King magazine is an urban men’s magazine that covers topics like sports, hip hop, celebrities, politics, and reality TV. From the cover of the magazine one might assume that it is a magazine much like playboy, with spreads portraying beautiful colored women barely dressed if dressed at all. Some claim the magazine is a way to celebrate curvy, thick, colored women, while promoting a fuller body type. On the other hand the majority of women featured on the cover tend to be replicas of the same shapes we see in Victoria Secret commercials with the only difference being a larger bust and bottom. King’s magazine and magazines like it do nothing positive for women besides portray unrealistic body measurements for real women to compare themselves to. Although the magazine is geared toward men it proposes an issue for the average women in society who doesn’t hold this idealistic body image. If the only body image being promoted and celebrated is unrealistic for the majority of the population that means the average real women is left behind. Media such as this just adds to the fact that the everyday women you see on the street is not seen as beautiful to society instead an airbrushed one in a million 34-28-44 measurement sized video vixen or reality star is what everyone is looking at.
~Alexis
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