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The media has created many expectations about how men and women should appear. One of these ideas is that Barbie is the ultimate example of how a woman should look. Even at young ages, girls are beginning to try to force their bodies to appear similar to how Barbie appears. However, this image shows how unrealistic that expectation is for girls to achieve. I feel confident that everyone looking at the image of Libby with Barbie's proportions would agree that it is not a normal appearance. Yet hundreds, or even thousands of girls still try to force their bodies to match this appearance that society has deemed "pretty."
The fact that women idealize this unrealistic body proportion is as real as it is scary. From an early age it is being ingrained in the heads of girls internationally that Barbie is perfect and that they should strive to emulate her figure despite the fact that it is almost unattainable.
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