How our obsession with beauty is changing our kids by Jessica Bennet resonates with my essential question because it explains how obsession with appearance is effecting young girls in America. Girls as young as 7 are joining beauty pageants and overloading on make up and hairspray. Teenage girls feel the need to apply an inch of make up in order to feel presentable to the world and then they think that if they dont then they will be less than. What this is doing especially to girls in their teens is making them feel bad about themselves for no reason at all. They feel responsible for how they look weather is their face or body. When girls start to feel overwhelmed with body self consciousness they tend to do unhealthy things like forcing themselves to throw up and creating a real disease, Bulimia. Bulimia became very popular in the 80’s and has only turned into worse things. The most extreme actions taken from self body loathing is suicide. I know that my generation alone has taken suicide to new treat records because lots of teens struggle with this.

I think this quote accurately represents my essential question by showing just one of the dangerous of caring too much about your appearance. Girls younger and younger are getting to warped up in make up and damaging their skin or getting to into hair dye or diets. The point is they are too young to be worrying about stuff that is so trivial to begin with.

The reason why this article goes so well with my novel is because one of he main girl characters (Gloria) cares about all the shallow things in life such as money and beauty things that dont last. She waits too long and is no longer wanted in Hollywood because she is not young an beautiful anymore so girls today and even back then put too much value on being young and pretty.