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How Beauty Contests Affects Women’s Self-esteem

Dec 23, 2022

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Beauty pageants have been taking place around the globe for a very long time. What are beauty contests and why are they conducted all over the globe? The importance of beauty contests and their purpose is to find, and crown, the most beautiful girl in the competition.

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How Beauty Contests Affect Women’s Self-Esteem? Beauty pageants have been taking place around the globe for a very long time. What are beauty contests and why are they conducted all over the globe? The importance of beauty contests and their purpose is to find, and crown, the most beautiful girl in the competition. www.desertcart.sg

How Beauty Contests Affect Women’s Self-Esteem? There are three primary reasons why people compete in beauty pageants: because they enjoy attention, they want to make money through modeling and acting, or they have a fondness for performance. www.desertcart.sg

How Beauty Contests Affect Women’s Self-Esteem? The attention the winners receive is similar to the attention athletes receive while competing in some sporting events. Beauty contests that focus on being fun can be beneficial for an adult woman or girl, as long as she keeps it within a reasonable limit and realizes that there is more to her as an individual than her looks alone. Many cosmetic companies are eager to sponsor the beauty pageants to promote their exclusive cosmetic products. www.desertcart.sg

How Beauty Contests Affect Women’s Self-Esteem? There are also different types of beauty contests such as those that allow girls with a natural talent for singing or dancing. Some children participate in these types of competitions because their families want them to do well at something instead of just sitting around watching Television all day. www.desertcart.sg

Some Psychological Effects of Beauty Pageants Beauty pageants are known to harm a child's self-esteem and mental health. Without proper guidance and support from parents who understand the harmful effects of beauty pageants, children can develop eating disorders or low self-esteem issues. www.desertcart.sg

Some Psychological Effects of Beauty Pageants As beautiful as these girls are, whenever they lose a pageant, their self-esteem shoots to an all-time low. The support of friends and family means nothing to them because these girls have been taught that the only opinion that matters is the opinion of a random judge. These are some of the positive and negative effects of beauty pageants that people should be aware about. www.desertcart.sg

Beauty Vs Brain If a person wants to be a beauty queen, they need to realize that it is sometimes an unrealistic goal. Most pageants will judge the women on their looks and this can cause eating disorders and other mental health problems. www.desertcart.sg

Beauty Vs Brain But, If you think you have what it takes to win a beauty pageant, then go for it. Just don’t expect the results to be very realistic for everyday people or even for most pageant queens. Do research on this topic on your mobiles and laptops and stay fit using the right exercise equipment to look great. www.desertcart.sg

The Standard of Beauty We all know that looks aren’t everything. But the fact of the matter is that people make judgments about you based on what they see. And if you want to be confident in your abilities, and not be negatively judged for something out of your control (ie: how you look), then it’s essential to be comfortable in your own skin. www.desertcart.sg

The Standard of Beauty And treating yourself well. The beauty culture has evolved from a standard of beauty that was based on physical features to one that is based largely on personality. www.desertcart.sg

The Standard of Beauty These days most people do not take much time to look inside someone to see if they are beautiful or not. They usually judge you on how well you have maintained your looks, or how good your makeup and hair look. www.desertcart.sg

The Standard of Beauty A new generation of young women is now being encouraged to base their identity and sense of self-worth on how well they look. They are told that their appearance will bring them fame and fortune. www.desertcart.sg

The Standard of Beauty These young women often become obsessed with getting plastic surgery because they want what they think is “the perfect body”. Competition between these girls is fierce, leading them to do just about anything in order to one-up their friends and enemies www.desertcart.sg

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​How Beauty Pageants Can Affect Self Esteem

Beauty pageants have been around for a long time. They take place in anywhere from small midwestern towns to major metropolitan cities. Their purpose is to find, and crown, the most beautiful girl in the competition. Women of all ages participate in these events which judge them on beauty, talent, and sometimes intelligence.

The girls and women in these pageants are dressed up in fake hair, fake nails, and even fake breasts. They’re told to perform on stage like a trained seal so that they can be judged on their superficial talents.

The problem is that only one girl can be crowned “most beautiful”. The rest of the girls go home with second prize – potential psychological issues such as depression and eating disorders.

Psychological issues

A  study  performed in 2005 found a high rate of eating and mental disorders in adults who participated in beauty pageants as a child. Many psychological experts have found that beauty pageants can lead to a whole host of mental issues amongst participants. When children are asked to focus on their looks, they can develop eating disorders and self-esteem issues that carryon through adult hood.

