True Life: I want to be perfect

In television, there are many shows like talk shows and comedy etc. that focus on the entertainment of viewers and ratings.  However, there are shows out in the mainstream that focus on more serious topics of your average everyday human being.  These topics could range anywhere from dreams and aspirations to life threating topics.  This show, True Life, on MTV focuses normally on teenagers wanting to be something there not or physically harming there bodies for a thrill or because of stress.  Some of the major episodes that caught my attention were the ones dealing with teenagers wanting to be exactly like one of their idols and putting there bodies through anything to achieve this.  One episode dealt with a young teenager girl who wanted to win a pageant so to achieve the pageant girl body she starved herself and ate absolutely nothing but cottage cheese for two weeks.  Its sad to think how everyone in society today has this idea in there heads of what a girl should look like and not how they really are in reality.  For example when you think pageant girl, i'm sure you don't think as your first thought a fat girl or a girl with a large zit on there face.  You think flawless, tall, skinny.   Or how about a male celebrity?  I know I have some preconceived ideas about what a male celebrity should look like.  Tall, ripped abs, gorgeous smile and teeth.  Why can't we just except our bodies for how they are? Why do we have to have those cut muscles and extra white teeth.  I mean c'mon I know I love those Crest Whitestrips too, but look how fast we in society are to drop $40 bucks on a few shades lighter on our teeth.  If you think about, whats going to happen 20 or 30 years down the road when everyone is botox'd out, there teeth are as white as you can get them, they contain no fat on their ripped bodies?  Where is there to go once you've totally altered your appearance and your as perfect as you feel you can possibly get?  I'm sure someone somewhere is going to think of something, but until then I wonder............. 

-Ashley Kardynalski