Heidi Montag - Obsessed with being perfect

Heidi Montag is an american actor and singer who starred on MTV reality series, The Hills. She started having many plastic surgery's because she didn't feel comfortable with her body and wanted to be perfect. 

In this article with People Magazine Heidi tells them that she had 10 cosmetic surgeries in one day, including: a brow lift, botox in her forehead and frown area, nose job, fat injections in cheeks, nasolabial folds and lips, chin reduction, neck liposuction, ears pinned back, breast, liposuction on waist, hips and thighs and buttocks. She felt like she had to have plastic surgery because she wanted to be perfect as she didn't feel good enough. She became insecure at a young age as she was bullied about her looks when she was a kid.

"Obviously looks matter, its a superficial industry." Heidi said to People magazine that shows that she was influenced by the way that society and the media portrays the image of women. In magazines, advertisements and billboards it shows a 'perfect' image of girls, which makes teenage girls want to look like them and they start feeling insecure about their own bodies. But the images of girls in the media is unrealistic for girls to achieve because they have flawless skin, a perfect skinny figure.

This article is favouring 'fake girls' as it shows that the girls that get plastic surgery to enhance their features will look better than the ones that don't. This is an image that is unrealistic for teenagers to achieve as they don't have the money to get plastic surgery and will then feel even worse about their looks and probably result in dangerous dieting. The article is also favouring the fact that sex appeal in women is the most important thing and if you not sexy you won't get anywhere in life.

This article sends out the message to teenage girls that they need to have plastic surgery or take drastic measures to be pretty or be happy with their bodies and represents the fact that no-one will be perfect unless they do.  Teenage girls all over the world look up to celebrities and think of them as role models for guidance as to what to do with their bodies, which is bad because this article would influence teenage girls to think that they need to do the same thing as Heidi Montag to be perfect. It also sends bad moral values to teenage girls all around the world teaching them that sex appeal is the most important thing, not teaching them that being smart and getting a good job or going to university is important in life. This will consequence in teenage girls not thinking that they achieve anything with their talents and they will not dream to be anything important in their life. This also consequences in the fact that society will see women as less equal to men and not as good workers because of the way that media shows them which means that everyone will lose hope in womens abilitys to do things.

The reason that Heidi Montag thought that she needed to change her body was because of the  media which made me realize that every girl is effected by the image of women in the media, even the celebrities and women who don't need to change anything and are already pretty are becoming insecure. It also shows how much the media is affected women that they feel like they need to have so much plastic surgery.

Women shouldn't need to take drastic measures in order to feel pretty because they should be confident with their body the way it is but the media sends out a bad message saying that they are not good enough which consequences in them making drastic and dangerous changes to their bodies.