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    Stereotyping of teenage girls  in the Media

Media is in our everyday lives we read it, see it, hear it, watch it and asorb it!  Most teenage girls around the world are influenced by what the media say's and does. Magazines main focus is advertising certain products, teenage magazines are basically to do with fashion and beauty that has lots of images of pretty girls to make the teenagers want to purchase the products.  This popular magazine cover of Teen Vogue characterizes a typical  representations of teenage girls!  On this cover are sister's Kendall and Kylie Jenner who are step sisters to the "famous reality tv socialites" the Kardashians.  These girls come from a very wealthy family and have many thing's that most girl's only dream of  having.  They are both skinny and pretty with staight shiny hair have perfect skin and  are both wearing minimal makeup. They have the "natural beauty look."   The question is how much of what they look like is real and are they really this perfect?  Having images like this on teen magazine covers can make teenage girl's have more doubts about  their "body image",   Teenage girls like to follow the trends represented on the Magazine Covers.  But the truth is that it is unrealistic to think you should look like Kendall and Kylie.  The cover will be be heavily photoshoped to make Kendall and Kylie look like the dream image for TeenVogue!  Because of images like this it can cause low self esteem for normal teenage girls because they keep wanting to look like something thats "fake" this can cause thing's like self body harm, peer presure, bullyng, no confidence and suicide.  On the cover of TeenVogue the writing is about fashion, expert tips for skin and makeup ideas this is basically summing up you need all of these things to be happy and look good.   Throughout the entire magazine there are images of skinny clear skinned girls that are all smiling and look full of life.  Most teen magazines have very few images of dark skinned girls which can lead to multicultural racism; as white skinned girls are usually on the cover and this makes them seem more superior.  This is not the only magazine that has "fake" images almost every other teenage girl magazines have the exact same approach to advertising the wrong ideas.

 Here are some other popular magazine covers that show the same type of images as Teen Vogue