Adverts/models in teenage magazines-good or bad?

[k8_doran]

Are the models in teenage magazines, and the models used in adverts aimed at teenagers good role models? Do children feel the need to be skinny like them, do children try and b like them as they think it is socially acceptable. there is not many larger celbs, or models.

[nicodmus]

I think they give people a misguided way to look at themselves -- sometimes unhealthily unrealistic. Sell cereal with pretty people, sure ... but don't make them think that this is the result they will get. In some cases, it's quite disgusting. Enough of that and it can give a person mental instability thinking that they don't measure up, persay.

[veritymoon]

they are terrible role models

[k8_doran]

verity moon, why do you think that they are terrible role models?

[miss_lucie]

You cant blame models for childrens image of themselves. Most teenagers have issues with themselves with or without models, being one myself i should know. Would people just prefere it if everyone didnt have a good body or wasnt pretty? just to make themselves feel better.

[veritymoon]

i worded that wrong really sorry i ment to say that the model agencies are terrible role models encouraging the models to be as thin as possible and then plastering these girls all over magazines giving the impression that you need to be skinny. did you see in the paper the girl who was suffering from anorexia she was 5 and a half stone and the modle agencies told her she has the perfect figure to model? yet she was desperatley thin and very ill!.

then you get the mags that plaster one celeb all over the pages saying how shes got chubby and need to tone up and then next week there reporting how another celeb had lost too much weight and looks illl, you cant sem to win.

as a teenager i used to read all the mags and felt very intimadated by them, but saying that they do provide good advise on other maters that teenagers need to know about.

i dont know about adverts i cant seem to think of any at the moment.