Basic Information

1. The “Ideal Woman"
    -Ads, commercials, movies, TV shows, magazines, ect
2. Women between the ages of 13 and 29
3. Approximately 90% of eating disorders are caused by the media
4. the media contributes to the problem by depicting impossibly skinny women as the "ideal”
5. It is extremely difficult to escape the portrayal of the “ideal woman”
    –Because the most powerful mode of influence comes from the media, which are seen everywhere in today’s society
6. Women begin to develop low self-esteem and problems with eating disorders and exercising to fit the unrealistic idea of the “perfect body”
    –Now slowly killing themselves through low self-esteem, manic exercise, and even     starvation.