Perception of Beauty- Nigeria

I watched a film last summer about a fat woman that feels herself not precious as her thin cousins because of her weight. During the film, she tries to lose weight by trying various ways, but cannot be successful. She loves eating very much and cannot give up. She wants to fall in love and live happily ever after, but according to the magazines that she read, she should wear sexy and be thin. To seem sexy, she believes that she should lose weight. She sees it as the only barrier accross having the perfect guy and family. Her self confidence also gets weaker in every step that she fails. She thinks that people speak behind her and no one like her when she is with her two thin and beatiful cousins. She starts to accuse them when she cannot see any interest from the guys in the holiday. Then she met with a very handsome and rich doctor, who is from Nigeria and he likes her. However, after a while, she starts to question her happiness. She doesn’t believe that someone perfect as him can like a fat woman like her that much. She cannot trust him and leave him while he begs. Then she goes to her home and look at the dresses that she bought to wear when she lose weight. She trows all of them in the street and get in depression. Then at the end of the film, she suddenly change and decided to be happy with her own body rather than lived depressed with a dream of having a model- like one. She travels to Nigeria to visit that handsome doctor with her cousins and ask him to marry with her. In the dinner, I observe that everyone in the dinner table are fat and they are very happy. Her cousins cannot see any attention from the men. As a result of this, as we talked in the class, perception of beauty depends on the culture of the society that we are living in and it is useless to be obsessive on appereance. There are more important things in the world and if the money that people spent for their appereances and in the aim of being       “perfect” to the children who suffer from diseases and hunger in Africa, it would be better for the future of the humanity.