As beautiful as these girls are, whenever they lose a pageant, their self-esteem shoots to an all-time low. The support of friends and family mean nothing to them because these girls have been taught that the only opinion that matters is the opinion of a random judge.

The “Ideal” Pageant

If beauty pageants were all “doom and gloom” and set in a gladiatorial type setting, they would have been banned long ago by society. Advocates of beauty pageants state that they are an excellent way for young women to build self-esteem and confidence. They say it teaches girls how to be graceful losers and that the winners of these contents can have a stunning career in the public eye.

“And there she is, walking on air, she is. Fairest of the fair, she is. There she is, Miss America.”

The beauty pageant that most girls aspire to be in is the Miss America contest. It has become tradition for little girls to crowd around the t.v. set and watch the next Miss America being crowed – dreaming that one day they would be wearing the tiara on that stage.

In order to be a Miss America contestant, a girl first needs to be crowned a local beauty queen in the community she lives in. Proponents of beauty pageants state that more good than harm is done, as the local beauty queen helps bring together people in her community and move forward for the greater good.

While this type of rational is very admirable, the fact of the matter is that most beauty queens have to spend a good portion of their time keeping beautiful. From eating foods that won’t make her gain weight, to spending hours in the gym, it’s kind of hard to help the homeless when she’s concentrating on trying to fit into a size 2 swimsuit.

Brains vs. Beauty

Most pageants tend to focus on beauty, but there has been an increasing trend on attempting to judge women participants on talent and even intelligence. The problem is that “talent” is subjective (and limited to actions that can be performed on stage in front of an audience) and unless they’re given an IQ examination by a qualified psychologist, it’s hard to determine a woman’s intelligence by asking her to name the state capitol of Wisconsin.

Over the years, the standard of beauty for women has gotten more and more unreasonable. Advertisers and the media have played a large part in telling people what is and what isn’t beautiful. The models they feature in their magazines and advertisements are wafer-thin and have bodies that only .5% of women can even dream of getting.

By setting the standards for beauty so high, these advertisers create unrealistic goals that girls will never achieve. But that won’t stop them from trying – and buying the various beauty products that are advertised as something that will help bring out their beauty.

Moving forward

Plastic surgeons regularly see women with body issues who are looking to change their looks. Nowadays women think that the standard of beauty is to have a big butt, because Kim Kardashian has one and the media labels her as “beautiful”. These women often undergo painful and sometimes dangerous surgeries in an attempt to try and look like their reality show role models.

While the goals and intentions of pageants are very admirable, the negative aspects of the culture that has developed around it tend to far outweigh the benefits. If beauty queens were crowned on the basis of how much good they did, then Sister Theresa would have won the Miss Universe 20 years in a row.

Standard of Beauty

There are many valid reasons for women to be concerned about their looks. This is why  plastic surgeons  are so popular. But when women start obsessing over their looks, and engaging in unhealthy activities in order to obtain those looks, it’s something that needs to be addressed.

Women should feel confident with their bodies, no matter how they look. It’s not healthy for them to put their definition of “beauty” in the hands of another human being (eg: beauty pageant judges). The fact of the matter is that if they’re good looking enough to enter into a beauty contest, they probably better looking than 95% of the women out there.

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• 1 Coastal Carolina University, College of Education, South Carolina, Conway 29528, USA.
• PMID: 14649788
• DOI: 10.1007/BF03325019

Self-esteem, dieting, and body image of 131 female beauty pageant contestants (mean age 26.0 years) from 43 states were examined by an anonymous survey. Most (89.6%) reported being a pageant finalist or winner and 55.2% had competed at the nationa/international level Over one-fourth (26%) of the women had been told or perceived they had an eating disorder which reportedly began at 16.25 years. Almost half (48.5%) reported wanting to be thinner and 57% were trying to lose weight. Higher self-esteem scores were significantly associated with increased level of competition (i.e.: from local to international pageants), but not with the number of times the women were pageant finalists or winners. Future study is warranted to determine how pageant participation influences self-esteem, body image, and the development of eating disorders.

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• Beauty Culture* / methods
• Body Constitution
• Body Image*
• Body Mass Index
• Competitive Behavior*
• Diet, Reducing / psychology
• Feeding and Eating Disorders / epidemiology
• Feeding and Eating Disorders / psychology*
• Feeding and Eating Disorders / therapy
• Gender Identity
• Obesity / epidemiology
• Obesity / prevention & control
• Obesity / psychology
• Risk Factors
• Self Care / methods
• Self Care / psychology
• Self Concept*
• Social Values
• Surveys and Questionnaires
• Thinness / epidemiology
• Thinness / psychology
• United States / epidemiology
• Weight Loss
• Women / psychology*