Magazines compare normal woman to A’ list celebrities with articles about celebrity diets and ‘Steal her Style’ These articles often show no regard to the fact that a working mother finds it difficult to feed her two year old a tofu salad or that the handbag in which they are advertising is £2000, again hinting towards the fact that their idea of ‘perfect femininity’ for the average woman is also outrageously out of the question.

The picture of a normal woman on the left was published by Glamour Magazine when the editor asked;

"With all the six-packs out there, do you even know what a normal belly looks like anymore–other than the one you see in the mirror?"

 

One type of celebrity is being represented within female magazines. Tall, thin, gorgeous bodies are what we are told to aim for, these magazines help us idolise celebrities. 

However when not looking so thin and perfect these women are pointed out and ridiculed, these unflattering photographs of imperfections are put to the public to judge, when actually it is just a photo of a celebrity looking more like a real woman. 

This warped look on how woman ought to see themselves is again reinforcing the idea that woman’s magazines only want to represent one type of femininity.

“Marjorie Ferguson believes that magazines perpetuate a beauty myth. By myth she means the belief that every woman can achieve idealized femininity through the proper regimes of dress, diet, exercise, skin care and surgery. This groups females into a consciously cultivated female bond  “