USA

America’s child beauty pageants.
Distrubing...i think yes. Scroll to bottom of this blog for shocking videos.
Taken from this blog ...check it out, also check this one out too!

Population: 313,232,044
Capital: Washington
Language: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%
Religion: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%
Life Expectancy: 78.37 years
GDP per Capita: $47,400


• 31% of adult women say they have experience physical abused by a male partner or inmate. Domestic violence costs more than $1 billion a year in medical costs alone; 22-35% of women who visit a hospital emergency room do so because of domestic violence.

• On average 23 women a week are killed by intimates, of all the women murdered between 1976 and 2005 42% were killed by an intimate or other family me member, 74% of all murders of women form domestic violence occur after the woman has left the relationship, filed for divorce or sought a restraining order against her partner

• An estimated 50, 000 women are trafficked the USA each year.

• Up to 700, 000 rapes are estimated to occur in USA each year

• 798 women die each week from breast cancer (second highest in the world)

• USA 2002- 42% of girls in Grades 1-3 want to be thinner, 81% of 10 year old girls are afraid of being fat, the average US model is thinner than 985 of all US women, 80% of 13 year olds have attempted to lose weight.

• US has the biggest cosmetic market at $50 billion

• Cosmetic surgery in the USA 2006- eyelids-240, 763, nose reshaping-151, 796, facelift: 138, 153, Breast augmentation: 399, 4400, Abdominoplasty: 185, 335, Liposuction- 456, 828, botox injection: 2.8 million, chemical peel: 575, 080, microdermabrasion: 829, 658, and laser hair removal 1.4 million

• 11.7 million cosmetic procedures where performed in 2007-91% of them on women

• Americans spent 13 billion on cosmetic procedures in 2006.


So why it is that American woman are so concerned with their looks, their weight and their bodies? Why do some women spend hours getting ready in the morning, or refuse to eat the sufficient amount of food for their bodies to function, or spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on clothes and surgeries? And why is it starting at such a young age? Check out these videos…

This breaks my heart, what is this telling young girls? You have to look a certain way to be beautiful. Makeup, fancy dresses, spending so many hours and money on looks…that is what is important in life? What is our society coming to? What are these girls going to end up like? So much pressure at such young ages. I want to just tell these young girls that they are so beautiful and they don’t need any of that to be beautiful or to be loved or to be successful. I just want to tell every young girl, every teenager, and every woman that they are BEAUTIFUL! We as women, have what it takes, we don’t need products and botex to make us worth something.


Thanks for reading!