Girl 1, her makeup done up to perfection faces the audience as the cover of a magazine, her body should be drawn on the cover with proportions similar to Barbie. The cover stories read: "Plastic surgery, the New Black," "Lose 20lbs in 7 days," "Size 00 Makeover." Under the model, the title reads: "If You're Not This Beautiful, You are doing it wrong."
Girl 2 stands with her back to the audience looking at Girl 1. Beside her is a table with makeup, belts, styling tools, small high heeled shoes, and a saw.
Every day, people are bombarded with ads telling them what to look like, how to dress, how to think, how to be... perfect.
Girl 2, still with her back to the audience, attempts to "look" like Girl 1 applying makeup frantically, doing her hair, and cinching a belt tight, tighter, tightest so she can hardly breathe.
The images they see tell them they are too fat, too short, too plain to be loved, desired, or respected. These images tell them that differences are bad, and if you cannot match what you see, then you are doing it wrong. What these images don't tell you is that what you see may not be real. Not even the model can look like the ad, let alone the average person. The desire to be perfect can drive a person crazy.
Girl 2 turns to face the audience revealing makeup all over her face like a child had done it, poorly done hair, a belt so tight she cannot breathe right, shoes too small for her feet, looking crazy.
No. But maybe if you lose 20 pounds this week?
Girl 2 picks up the saw and considers this.
When is enough, enough? Is trying to attain perfection driving you crazy? Stop allowing images to tell you how you feel o
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