The majority of women will say they are dissatisfied with their bodies, but, on the flip side, many of them can also tell you what they like, such as their eyes or hair.

The beauty industry spends billions of dollars a year convincing women that they need to look thinner, younger and sexier.

Studies show that the more reality television a young girl watches, the more likely she is to find appearance important.

Students, especially women, who consume more mainstream media, place a greater importance on sexiness and overall appearance than those who do not consume as much.

Researchers have found that “fat talk”—a phenomena in which a person makes negative claims about their weight to others—is an expected norm among women and a way for them to appear more modest.

A global survey found that two thirds of women strongly agree that “the media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that most women can't ever achieve.”

Standards of beauty have in fact become harder and harder to attain, particularly for women. The current media ideal of thinness for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population.

Thanks to the media, we have become accustomed to extremely rigid and uniform standards of beauty.

Music is a significant medium in a young person’s life, particularly during the teenage years. While other media may occupy a greater number of hours, it is most often from music that teenagers define their identities and draw cues about how to dress and to behave.

Despite the popularity of the Internet, movies and TV still dominate young people’s media use (though they are increasingly watching both online). [1] Given this widespread appeal, these media may have an indirect effect by influencing how groups or cultures view body image

Women’s bodies are still used to sell everything from shampoo to chain saws, and are often dismembered into parts—breasts, legs, buttocks.

Girls get the message very early on that they must be hot and sexy in addition to being flawlessly beautiful and impossibly thin.

Social media has a huge effect on young people's body confidence, she explains, because it cannot be ignored

pressure to look good had pushed up cosmetic surgery rates by nearly 20% since 2008.

The basic principle is the same -- close control of one’s personal image using static, carefully composed photographs -- but now everyone’s doing it, creating a psychologically toxic environment of constant competition and comparison

More women than ever are reporting negative body image issues, and one of the main culprits is social media, according to a new survey of 1,000 women ages 18-40 conducted by Glamour.

Images in the media today project an unrealistic and even dangerous standard of feminine beauty that can have a powerful influence on the way women view themselves

There are many different perspectives that can be used to explain why and how women internalize the thin-ideal.

Sociocultural standards of feminine beauty are presented in almost all forms of popular media, barraging women with images that portray what is considered to be the "ideal body."

Some girls call other girls “fat” or “ugly,” and the victim starts to become concerned about their appearances. Most girls will often change the way they look, act, or eat.

Junior Emma Runge feels fairly comfortable with her body type and image, but she does think that there are certain expectations

Society expects women to be thin, perfect skin, have big breasts, and a large butt.

Some gaming studios boast their hyper-realistic lighting techniques, touting natural cloud movements as the latest features of their games. And with that kind of attention to detail, it makes us wonder, why can’t they accurately portray the female body?

These days, there’s rarely a media type that isn’t criticized for its body image depictions, and video games are no exception.

In an attempt to emulate the countless media images they view, girls often take drastic measures. Many end up with very low self-esteem; some with dangerous eating disorders.

The average teen girl gets about 180 minutes of media exposure daily and only about 10 minutes of parental interaction a day, says Renee Hobbs, EdD, associate professor of communications at Temple University.

It is noticeable that the body size of women as portrayed in mass media has been steadily getting smaller(1)