Beauty Myth - Fear of Barbies

I used to have a very beautiful literature teacher at my secondary school. My immature male classmates always came to lessons because they wanted to stare at her ass. She used to think she wasn’t’ pretty as a child and felt like an ugly duckling turned into a swan. My teacher looked like a Barbie but hated that doll for giving kids wrong stereotypes about beauty. I used to play with Barbie till I was 12.

“We will help you to loose a few pounds if you really think it’s a good idea”

When I first started my research on ‘beauty myth’ I was very sceptical and convinced that the media world has encouraged this myth in the last few decades, so intensively it developed a whole new medical care department for bulimic and anorexic women. I chose two issues of women’s magazine “Best”.…