Public pressure on image - serious topic of the week

Well I'm just going to write today about image. Image is a big topic of debate at the moment - does the media affect how we feel about our image? Ooh that sounds serious right? Ok serious face on. Carry on. My answer to that big question is unquestionably YES. I'm going to tell the argument from where I stand:

So as a teenager you walk down the street. On the advertisement boards and posters etc. you see adverts for well I dunno, swimwear or something. You immediately look at it and think 'Gosh! how I'd like to look like her etc." Then you start comparing yourself to her - aren't my arms fat, aren't I just so fat in general and it goes on... Then your mind starts thinking well I could go on a diet or not eat any carbohydrate etc.....

This  also happens when you watch TV and you're like oh wow they look so lovely - but I wouldn't look like that because I'm fat.

Every morning when I wake up I'm totally like - I'm fat. I breathe in and try to hide that, pinch myself to try and establish how much fat there actually is.

I now won't go out in public wearing t-shirts or anything that shows my bare arms because I feel like people will look at me and go - she's fat. Now I'm not that plump round the middle - well maybe a little bit but its my arms that I get most self - conscious about. I hate mufti days at school and am dreading the summer when we have to wear short sleeved shirts - I'll probably just wear my jumper and boil to death..... 

Literally  every time I eat something I have it before me on the plate and I'm like - how much carbohydrate has this got in, how much fat will I put on by eating this...usually I'll eat it anyway but sometimes I'll leave half the bowl and just pass it off as I'm not feeling too great!

You get self-conscious too about how your hair is, how you smell and generally how you look. So I've taken to wearing perfume and make-up to school and redoing my hair about 5 times every morning just to feel confident that I'm OK and to fit in with all the others.

Now there's a part of me that's like to I have to fit in, and then I go well at my last school I was bullied for not fitting in and teased and ended up depressed :( (talk about that another time). So then I go well it is so important to fit in because I don't want to end up like that again.

And what's scary is that all of this has happened to me in the past year and a half...I think the media influence has gone too far and is now not doing any good. I want to try and spread the word and these videos so that the media will do something about it!

Here is a video to prove the point - only very short:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lUF2zbgBXwE

And this one should make you laugh but I'm not sure whether it's real or not:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=

PLEASE COMMENT BLEOW IF YOU AGREE WITH ME ON THIS! 

or alternatively if you don't agree-please comment and explain why you think the media influence like this is justified :)