Blog 12

I recently finished a lengthy paper for my expository writing class that I chose to write about body image. It was an argumentative paper, so my argument was convincing my readers that celebrities have negative effects on body image. It really seemed to relate to this women's studies course. I found so much valuable information. Doing all of the research really helped me to be more secure in my own skin. I now know everything that goes into making celebrities look the way that they do. I learned all about airbrushing, which I have touched upon before in my previous blogs. I also learned extensive things about celebrities and eating disorders. Advertisements, celebrity endorsements, etc. were all things that I explored as well. I think that my paper turned out to be a very successful one. It was ten pages long and I used around 14 sources to help support my argument. I also addressed cosmetic surgery. For the paper, I was supposed to try and find counter-arguments to my argument. Luckily, I did not find too many people that thought celebrities were having positive effects on body image. I hope that young women will have the chance to learn everything that I did through my research, and that they will not look at a magazine advertisement and think that is how the celebrity really looks all of the time. It can be such a destructive industry and I can only hope that there are more people out there like me who are trying to get an important message across.