After watching Gerren's story, I definitely think that her experiences display the effect that the modeling industry can have on people's views of themselves. When she was 12 and just starting out, she felt pretty and was having a lot of fun. But once she was older and faced more rejection, Gerren's view of herself changed. She even said she thought she was ugly. I think that the modeling industry can be very damaging to a girl's self-esteem and self-worth. The modeling industry is really a business of telling people they're pretty and skinny. So if a girl never gets scouted or doesn't have success in modeling, she thinks that she is not pretty. I do not think that the standard of beauty should rest on the shoulders of people who pay others because they think they look pretty. We are all beautiful in some way or another, and it doesn't have to be our looks.
Being a young woman in today's society is difficult. It's hard to truly understand oneself when there are outside forces, including the fashion industry, feeding us other messages. I have a pretty good sense of self-understanding I think, but it took a long time for me to get there. Understanding yourself is more than looking in a mirror, despite what society tells you. I think that today's society does have a really negative effect on the confidence of myself and my peers, simply because society always has its focus on one thing. Right now I think the focus of society is on being thin, so I feel like everyone my age is always thinking about that. However, I wish society learned to be broader, since people as a whole are not one certain way, and people are what make up society.
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