Media Moment "US Weekly Cover and Its Message"

This weekly celebrity and entertainment issue caught my attention. The selling line "Tortured by her body" captures the very essence  of what the media is constantly promoting to their audience and reveals its contradictory message. While the media promotes unattainable standards of beauty, it is the media itself criticizing Kim Kardashian for feeling ashamed of her body, even after loosing '30lbs in 2 months'.

We have fallen into a never-ending cycle: not even the 'role model' that the entertainment  business creates are able to keep up with the expectations that they demand. Consequentially, celebrities are forced to hide from the public eye. As a result, the media creates even more pressure for renown people to either obtain a perfect shape or live through the shame of having a normal post-pregnancy body.

All of this happens while consumer women absorb the idea of pregnancy as equivalent to a 'Tortured' life. We have transitioned to a society in which having a family is actually handcuffs to a woman, and only single, child-freed women can be hot, glamorous, and happy. Sure women have the right to determine whether motherhood is the right choice for them and have a myriad of valid reasons to decide against it. The question is how deep does the representation of pregnancy and motherhood in the media influenced their decision.