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Turn the TV on. There is a girl on the weather channel; she is skinny. Change the channel. A new series pop up, the main character is a girl with curves and she has the good-looking boy by her side. Go to the store and grab a magazine. The models on the cover do not have an over-weight looking body. The right thing to do would be blaming media for giving young girls the idea of a perfect body and also, proving them with the illusion that a body is what they need to have a good, happy, and full-filling life. But, is it really all media’s fault? In today’s world, people are misreading what media is really about, and they have started to blame it for the bad that is in the world. A bad that is changing people’s eating habits because of body†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Body dissatisfaction involves subjective disapproval of one’s own body shape or form and the belief that it is unattractive to others† (In The Eye Of The Beholder 20). There are m any speculations on why people start disliking their bodies. One of them can be media giving them the â€Å"Ideal Perfect Body†, but there is another reason of why and this is the peer influence. The peer influence can be found around the person on question, it either can be his or her own family and friends or maybe the next door girl who is skinny and has everything this person desire. Many times people tend to worry about other’s people life than their own, and they do not realize the outcomes of this single thing. Sometimes is just the feeling of not having an own life, because they want what the others have but this time it goes beyond that, people are falling into issues that are risking their lives (21). So, the dissatisfaction of their images comes, most of the time, from the pressure to be catalog as perfect which is the outcome of comparing themselves with people around them. But they do not realize what this issue can do to them, until there is no way out. 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