Teen Body Pressure   by Kali Sumrow,  Prairieville, Louisiana  June06

   It’s all around us. It’s in everything we read and look at. It’s everywhere. In our house, in our mail, in our minds, and it seems never to be in the mirror.

   Teens, mostly girls, experience pressure to have the perfect body. This pressure has been around for years but lately in our time it has increased dramatically. Every teen has experienced

 this pressure once in their teen life. The media of today is the one reason our teens are depressed and not confident.

   The way teens work today is they take diet pills, or starve themselves. No matter how many times you tell them, they think they are fat or ugly. They look at magazines and compare themselves to them. I know because I did that. I’m sixteen and I sometimes find myself doing it still.

    Anorexia and Bulimia is at an all time high. You being a teenager you think you will never come to that, you are not that worried. But this feeling can take over you and you get so obsessed you find yourself overdosing on diet pills, that you have to 18 to take. I believe we need to listen and step back and look at what we are doing and obsessing about and think.

   Women in the celebrity world are not what you think. They are airbrushed, computer edited, and surgically “fixed”, not all, but most. We are normal, non famous people. Who should be healthy and happy. We all have a right to have our own unique body. Don’t let this celebrity world change you. You know you want to be yourself, you want be happy. Being something you see on TV and the magazines is not you.

   People in our days stress over the rights of women and how are have come so far in this mans world. Intelligence, inspiration, and being mothers to our children is a respect that all men should have. Most men respect women, women should respect themselves. Especially upcoming women, our teen girls.

     I hope you take my advice and try and change yourself a little. The only thing that matters in this life, is to enjoy it while you can. Why would you want to end such a blessed gift as to be given a special body and personality?

            
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