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There “Beauty disease” you could describe it as a kind of obsessive pursuit of perfection on a physical level. Those who are subject to it seem to be driven above all by those who are expectations (his and others) on bodies defined as perfect and therefore accepted by society.
Let’s go into more detail regarding the causes of this disorder and the most effective way to counter them, also trying to answer a question: are things changing?
Disease of beauty: the origins of malaise
Disease of beauty, in original language “Beauty sick” is a term coined by the Psychologist ed author Renee Engeln. It is used to indicate all of those people which are not never happy with your appearance is risk even your own health in attempt to reach determined beauty standard.
A weaker personal disposition can be found among the origins of the malaise. But also i mass media, from magazines to television, from cinema to social networks, they have helped to increase aanxiety social which was then translated into the obsessive search for perfection, to satisfy certain aesthetic standards. To be continuously subjected to images of perfect physicists, free of cellulite or whatever defect in an era in which the Cosmetic Surgery is the praxis, it can push the subject toemulation.
THE risks they are often deleterious for his health physics is mental. However, it is thought that also thanks to the arrival of body positivity, things have changed. But to what extent?
Beauty disease: all sides of body positivity
Right on social, a realm where the disease of beauty proliferates, the movement of body positivity. Its goal is the normalization of all those non-socially accepted bodies: sizes over 50, but also skin subject to spots, cellulite ed acne. All absolutely common, but over the years the media have tried to erase. In a short time also in Italy, many VIPs and influencer yes. I am join the cause: between all Aurora Ramazzotti, Giulia De Lellis is Matilda De Angelis.
Body positivity too However, risks falling into some clichés. An example is what happened to the actress and presenter Vanessa Meet, criticized after showing herself naked on a cover of Vanity Fair, with the aim of normalizing a body that no longer conforms to the same canons to which she herself had submitted. So is body positivity really useful? There answer positive, can be found in the route change undertaken by one of the latter fashion houses who had made it a boast of perfection: Victoria’s Secret. In fact, the luxurious underwear brand recently decided to give up its famous “Angels”.
Disease of beauty: demonizing is forbidden
One of the problems of the beauty sickness and the demonization of an body not in accordance with expectations. Similarly, one of the problems of the body positivity, as we have seen, is theremoval of all those bodies considered perfect or anyway accepted.
To start a path of true acceptance of one’s body instead, we must first of all not demonize that of others, regardless of how it appears. However, we must not even take it as an absolute example of perfection. The disease of beauty must turn into one healthy body care, learning to accept the defects and to value what we think might be the strengths.
