her. Teenagers will do anything to get her body, as a role model yes they can look up to her, but hey never change how you to look like someone or to meet someone else standards. As for Nicky who knows if those hips and thin figure are real or those of Jennifer Lopez and jennet Jackson, what if they went through surgery to get those?

Big beautiful and proud source: www.curygoddesslounge.com

Women like queen latifah and Monique Imes-Jackson those are the type of women that we should be looking up to, they embrace and love their bodies just the way they are and magazines such as plus model magazine. These women are true women and should be celebrated for being themselves as women, as for August is woman’s month that does not mean they should be celebrated, praised and shown love  because of that but that should be done all day everyday throughout the year. The media will always have something to say about women and their looks whether you gain weight or lose weight they will have something to say.  As women we may not all look like models and dolls yes that’s not who we are. I appreciate women like Hlubi Mboya and I look up to them as role models but that does not mean i have to change how i look.

 
I may not meet the standards set by the media but that does not make me less of a woman,  I love the way I look and I feel good about myself, if you don’t like it that’s your problem and you should deal with it on your own time. Women we are the pride of the world and we are mothers of the nation lets stand together and be imbhokodo yesizwe Phambhili ngomama Africa.  Your body is the temple of god so don’t change it for anything or anyone, lets love our bodies and be proud of our hips as the saying goes big hips don't lie.





On the outside looking at the inner self,

Is this the perfect woman? Source:
www.mediaportraayofwomen.blgspot.com

 

 The perfect woman in the media is it really the image of what a woman is to look like in oder to be accepted by society.

 
In the movies, advertisements, music vidoes and magazines woman are used as sex object to attract the attention of people.The media treats woman as objects or robots that are programmed to be this perfect talking heads. As woman are we  made to believe that our values are based on how we look on the outside. When growing up as little girls, media tells us that we have to: spend hours in using all our energy and money working on our image. Media turns women into these unrealistic dolls or robots, taking out the fact that we are human being: we have scars, wrinkles and blamishes, unlike actors and models who are tall, have flowless faces, and white teeth www.upstreamdownstream.org. Is our look really our great assets? I think not, as images of women portrayed in the media are unrealistc, enhanced, airbrushed and manipulated using a computer.


The society and media stereotypes women as sexual playthings, mothers, caretakers and as belong in the kitchen. A woman's standards has increased, in the olden days models and actors weighed 8% less than the average woman and now they weigh 23% less than the avarage woman.  According to statistics only 5% of woman meet the perfect standard naturally, but this is unbelieveble to some woman as they are exposed to the perfect woman everyday in tv, magazine and billboards etc . We are made to feel not good enough and once the insecurities, negetivities and dissatisfaction sets in ourselves, we give into masseges shoved down our throats everyday by media.    


The Media's portrayal of how a woman should look to be accepted by society has led to: teenage eating disorders, anorexia and bad body images www.jeanielitereview.blogspot.com. Teenage girls starve themselves and throw up after eating trying to fit into society and to be accepted. Is being anorexic and bone skinny the way women are supposed to look? A woman is not to be judged by how they look but by the qualities they have to offer. As a Zulu man says “I like my woman big and beautiful”, those are the kind of man needed in the society.