Body Image

Everyone has different body images. Some people are tall, skinny, fat, and short. Some people have insecurities about what they look. The media has its own vision of what beautiful is, and its not what an average person would resemble. Because people in the media do not look like average women... it makes me feel really insecure about my body. Although i kno that the people in the media are not what an average woman would look like, it still makes me feel insecure. I think that the image in the media should slightly change because of some of the harmful effects it has on young people. many people are outcasted because of the way they look. Many people go through serious surgeries to get the body that will be accepted by most people, and some people meven go so far as to starve themselves or deprive themselves of food in order to have the "image".
Why do people care so much about what they look like? Why do people try to make themselves look a certain way in order to accepted into a certain group? Why does every little aspect of your looks matter so much to so many people??? These are just things that i never understood... questions that no one could ever answer for me.