Personally I feel that society pushes physical beauty way too hard. Everywhere you look you see shows like American Next Top Model or what about the weight loss ad's that are on ever television and magazine across America. And the shows like Dr 90210 and the many other plastic surgery shows that dominate the air today. If you want one cup size different nowadays its is perfectly acceptable to have MAJOR surgery to get it. Its no big deal. Beautiful and stunning women are rushing down to plastic surgeons to have noses done, boobs done, and lip surgery to simply get rid of what they think is dimply skin. Its horrible what society is doing. And its even worse that this is being reflected on our young today.

Our thirteen year old daughter is obsessed with the way that she looks. She feels her butt is
'too big'. She wears a size 5 pants so I highly doubt anyone would consider her butt to be big. Instead of getting a job and saving for a car, like kids did when I was a teenager, she now wants to get a job and save for a boob job at the ripe old age of eighteen. She says that no matter what cup size you are, bigger is better. She is thirteen years old! I'm shocked when I hear her talk and I certainly don't know what to say. Where is she getting all of this from? Its not from us. Its from society and television and the constant pressure to be beautiful or, at least, what society thinks is beautiful.

I just think its sad the the public is so focused on physically beauty that it no longer sees inner beauty. And I think that society needs to take a step back and see what its doing to its teens. We are placing on their shoulders levels of beauty that cannot even be obtained without plastic surgery and that has become acceptable. We should be focusing on education and making the world a better place to live. They focus should not be on physical beauty. Physical health, YES, but not physical beauty. We, as a society, should be teaching inner beauty.

I just wonder what the teenagers of society will be like when in their twenties and thirties since we have now focused so much on physical beauty.

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